This thread brings back a memory to me.
I was in a band where we played mainly cover material. Several of us wrote songs, though. The drummer, a good friend, wrote all of his songs from his personal standpoint. They were pretty good tunes. I brought a song called "Maria" to the group, which we played a few times until the drummer, Sean, started questioning the point of view.
The song is sung from the standpoint of a stalker, essentially. After he sings the praises of Maria and how much he loves her, we then discover his admiration is platonic, partly because her "husband is a monster and he drives a truck". The song ends with the narrator being detained by the police as he shouts his love to Maria from her front yard. I thought the song was funny, and had a good tune. The problem for Sean was the attitude of the singer...he was a rather timid, neurotic guy who is finally overcome by his passion into being arrested. Why should the guy be scared to tell her he loves her? Why is he afraid of her hubbie?
I tried to explain to Sean that the guy was not me, or him, or anybody in the band. He resisted the argument, however, and decided he just didn't like the song. His arguments and complaints actually influenced the rest of the band, and the song eventually went into the recycle bin.
But some of my favorite tunes are done by people like George Jones, Warren Zevon, Randy Newman, etc who do this sort of first-person play acting in their songs.