unironically Jeff Mangum
Who's your favorite lyricist?
Why?
Eric Butts
>just got a message sayin' yeah hell has frozen over, got a phone call from the Lord sayin' hey boy get a sweater RIGHT NOW!
one of my favorites along with Kurt Cobain and Zach De la Rocha.
Gotta go Dylan.
Honorable mentions: Van Dyke Parks, Al Stewart, John Lennon, Bernie Taupin
Leonard Cohen.
Dylan, Tom Waits, Joe Strummer
I don't have one in specific, but it's one of these guys from the '60s
>David Vorhaus
My mind explored her labyrinth thighs
Her sundrenched body lay hypnotised
Perfumed electric garden roused female
But now the laughter turns pale
>Van Dyke Parks
Constant calm might still
Our stately union
Nowadays a Yankee dread
Not take his time to wend to sea
Forget to bear your arms
In the All Golden
>Don Van Vliet
The white ice horse melted
Like a spot of silver, well
Its mane went last
Then disappeared the tail
My life ran through my veins
Whistlin' hollow, well
I froze in solid motion, well, well
I heard the ocean swarmin' body, well, well
Jesse
Are we supposed to be or not to be?
Said the angel to the Queen
I lift up my skirt when Voltaire turns
As he speaks, his mouth full of garlic
White, yes, white
Misfortune of us two
He told you to be free
And you obeyed
We have to decide what is important
A war we never see
Or a street so black that babies die?
A system and a theory
Or our wish to be free?
To organize and analyze
And at the end realize
That nobody knows if it really happened