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Excluding those who have been or are currently poets, who are your favorite lyricists, /lit/?

>> No.4111299
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>> No.4111323

>>4111288

Matthew Good
The Eels

>> No.4111331

>>4111288
gfk

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On the corner of Bourbon and Division
Rolling down the crooked streets at dawn
She said 'don't come back, all is not forgiven'
So you fall inside a bottle and a song
Splinters of thought droppin' slowly
Snapping like branches in the wind
So you light a dog-end smoke
And you're laughing as you choke
And you give the Wheel of Fortune
One more spin.

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i've always liked the lyrics on Spiderland, especially on Don, Aman

>> No.4111428

>>4111288
elvis costello is corny white bullshit

>> No.4111490

John Darnielle
Bob Dylan
Tom Waits
Leonard Cohen

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>>4111428
Glad you like his work, anon

>> No.4111497

>>4111428

>white music is bad

Good goy.

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>> No.4111512

Captain Beefheart. I'm convinced Sweet Sweet Bulbs is about Greek mythology.

>> No.4111509

>>4111497
cartoonish american white music is bad, yes. real white music (bathory,etc) is good.

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Twenty one years ago, I met a girl in my head/
She said she couldn’t cry enough to keep her eyes wet/
And they were pretty things, all crystal cold
So we walked in the streets and onto some holy ground/
I tore through all my head, I couldn’t tear through the soundings/
Of her silhouette and teeth to the sweetest degree/

Now summer’s over darling and I can only sleep/
But lately I’ve been wondering with all the world beneath/

Twenty one years ago, I met the ghost of a ghost/
She had a hazy heart and pretty spots under her clothes/
And I could see them there creeping out of her sleeves/
She smoked her cigarettes, I watched her color TV/
We both tried to forget that life is all what it seems/
Just creatures caught up in all there own tragedies/

Now all this glassy wandering may break so easily/
But lately I am drifting with all the world beneath me/

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Caught between the twisted stars
the plotted lines the faulty map
that brought Columbus to New York

>> No.4111595

Dan Barrett.

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yall fucked up
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