fisherking

My vote goes to the guy who penned these lyrics, which find his 17-year-old protagonist telling his virginal girlfriend why she should continue to spurn his advances:

Keep your drawers on,girl/It ain't worth the fight/By the time you drop 'em I'll be gone/And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life

What song is this? Try Zip City by the Drive By Truckers, written by Mike Cooley. This tragically underrated band's latest album Brighter Than Creation's Dark comes out tomorrow. Zip City is a song from their 2001 magnum opus, Southern Rock Opera. Anyone familiar with these guys?

ClancyBoy

Those lyrics are terrible.

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Grits

Paul Simon ain't bad

lin

It was no cowtown, she found
When the fairgrounds turned brown
And the stampede was over
When all the cowboys had wives
And went back to their lives
In the cool brown dust of October
But she had rode with the best
The Golden Girl of the West

It was no prom dance romance
As they squirmed on their pants
And the homecoming ended
All the guys on the team
Played her hard, close, and mean
While she laid back and pretended
That she was not like the rest
The Golden Girl of the West

She was too stone cold to fold
Until the bad bones were rolled
And it was not to her choosing
She'd been betting her ass
Hoping hard just to pass
But the dice kept coming up losing.
Just like she might have guessed
The Golden Girl of the West.

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Crash_Tomas

that sounds more like a poem than a song.

Chris Cornell, to me, is an awesome songwriter. Fell on Black Days, and I am the Highway are awesome.

so, is Shadow on the Sun, and just about every song he's ever written. He wrote the james bond themesong, You Know My Name, and that was a kickass song.

that's just my opinion.

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Malone

Dylan or Daniel Johnston.

Drive By Truckers have some decent stuff. Those lyrics aren't very good though.
My brother saw them live a couple months ago and he said they suck live, and he's a huge Truckers fan. I think it was just the acoustics though.

kaytea111

taylor swift is my favourite

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lin

Well, I was nine kinds of mean
When I was just seventeen
Already runnin on the wrong side of the law
Your old mama could tell
I’se headin’ straight down to hell
And she wouldn’t let me drag you along

I was moving right in
Like corruption and sin
Trying to figure how to get in your hair
Drivin you wicked and wild
And you no more than a child
Just a couple nights and I'd a been there .

She chased me off of her place
But I just laughed in her face
Told her I didn’t give a fifty cent give a damn
So she called up her brother
Some kind of law or another
And he drug my young ass off to the slam.

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Frabes

Sam Beam from Iron & Wine writes songs for writers. Heavy on metaphors and imagery, very much the kind of lyrics you savor.

Conor Oberst from Bright Eyes is brilliant also, though in a simpler way.

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NotSoTypical

Maria - Counting Crows

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TheSmilingGoat

im partial to dave mustain, ian anderson, dez fafara and weird al

Dr. Apopolus

Elliott Smith, hands down, no doubt about it.

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fisherking

I first heard Elliot Smith in the attempted suicide scene from "The Royal Tennenbaums." He was a pretty sad fellow, wasn't he? What about these lyrics by the now defunct Slobberbone?

So you wrung your eyes of all their tears
And you caught them in a glass
To save em for one day next year
When you're waxin over your past
And should you ever begin to believe
That the good times were worth all the waste
Find your glass of last year's tears
Yeah yeah
Take a taste

Roman_Mitic

They call me the defintion of an original, a twin blade always actin cynical.
an ecaped clinical, my words unpredictable, I'm unstopable sets unprobable
unfalliable in this style I give ya, get loud get proud, get the whole crowd
ready to bring down the house, come in put the shotgun in ya mouth what now it's fixin to be like mario brother with a pow, to loud what this sound
with my pulse pound you were downed, if I was a pitcher you'd be the mound

you like em? all freestyle, baby!

For me with Squalor

Bob Dylan! He even got nominated for a nobel prize in literature for his lyrics!
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Eminem, he sure can pen down some hefty lyrics even if its not to everyones liking!