Best Lyric Writers of the last 50 Years

mad4city said:
Dylan - by a country mile, Dylan.

There have been some great names mentioned, so far - and some that haven't (Paul Brady, Tom Waits, John Prine, Mary Gauthier, Todd Snider etc etc) but Bob is something else again.
Like a Rolling Stone, alone has had two books written about it.
His lyrics are on the curriculum of more than a dozen countries' second level schools and have been accepted a third level since Oxford was the first to do so in the early 80's.
I'm not sure any other lyricist can match that recognition by the academic establishment.
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Simply this.
 
Neil Peart
Pete Townshend
David Bowie
Michael Lee Smith
Bruce Springsteen
Jim Steinman
Steve Earle
John Mellencamp
Warren Zevon
Marc Bolan
Sandy Pearlman / Donald Roeser… (Blue Oyster Cult)
Don Henley
Joe Walsh
Ian Anderson
Bruce Springsteen
Neil Young
Bernie Taupin
Ray Davies
Bob Dylan
Lennon / McCartney
Alex Turner
Lou Reed
Roger Waters
 
Shadows are fallin' and I've been here all day
It's too hot to sleep and time is runnin' away
Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
There's not even room enough to be anywhere
It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writin' what was in her mind
I just don't see why I should even care
It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

Well, I've been to London and I been to Paris
I've followed the river and I got to the sea
I've been down on the bottom of the world full of lies
I ain't lookin' for nothin' in anyone's eyes
Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear
It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

I was born here and I'll die here against my will
I know it looks like I'm movin' but I'm standin' still
Every nerve in my body is so naked and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer
It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

Dylan
 
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