James Mercer of The Shins and Broken Bells writes the most goddamn lovely lyrics I've ever heard:

  Of all the churning random hearts under the sun
  eventually fading into night, 
  these two are opening now,
  as we lie I touch you, wonderful alive.

I am also partial to Will Sheff of Okkervil River's incredibly emotive lyrics:

  Lover, now that you've left me, I'm glad you're unlovely. 
  Because if you could take all the heat in your heart and just hang it from you,
  I wouldn't be able to bear the way you cannot love me. 
  It's much easier of me make a monster out of you. 

  And so here I go, substituting the glow from your temples,
  all our sighs and our trembles, and each last letter sent you 
  from the cheap little pen of this weak little man
  - the one singing - out his jangling, ringing 
  and hopefully stinging attack upon you. 

..and speaking of emotive, Jeff Magnum:

  
  Little boy born without a mother or a father 
  Taken to the river and then pushed into the water 
  And the priests are singing that the hell was getting hotter 
  Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him 
  From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him 
  Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him 
  From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him 

  And here beneath the water I can see 
  How the light distorts so strange 
  And this is how I would like to leave my body 
  And start again