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littletrimble  ·  3397 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who are your favorite lyricists and songwriters alive today?

Conor Oberst, the lead singer of Bright Eyes, is an amazing writer.

Lua

    And I know you have a heavy heart; /I can feel it when we kiss/ So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it/ But me I'm not a gamble you can count on me to split /The love I sell you in the evening, by the morning won't exist.

A Perfect Sonnet

    Lately I've been wishing I had one desire/ Something that would make me never want another/ Something that would make it so that nothing mattered/ All would be clear then/ But I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief moments/ And watch it all dissolve into a single second/ And try to write it down into a perfect sonnet/ Or one foolish line