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nowaypablo  ·  3639 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who are your favorite lyricists and songwriters alive today?

For me, it would have to be Andrew Bird

  I dreamed you were a cosmonaut
  of the space between our chairs
  And I was a cartographer
  of the tangles in your hair
...for the picture he paints in the most calm, genuinely beautiful manner that truly defies all accusations of "cheesy."

A bit more rough around the edges is my favorite, current, personal hero, Shakey Graves doing 85 going north on 81

  wont see my baby till the rising of the sun
  Tennessee keeps warnin’ me if i booze it i might lose it
  but shine on Georgia Moon
  shine on

  yeah well its hard to see the road
  through this rain and all the fog

  well this Appalachian driving has me tired as a dog
  but this mason full of moonshine, is gonna keep me mighty strong
  so shine on Georgia Moon
  shine on

  so loosen up the lid and open up the throttle
  you wanna see the light? 
  aint gonna find it in a bottle
  cause when I’m sippin’ on a jar 
  the road aint quite so long
...whom I've probably posted here before, perhaps this very song, but damn it's good. Here's another favorite in case.