I'm enjoying this thread about the greatest lyricists, but I can't include John Prine ever since I learned about Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian.
@trixiebelden1015.bsky.socialAndy Partridge of XTC, exquisite & erudite wordplay. I agree with Elvis Costello, Gillian Welch, John Prine, and Leonard Cohen. I enjoy the words of Mary Chaplin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Natalie Merchant, & Bowie in all things, “Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow” always please me when I hear it