Songs with the Greatest lyrics...

raytreacy69

American Pie - Don McLean
Where do you go to my lovely -Peter Sarstedt
Rolling stone  -Dylan

DaveMehmet

Peter and The Test Tube Babies - Up yer bum.

happyvalley

Agree with American Pie one of my all time favourites.

up_the_valley

DaveMehmet said:

Peter and The Test Tube Babies - Up yer bum.

B side - Cannot Conceive 

i_b_b_o_r_g

Most songs penned by Mr Weller, most notable for me, Above The Couds and Brand New Start

Stig

So many, will give it some more thought, but these off the top of my head:

• Loads of great lyrics by Nick Cave, The Curse of Millhaven takes some beating.
• The Lemonheads, The Outdoor Type for its humour or Baby's Home for the surprise twist.
• Pulp, Common People. "I'll See What I Can Do" is perhaps the most sublime delivery of any five words anywhere in music.
• Squeeze, Up The Junction, and many others.
• Of Montreal, Bunny Ain't No Kind Of Rider
• Abba, The Day Before You Came

Anna_Kissed

Doctor, Doctor  by Thompson Twins

I saw you there. Just standing there.
And I thought I was only dreaming, yeah.

MrWalker

Roxette - Dr Feelgood

I saw you out the other night
I saw somebody hold you tight
Roxette, I wonder who it could be
It was so dark I couldn't see
But I know it wasn't me
When I tell you it ain't right
I know you've got to agree

I followed you into a show
The band was playing rock'n'roll
Roxette, I didn't need to seek you out
The music played so loud
That I could hear you through the crowd
You was telling everyone
About a new guy you'd found

Roxette I gotta go away
And leave you for a couple of days
Roxette, I don't want no more of your tricks
I'm gonna get some concrete mix
And fill your back door up with bricks
And you better be there waiting
When I get my business fixed

Stig

• Half Man Half Biscuit - Trumpton Riots
• Ian Dury - This Is What We Find, and loads of others
• The Jam - Down In A Tube Station At Midnight
• John Cooper Clarke- Thirty Six Hours
• Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time
• The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
• Pink Floyd - Time
• Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown 
• The Smiths - Sweet & Tender Hooligan
• Pluto Shervington - Your Honour
• Carter always brilliant for cultural references, for their best I'd probably say God, St Peter & The Guardian Angel
• Elvis Costello - Let Him Dangle
• The Divine Comedy - To Die A Virgin

T_C_E

I’m in the mood for dancing- The Roland sisters

cafcdave123

Having been in the house for for long , prodigy - smack my bitch up

church-lane

Love Will Tear Us Apart. - Joy Division

Rob7Lee

Going down - Stone Roses

SuedeAdidas

Hurricane - Bob Dylan

MrWalker

Stig said:

• Ian Dury - This Is What We Find, and loads of others

Ah yes, great call Stig.

''Home improvement expert
Harold Hill of Harold Hill
Of do-it-yourself dexterity
And double-glazing skill
Came home to find another gentleman's kippers
In the grill
So sanded off his winkle
With his Black and Decker drill''

golfaddick

We didnt start the Fire   -  Billy Joel
Little does she know   - Kursaal Flyers.
Subterranean homesick blues  - Bob Dylan

Shrew

Nick Cave - Into my arms

C_A_F_C

C_A_F_C

dicktracey

Alice's Restaurant- Arlo Gutherie.
Leonard Cohen - Anthem 

dicktracey

Perfect 10 - beautiful south

limeygent

I hope you dance - Lee Ann Womack

LawrieAbrahams

Stig said:

• Half Man Half Biscuit - Trumpton Riots
• Ian Dury - This Is What We Find, and loads of others
• The Jam - Down In A Tube Station At Midnight
• John Cooper Clarke- Thirty Six Hours
• Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time
• The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
• Pink Floyd - Time
• Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown 
• The Smiths - Sweet & Tender Hooligan
• Pluto Shervington - Your Honour
• Carter always brilliant for cultural references, for their best I'd probably say God, St Peter & The Guardian Angel
• Elvis Costello - Let Him Dangle
• The Divine Comedy - To Die A Virgin

My perfect cousin - He thinks that I'm a cabbage because I hate University Challenge. 

Johnnysummers5

In my life - Beatles

thickandthin63

Johnnysummers5 said:

In my life - Beatles

This is definately up there

thickandthin63

Spent a life time listening to great songs,one stand out chorus for me

May you never lay your head down without a hand to hold
May you never lay your bed out in the cold

The great John Martyn

AddicksAddict

LawrieAbrahams said:

Stig said:

• Half Man Half Biscuit - Trumpton Riots
• Ian Dury - This Is What We Find, and loads of others
• The Jam - Down In A Tube Station At Midnight
• John Cooper Clarke- Thirty Six Hours
• Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time
• The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
• Pink Floyd - Time
• Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown 
• The Smiths - Sweet & Tender Hooligan
• Pluto Shervington - Your Honour
• Carter always brilliant for cultural references, for their best I'd probably say God, St Peter & The Guardian Angel
• Elvis Costello - Let Him Dangle
• The Divine Comedy - To Die A Virgin

My perfect cousin - He thinks that I'm a cabbage because I hate University Challenge. 

He always beat me at Subbuteo
'Cos he flicked to kick and I didn't know.

thickandthin63

I could be here all day now,check out Vince Gills The Key to life,a moving tribute to his father

Just a few chords on the banjo that was all he new
But in the eyes of a child man his fingers flew

Lincsaddick

Holland, Dozier & Holland
Fagan & Becker
Cole Porter 
Johnny Mercer
Lieber & Stoller
Goffin & King
Lennon& McCartney
Hank Williams
Irving Berlin

 .. these and many others have written classics by the dozen, there are really far too many to either remember or mention 

Henry Irving

"You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you"

Agree about "May you never"

"Born for a purpose" Dr Alimentado

"Forever Young" Dylan

Hal David was the genius, Bert just wrote some nice tunes.

Greenie

Donegal by Jack Harris even if it’s just for this one line.
”to a place where your lips kiss away a mans reason and sing all his tempers to sleep”

seth plum

There are a lot.

'Lover you should have come over' by Jeff Buckley is one of them.