Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You?

• The Beatles, whose lyrics are often shrouded in pun, double entendre, or controversy … The ending chant to I Am a Walrus.  I hear and like to believe it is Everybody’s Fucked Up, for it is fitting of the social state of affairs in the mid to late 60s and our current state of affairs which has made me sardonic.  Realize admitting that was the lyric would have resulted in censorship back then.  Others hear Everybody Smoke Pot another controversial lyric for the time resulting in possible censorship.  I believe in a Playboy interview, John Lennon stated the chant is Everybody’s Got One but Lennon was always the practical joker and not always believable especially when asked to comment or critique his work. I love this chant for its pitch and cadence making it stick in my mind, as is your premise, but because we will never know if it was fluke or intent to muddle the clarity to create the controversy and hide a phrase that would result in censorship.  What do you hear?   

Elvin Bishop,  Traveling Shoes.

Gonna take Hank Aaron’s baseball bat and tenderize her head.

Not sure why this just popped into my brain just now, but there you go.

@curiousjim 

Hope your wife doesn't peruse this forum!  ;o)

I don’t rank things that way. The best I can do is list some of my favorite lyric writers (in no particular order): John Prine, Robbie Robertson, Dylan, J. Mitchell, P. Townshend, Richard Thompson, J. Browne, V. Morrison, Robert Hunter, James McMurty, Lucinda Williams and Patrick Park.

From Kevin Gilbert's Tea For One, 

Caught in the pouring rain he crouches beneath her awning
And there through the screen spies his lady of esteem
Not alone
And there's rapture on her face
Within a man's embrace