Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You?

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

anyone can write words. The magic is to dip them into a story, a narrative, a timeless legend so that they come alive.

I would have to go with McCartney, too many great lyrics

I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they robbed me
Of my childhood souvenirs

John Prine

Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Grateful Dead