which artist writes lyrics that are the closest to actual poetry?

>>68262594
Twenty one Pilots :DDDD

Blixa Bargeld and Leonard Cohen.

depeche mode

leonard cohen

>>68262594
Death Grips
21 Savage
Young Thug

>>68262594
bob dilan

>>68262625
Leonard Cohen's "poetry" isn't even poetry

"Are we supposed to be or not to be?"
Said the angel to the Queen
I lift up my skirt and Voltaire turns
As he speaks, his mouth full of garlic

White, yes, white
Miss fortune of us two
He told you to be free
And you obeyed

We have to decide which is important
A war we never see or a street so black
Babies die, a system and a theory
Or our wish to be free

To organize and analyze
And at the end realize
That nobody knows
If it really happened

>>68262594
Issac Brock

Robin Pecknold can write some beautifully poetic songs

ian curtis

Dan Bejar

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mr. shankly

>>68263113
This, Krug is cool too

None because songwriting and poetry are completely different things and shouldn't be compared

If you want some sort of answer, just listen to spoken word and jazz poetry.

>>68262929
ew

David Berman

http://www.stereogum.com/1902185/the-untold-story-of-silver-jews-the-natural-bridge-how-david-berman-lost-his-mind-left-pavement-behind-and-made-a-masterpiece/franchises/sounding-board/

lyrics =/= poetry

not to dismiss the quality of great lyricists but poetry really isn't the same as lyrics though there is a lot of overlap. Line breaks or using free verse seem to be unique to poetry. Lyrics are meant to be sung/rapped/etc by a vocalist to enunciate its meaning while many poems are not always meant to be performed by a speaker

iirc Lil Ugly Mane's last album Oblivion Access has his lyrics written in poetic form so there's that

>>68263527
Line breaks and free verse are used often enough in song that they can't be stated to be exclusive to poetry, and a poem does not become any less of a poem when set to music. You don't listen to enough music.

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The great truth is there isn't one
And it only gets worse since that conclusion
The irony of being an extension to nothing
And the force of inertia is now a vital factor

And there is despair underneath each and every action
Each and every attempt to pierce the armour of numbness
Burning bridges becomes a habit to support
And the front line expands like there's no tomorrow

I envy the maggots
Their stuff at least sticks together
Better than laudations of misinformed seers
And those are lengthy annals of shame that we work with

It's like dumping dead meat at the brink of Styx
With a barge that we made of what was left of Yggdrasil
After veterans of spiritual revolts were done with their armchairs
And I don't even remember which brink is which

The odour of sanctity is just refined stench of existence
Shining pearl of Augeas' crown pales in comparison

And there is despair underneath each and every action
Each and every attempt to pierce the armour of numbness
Burning bridges becomes a habit to support
And the front line expands like there's no tomorrow

The grotesque eagles of misfortune, well fed on thanatos, sit still
It's the dignity of scavengers at the ever growing garbage dump of life

There is something about the rigid posture of a proper, authentic blind
As if extended arms reached to pass his blindness onto others

>>68262594
Gil Scott-Heron

>>68262594
write lyrics down and they're actual poetry

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>>68262594

Joanna Newsom obviously

>>68263659
Lyrics always have to be set to music to be fully evaluated though while poetry requires silence. You can use line breaks or ignore them in lyrics but its meaning will still be the same. You can't do that with poetry otherwise the meaning will shift. What makes lyrics interesting and different is how they operate under different musical ideas.

>poem does not become any less of a poem when set to music
I agree with you here, but I think that's just a different way to experience poetry rather than its original purpose

>>68263113
>I wrote a song for america

Keith Richards

just has to be Leonard Cohen

Dylan kind of works, but all his stuff when read as lyrics only will have that backported feel where you know they were lyrics originally. Maybe Randy Newman, but he is more of a genius song writer who puts a lot of meaning into his lyrics, but I don't think his texts work as well as written poems.

Paul Simon is actually not too bad. Then you have your "street poets" like Gil Scott-Heron who pioneered rappingm but I don't think you're looking for stuff in that direction because their poetic material was always not really written to be sung in the traditional sense.

Joanna Newsom gets a honorary award. Also Joni Mitchell - I don't know if her meter works as poetry, but she always had a very poetic way of phrasing things..

Elias Ronnenfelt

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>>68263715
mah nigga

>>68264023
just because I feel like it, I feel like puffing up Randy Newman some - his meter makes it obvious these are songs to sing, but shits poetic as well

The Great Nations of Europe
Had gathered on the shore
They'd conquered what was behind them
And now they wanted more
So they looked to the mighty ocean
And took to the western sea
The great nations of Europe in the sixteenth century

Hide your wives and daughters
Hide the groceries too
Great nations of Europe coming through

The Grand Canary Islands
First land to which they came
They slaughtered all the canaries
Which gave the land its name
There were natives there called Guanches
Guanches by the score
Bullets, disease, the Portugese, and they weren't there anymore
Now they're gone, they're gone, they're really gone
You've never seen anyone so gone
They're a picture in a museum
Some lines written in a book
But you won't find a live one no matter where you look

Hide your wives...

Columbus sailed for India
Found Salvador instead
He shook hands with some Indians and soon they all were dead
They got TB and typhoid and athlete's foot
Diptheria and the flu
Excuse me - Great nations coming through

Balboa found the pacific
And on the trail one day
He met some friendly Indians
Whom he was told were gay
So he had them torn apart by dogs on religious grounds they say
The great nations of Europe were quite holy in their way

Now they're gone, they're gone, they're really gone
You've never seen anyone so gone
Some bones hidden in a canyon
Some paintings in a cave
There's no use trying to save them
There's nothing left to save

Hide your wives...

From where you and I are standing
At the end of a century
Europes have sprung up everyone as even I can see
But there on the horizon as a possiblity
Some bug from out of Africa might come for you and me
Destroying everything in its path
From sea to shining sea
Like the great nations of Europe
In the sixteenth century

>>68263890
>cherry-picking

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folding… folding hues folding deep thin air devoured its seeding
a droplet sears the stillness of space dissolved
carry a flicker wavers its light breath seeping through shapes solved heaving about shade after been shaved
gentle, swimming, formless
nature of nature, busting in flames
growing, silent fury of element glowing, eternity ripples reaching for capture
found… oxygen, needy of… oxygen
folding hues of perfect white silk in flowing
a gentle yellow overlaps a pole vault silhouette past
dancing edges orange by fusing the warmth glimmers
casing of winds spinning shadows between the fragile brilliance of its shed and passionate tear
doused, roaring tender toward immortal brakes
replenished to brinks
disappeared prisoner to its purity, and nothing more
prisoner to its pure

>>68264151
Mgła is life

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Lungfish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3URbQSw3jEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPFhMWpYvoo

>>68262594
Seth Putnam

Hotel Books comes to mind.

>>68264259
I wrote meaningless pseudo-poetry exactly like this my sophomore year of high school.

Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou

>/mu/ thinks poetry has to be deep to be good

Runny nose and runny yolk
Even if you have a cold still
You can cough on me again
I still havent had my fulfill

In the someday what's that sound?

Broken heart and broken bones
Think of how a castrated horse feels
(Alt: Think about some capsules of horse pills)
One more quirky cliche'd phrase
You're the one I wanna refill

In the someday what's that sound?

[Spoken interlude in middle]

Most people don't realize
That two large pieces of coral,
Painted brown, and attached to his skull
With common wood screws can make a child look like a deer

>>68265122
no one has said this. post something you'd consider good and not deep.

ITT: people too stupid for scansion

>>68265416
I got that impression by the looks of the lyrics pasted here, not necessarily the lyricists named here

Something good but not deep would be Gold Day by Sparklehorse

>>68262601
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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>>68266888

Mark E Smith

Kris Kristopherson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoSHIUmpF6M
dat imagery

And Dylan obviously.

nick cave

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>>68267109
lmao just lmao

>>68262594
joy division