songs written in the second-person perspective

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Kleenex - "You"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjQJeE79nDg

Mark G, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 08:47 (nine years ago) link

three years pass...

Bruce Springsteen - Night

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link

More Dylan songs from the same era as others cited above – “She’s Your Lover Now,” “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window” (maybe others I’m not immediately thinking of...)

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link

The Magnetic Fields – “You You You You You”

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link

Napalm Death - You Suffer

Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link

Later Dylan – “Tight Connection to My Heart”

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link

Mid-period Dylan: “Up to Me”

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link

With all due respect, I'm not sure those two Bob songs qualify.

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link

I noticed that this happens so much in Belle and Sebastian songs.

loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link

xpost
Why not – or am I misunderstanding the premise?

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link

Hmm maybe I am

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link

also - a lot of Leonard Cohen (like Suzanne, most prominently).

loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link

was gonna mention every single Pet Shop Boys song but I guess that's been covered

frogbs, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link

lotta Frank Sinatra, including Tell Her You Love Her, Come Blow Your Horn, Love and Marriage, Young at Heart

Josefa, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link

xp Being Boring a wonderful exception to the rule tho!

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link


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