Most poetic lyrics in Richard Goldstein's The Poetry of Rock (1969)

I'm torn between 'Eight Miles High', 'Suzanne', and 'Wonderful'. the two Dylan lyrics are great, but they don't look so impressive on the printed page, imho. it's interesting how the author favors lyricists who are generally considered lightweight in 2015. did rock fans regard John Sebastian and John Phillips as serious 'song-poets' in 1969? I don't necessarily disagree with his assessment (relative to some of his other inclusions, at least), but they definitely haven't been mythologized to the same extent as Dylan and Morrison.

One thing I know for sure, it's not "Motorcycle Irene" by Moby Grape.

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Funny, I just loaned this book to a friend a few weeks ago in advance of a podcast he did with Goldstein (quite good, as it turned out; Goldstein has some amazing stories, like the Velvet Underground playing his wedding after-party in exchange for--long-gone, I think--liner notes he wrote for the first album). As I flipped through the book before the loan, I started thinking that back then, with no internet, Goldstein probably had to sit down and transcribe all the lyrics by hand.

I was wrong. When I glanced at the intro, he got most of them from sheet music courtesy of the record labels.

In answer to the question...I'm not very good at detaching lyrics from the song itself. My favourite songs here are "Substitute," "Desolation Row" (but not "Sad-Eyed Lady"), "Eight Miles High," "Norwegian Wood," "Darling, Be Home Soon," "Feelin' Groovy," and, from the omissions, "Almost Grown." So one of those. I think "Norwegian Wood" is very poetic.

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Today's rock partisan - plugged into a stereophonic nirvana - is more likely to arch his eyebrows than his pelvis. He may casually remark, with a gleam in his hookah, "I empathize with it. It has truth and beauty. Besides, my kids say it's psychedelic."