"When the armies of emotion go out to fight"--you don't get much more poetic lyrics than that.
Nick's lyics are very deep and very intelligent, but also very accessible.
Other singers get the depth and the intelligence (Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Damien Rice)--but often times their lyrics are much more subjective and open-ended, whereas with Nick, I get the feeling that he wasn't just experimenting with rhyming, or trying to say a social/political message--he had a personal message that he wanted (needed!) to express...
And that's why he's such a beautiful artist, and such a deserving-of-praise songwriter
"When the armies of emotion go out to fight"--you don't get much more poetic lyrics than that. Nick's lyics are very deep and very intelligent, but also very accessible. Other singers get the depth and the intelligence (Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Damien Rice)--but often times their lyrics are much more subjective and open-ended, whereas with Nick, I get the feeling that he wasn't just experimenting with rhyming, or trying to say a social/political message--he had a personal message that he wanted (needed!) to express... And that's why he's such a beautiful artist, and such a deserving-of-praise songwriter