Does SYW showcase his best lyrics yet? I mean, if you read over all the lyrics to his songs on SYW, they are PHENOMINAL!! Of course, like Carne says, there is beauty in simplicity (ala Family Man), but when he writes things like "Saw your face yesterday, thinkin' on the days of old, and the price that we paid, for a love we couldn't hold" or "All the saints and sinners, they pay handsomely, MSCAE, they make the weapons and they run the prisons and they sell the justice, cuz, cuz bein' guilty is just good business.." to quote a couple, it makes you go "WOAH, he's writing something STRONG here!!" I mean, GYOW is a CLASSIC song, and it's powerful lyrically, but this group of songs KNOCK you OUT!!
Red Rover's lyrics just absolutely KILL ME too!! There's SOOO many different interps on this song, so many facets to it...it is EXQUISITE!!