Yes, a pop song in the early sixties had to be about "loving you", or it risked being labled as a novelty song. All that the lyrics were expected to do was to fit the music - if they made sense as well, that was a bonus.
You make a good point about the pseudo profound;" You are my own titanic" is wonderful, but I imagine you just made it up, right?
Not much better are these words that ELP used to ruin an otherwise decent song called
Take A Pebble. The way the singer delivers these gems of wisdom is like,"This is second only in gravity to Moses passing on the word of God"...
Quote:
Shread of our memories are lying on your grass;
Wounded words of laughter are graveyards of the past.
Photographs are grey and torn, scattered in your fields
Letters of your mem'ries are not real.
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EDIT: quite right about the editing, Briks !