re: Greatest lyricists of all time

Check out someone I’d wager most of the folks on this forum probably have never heard of, he started out as a Contemporary Christian artist but fought to get out of that niche, died at age 40 but the lyrics on his last three albums are as good as it gets: Mark Heard.

Of more familiar people, I am going to go outside rock and vote for Tom T. Hall before he dried up after “Old Dogs and Children … .”