labdad’s got it pegged. Steve Earle writes GREAT first person stuff… Billy Austin, The Other Kind, Over Yonder… all awesome. Also a special nod to Kris Kristoferson (sp?) for Sunday Morning Coming Down… Shawn Mullins’ cover is my favorite… awhich reminds… Shawn writes excellent first person stuff too… Twin Rocks, Oregon, springs to mind, but there are many
I rather like the Misfits “Last Caress”
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/misfits/lastcaress.html (sorry I didn’t make some of the text the link. It’s my first time posting with this new format and I am confused. And frightened)
Also, Tool’s “Jerk-Off”; Slipknot’s “My Plague” and “Wait and Bleed”; Metallica’s “Fuel” and “Master of Puppets” and pretty much any of their other songs with “I” or “me” in them
“So here I’m sitting in my car at the same old stoplight.
I keep waiting for a change but I don’t know what.
So red turns into green turning into yellow,
While I’m just frozen here on the same old spot.
And all I have to do is to press the pedal.
But I’m not.”
– Aimee Mann, It’s Not.
10cc’s “I’m Not in Love”:
I keep your picture, up on my wall
It hides a nasty stain that’s lying there
So don’t you ask me to give it back,
You know it doesn’t mean that much to me
…
and the J. Geils Band’s “Angel is the Centerfold”:
*Slipped me notes under the desk
While I was thinkin’ about her dress
I was shy – I turned away
Before she caught my eye
I was shakin’ in my shoes
Whenever she flashed those baby-blues
Something had a hold on me
When angel passed close by*
Hey, my first CS post. I love song lyrics, I’m tone deaf so if the lyrics don’t move me the music hasn’t a chance.
“I don’t want whats best for you
where will I be when you’ve found it”
-Indigo Girls “Caramia”
“it took a long time to
become the thing I am to you
and you won’t tear it apart
without a fight without a heart”
-Indigo Girls “Become You”
“This fool’s halfway to heaven and just a mile out of hell
And I feel like I’m coming home”
-Springsteen "Better Days
I have become comfortably numb . . .
–Pink Floyd.
Also springing to mind is N.I.B. from Black Sabbath:
Look into my eyes, you’ll see who I am/
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand.
Well, whadja expect from a guy named Mephisto? 
‘What if I could go to sleep for days; would you count the hours. Or would your restlessness consume, faded memories of me.’ AFI - At a Glance
‘I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you, plugged in and ready to fall.’ Alkaline Trio - Radio
‘But I’m not quite sure what you’ve been told/this unfolds…
On labor day I’m not starting with you but the faint of heart.’ Coheed & Cambria - The Velorium Camper I: The Faint of Hearts
And many more but those are some from songs I’ve been listening to recently.
“I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold.”
- Fiona Apple “Paper Bag”
John Prine’s Angel From Montgomery.
I am an old woman
Named after my mother
My old man was another
Child that’s grown old
If dreams were lightning
And thunder was desire
This old house would have burned down
a long time ago
*
How about Simon and Garfunkel’s Homeward Bound?
Two from Ben Gibbard:
I’m thinking it’s a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images and when we kiss
They’re perfectly aligned
-“Such Great Heights,” The Postal Service
I put on my overcoat
And walked into winter, my teeth chattered rhythms
And they were grouped in twos or threes
Like a morse code message
That’s sent from me to me
-“I Was a Kaleidoscope,” Death Cab for Cutie
From the Tim Rice/Benny Andersson/Bjorn Ulvaeus musical “Chess”, “Someone Else’s Story”:
Long ago, in someone else’s life time, someone with my name
Who looked a lot like me.
Came to know a man and made a promise, he’d only have to say
And that’s where she would be.
Lately, although the feelings run just as deep.
The promise she made has grown impossible to keep.
It’s a masterpiece.
From Bob Seger’s - Against The Wind
Woahh…where did that sig come from?
I must have put that in there years ago! Wonder what it means?
“you were pumping iron, while I was pumping irony.”
-Robert Plant in “Heaven Knows”
This is my favorite because I believe its the worst song lyric ever written.
“Please alow me to introduce myself,
i’m a man of wealth and taste.
i’ve been around for a long long year,
stole many a mans soul and faith.”
Rolling Stones- Sympathy for the Devil
personal favorite of mine.
“…and the screaming filled my head all day.” Great lyrics, great band.
I have to concur with Sam Stone: just about anything in the first person by Simon and Garfunkel is moving. “I Am a Rock,” “The Boxer,” “The Sound of Silence”: classics all.
Ieeeeeeeeeeeeee…
Wanna beeeeeeee…ya
Anarchy.
Or in a different vein:
No-one knows what it’s like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
That’s When I’ll Reach For My Revolver by Mission of Burma
or
*I Don’t Wanna Grow Up * by Tom Waits
Perhaps Man in Black by Johnny Cash?
“As I walk through this wicked world, searching for light in this darkness of insanity, I ask myself is all hope lost? Is there only pain, and hatred, and misery?”
-From “(What’s so Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding,” written by Nick Lowe
Jackson Browne has been writing kick-ass first person lyrics for 30+ years. The one that always gets me, from Sky Blue and Black:
You’re the hidden cost and the thing that’s lost
In everything I do.
And I’ll never stop looking for you.