'Your beauty is beyond compare/With flaming locks of auburn hair/With ivory skin and eyes of emerald

[Berni]

green/ Your smile is like a breath of spring/ Your voice is soft like summer rain/ And I can not compete with you, Jolene'

Now that, my friends, is songwriting. Lyrical description followed up with a genuinely heartbreaking but unsentimental last line that hits you like a punch in the gut.

Roger Waters isn't fit to lick Dolly's high heels when it comes to songwriting. FACT.

[Pokster]

[Peter]

Then again, what is. Who is?

Nobody

[Ashberto]

Has there ever been a more trite collection of cliches packed into a verse?

[Peter]

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m5KrPXL4wI

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

And the wants and the needs/Of a woman your age/Ruby I realise

:bow:

[Berni]

a knife to the heart - as evidenced by the final line.

It's genius - beautifully pared down and perfectly written for maximum emotional impact. Don't ever mistake complexity for quality.

[Berni]

[Peter]

Jsesus

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They'd love Bargain Store.

[Berni]

[Berni]

[Peter]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/images/c/cd/13_Downsize_David_Brent.jpg

[Peter]

Simple, beautiful, predictable and dull.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain...

[Peter]

And secondly it isnt a simile. It is mere description of a scene amd therefore acceptsble. The rain was soft, it was summer.

Comparing a smile to it is *******s :-)