Hey man, lyrics arnt gone man, the problem is the man and his war macheine MTV are weak against meaningful lyrics. and since 99% of people are slaves to the MTV media circus, and survive off of the mush fed to them by their coprate gods, they have followed suit. With their power chords and crappy feel sorry for me im a loser lyrics, the are killing rock n roll for the survivors of Censorship and Intellect. My advice is, listen to the old stuff. but if oyu are hell bent on good lyrics these days check out
Bright Eyes,Connar Oberst is like The Doors (thats right, all of them) of underground indie folk. Anyway, keep sticking it to the man, and remeber, be excellent to each other, and party on dude!