Pink Floyd's "Fearless" - my analysis

1. The songwriter's words are usually transcribed by someone else:
1. Internet lyrics are often wrong;
2. Lyric sheet are often wrong;
3. Sheet music is often wrong.
4. Two things to remember are:
1. "In the Garden of Eden baby..."
2. "Mares eat oats and does eat oats but little lambs eat ivy"
2. Singers don't always sing the 'right' words:
1. Sometimes the written words won't scan so the singer changes them
1. They'll substitute a different word;
2. They'll blur two words together;
3. They'll omit a syllable or two.
2. Sometimes they simply forget the right word
3. Sometimes they sing a line from a different verse
4. Sometimes they can't remember the song at all
1. They'll refresh their memories from the Internet, lyric sheets or sheet music [see 1.1-1.3 above];
2. They'll make new stuff up instead;
3. They'll take guess.
3. Sometimes you just have to listen to recordings of the song and make up your own mind.
4. Most songwriters are not literary geniuses.
5. Most songwriters are not great poets.
6. Most songwriters don't make perfect rhyming couplets but lean heavily on near or imperfect rhymes.
7. Most songwriters are not deep thinkers or philosophers.
8. Sometimes a pop song is just a pop song.
9. If you look for a deeper meaning you'll find one.

Notice that the song starts in the first person singular in that it is written from the perspective of the singer, and the protagonist is in the second person (singular or plural - "things you said" ect.). This changes to the third person in the second verse ("the idiot" and "the magistrate") before concluding in the second person singular ("you rise above") with the protagonist being the first person singular ("his brow").