Under the guise of first person, many artists sing about things they haven't actually experienced. Sometimes their lyrical fabrications are eerily precise, but mostly painfully unconvincing. This list is meant to memorialize both the bold liars and the genuinely imaginative.
1. Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"
2. Smashing Pumpkins - "We Only Come Out at Night"
3. Fiona Apple - "Criminal"
4. Tori Amos - "Happy Phantom"
5. P. Diddy - "Bad Boy For Life"
6. Ben Folds - "Not the Same"-
7. Beastie Boys - "Paul Revere"
8. TV on the Radio - "Ambulance"
9. Marcy Playground - "Pigeon Farm"
10. Brian Howard - "The Butterfly Song"
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