Perspective

This may seem obvious, but I am most engaged as a reader or listener when addressed in the second person (and I'm talkin to You). If you write a song in first or third person, that's swell, it may be a great ballad ("Barbara Ellen" comes to mind) but how is it going to draw me in like what follows?

You walk into the room
with a pencil in your hand,
You see somebody naked
and you say, "Who is that man?" ...

I have to pay attention because this isn't about the singer, it's about Me.
Ms. Dickensen is good at it too,

"Wild nights, wild nights / were I with thee / Wild nights would be / our luxury..."

Or think of Whitman,

"Oh, the hum of your valved voice..."
(I'm quoting from memory, don't quote me, quote them)

Whitman's interesting because he'll address anyone and anything: himself, trees, rocks, nation states, sexual positions, whatever.

What I want to get to though is perspective in general--it's the artist who is highly adaptable that will thrive today. She who is able to look from this side, then through those eyes, then from that hole, then from that plateau all in the course of one verse, or chapter, or song. That is what the internet is giving us--go click through six or seven blogs, reading a few posts in each place, and you've probably encountered more than seven perspectives, because bloggers are constantly citing others past and present.

What is your favorite song that has multiple perspectives projected in the lyrics?