Metaphor Songs

There is a type of song I've noticed that I particularly like, to wit: songs that feature a lot of parallel (in some sense) metaphors. I've noticed this largely through KSAL, so I have a feeling that Sally likes them as well. Some examples:

Leonard Cohen's "Is This What You Wanted?"

You were Marlon Brando,
I was Steve McQueen.
You were K.Y. Jelly,
I was Vaseline.
You were the father of modern medicine,
I was Mr. Clean.
You where the whore and the beast of Babylon,
I was Rin Tin Tin.

Or how about "If You Were a Bluebird," of which there are many versions (Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Emmylous Harris...)

If you were a hotel
Honey, you'd be a grand one
But, if you hit a slow spell,
Do you think you could stand one
If you were a hotel,
Well I'd lean on your doorbell
I'd call you my home

If I was a highway,
I'd stretch alongside you
I'd help you pass by ways
That had dissatisfied you
If I was a highway,
Well I'd be stretchin'
I'd be fetchin' you home

Or there's Butch Hancock's "Like a Kiss on the Mouth", which I'll give a good chunk of lyrics for (especially since I can't find it on Youtube):

A sky full of fire wheels a-burnin' my heart
A handful of moon beams a-stretchin' my eyes
A woman on the mountain says I gotta lay low
And a woman on the river says the water's gonna rise
And the Earth's gonna shake, the sky's gonna fall
The sad face 'n the glad face are painted on the wall
One's a cryin' in the North
And one's a smilin' in the South
Your love sticks with me like a kiss on the mouth

There's a big city wind whistlin' at the women
A sign above the back door about to blow down
The woman in the alley wants me to hurry up
And the woman on the highway wants me to slow down

And the Earth's gonna shake, the sky's gonna fall
The freight plane and the jet plane are painted on the wall
One rollin' North, one flyin' South
Your love sticks with me like a kiss on the mouth

The farmer's from Dallas and the freak is from Frisco
The wino's from nowhere and the cook's from Japan
The woman at the window, she waves without thinkin'
And the woman by my side got my heart in her hand

And the Earth's gonna shake and the sky's gonna fall
The red bird and the blue bird are painted on the wall
One flyin' North and one flying South
Your love sticks with me like a kiss on the mouth

Obviously some artists are much more prone to writing songs like these than others, and I think they tend to be the kind of folksy, verbose songwriters that I often like. John Denver's "Annie's Song" is a simpler version of the same thing - I like the song, lthough I'm not sure it hits this precise button, since it's not very clever:

You fill up my senses
like a night in the forest
like the mountains in springtime,
like a walk in the rain
like a storm in the desert,
like a sleepy blue ocean
you fill up my senses,
come fill me again.

Incidentally, I have a strong tendency to hear the John Denver lyric as "like a knight in a forest," which is a much richer idea for me, though I realize it isn't very Denver-like.