Really good article over at the BBC on Glen Campbell and the song "Wichita Lineman" (
http://www.bbc.com/news/e...inment-arts-40861326). A couple of things in there I had never heard before was that Jimmy Webb never "finished" the song. He sent it over to the studio before he could write a third verse.
Also, he hated the line "I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time. And the Wichita Lineman, is still on the line." Webb said he initially considered that famous couplet "the biggest, awfulest, dumbest, most obvious false rhyme in history". Over the years, he realized his discomfort over the rhyme had blinded him to the words' raw power. "Had I known what I was doing, I wouldn't have written that line. I would have found a way to make it rhyme," he told NPR in 2010. "It was only years later that I became aware of what a songwriter was even supposed to do. I was really just a kid who was kind of writing from the hip and the heart."