Note that "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies" is exempt due to overuse.
 
I'm going with "If you don't expect too much from me, you might not be let down" as a starter. 

Hi,
 
Most of these are in Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's catalog and not playable for the average audience. The piece about the meanings in black music comes to mind, right away!
 
Beyond that Amon Duul 2 has some doozies ... like "Mona Lisa has a bird brain ... " and some seriously fun stuff on the early albums up to "Vive la Trance"
 
"(clap your hands, because you gonna die ... every victim is searching for his hangman) ... the wild beast is in the villages, dealing only in death, with his soul left behind him, yes, the raper of women, mutilator of children, the murderer of men ... better to die as a free man than to live as a slave! Unite! And fight!
 
From "Mozambique". It is a brutal set of lyrics, but sometimes, how else can you say what needs to be said?

Pop country writers (whether you go for the genre or not) write the most head slapping obvious clever "rings everybody's number" lyrics I've ever been mad I can't get close to, but I keep tryin cause it's a challenge to keep the listener's attention with the vocalist sitting in your lap for 3:30.
 
 

I don't know who they think they are
Smashing a perfectly good guitar
 
 
or... almost anything by John Hiatt

freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Delbert McLinton's Honkey Tonkin', I guess I done me some ...
I've seen the bullets in the chamber from the other end of a gun
I've been in lots of battles that weren't even worth being won ...
 
... I don't know if you'd say this was "clever" as such, but it passes the time. We Brits often gaze in awe at the philosophies proffered in Country and Western music.
 
If you really want clever lyrics, then just about anything from John Sebastian or Ray Davies.
 
jdf
 

Had to stick this in the CD player while typing.
 
 

Little Mike and the Tornadoes..
I'd rather be lying with you............than to  you
 https://www.dropbox.com/s...%20You%20than.mp3?dl=0

You looked like a princess, the night we met
With your hair piled up high, I will never forget
I'm drunk right now, baby, but I've got to be
Or I never could tell you what you mean to me
But I loved you the first time I saw you
And I always will love you, Marie
I loved you the first time I saw you
And I always will love you Marie

One night we're playin' gin by a cracklin' fire,
I decided to make my play
I said 'Babe, with my boyish charms and good looks,
How can you stand it for one more day?''
She said 'Maybe it's the skeevy look in your eyes
Or your mind has turned to applesauce
Or the dreary architecture of your soul''
I said 'But what is it exactly turns you off?''
 
Cousin Dupree - Steely Dan