Best opening line in a song

[Sherry Darling]

Well?

 

[barlowdog]

uno, dos, tres, catorce!

 

[phanan]

You know I'm gonna quote Bruce again here.

 

[SunBloc]

I don't know you; and you don't know the half of it! - Dirty Day



(Could do a lot worse than quoting Bruce!)

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

start spreadin' the news...

 

[Sherry Darling]

Somewhere in the Top Ten should be "got brass in pocket"

I've also always liked Stevie Nick's "Rock on gold-dust woman, and dig your grave"

 

[phanan]

"In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream..."

 

[gmc]

Zooropa......Vorsprung durch Technik - Zooropa

I waited patiently for the Lord,He inclined and heared my cry - 40

I'm ready,I'm ready for the laughing gas - Zoo Station

It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky - The Fly

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

"My name is Dita
I'll be your mistress tonight
I'd like to put you in a trance"

-Madonna "Erotica"

 

[gmc]

I am an American aquarium drinker,I assasin down the avenue - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart,Wilco

 

[Numb1075]

I used to love her, but I had to kill her

 

[UberBeaver]

I am an American aquarium drinker,I assasin down the avenue - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart,Wilco

I love that line. Awesome song.

"Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face." Flaming Lips - Do You Realize.

 

[namkcuR]

I'll quote The Beatles again...

"Well it was twenty years ago today, Sgt Pepper taught the band to play"

 

[gmc]

God save the Queen,the fascist regime,
they made you a moron
a potential H-bomb

God Save The Queen,Sex Pistols


She was a girl from Birmingham
she just had an abortion
she was a case of insanity
her name was Pauline she lived in a tree

Bodies,Sex Pistols

 

[indra]

"The waitress with the short hair is stoned"

-- Keeper, Steve Kilbey

"I dreamed about killing you again last night
And it felt alright to me"

-- Via Chicago, Wilco

 

[ADecentMelody]

Go, go, go shawty
It's your birthday
We gon' party like it's yo birthday

 

[AtomicBono]

I love that line. Awesome song.

"Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face." Flaming Lips - Do You Realize.

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"Lookin' for to save my, save my soul" (or, if you prefer the live version: "MOOOOOOOFOOOOOOO!!")

"If you hate the taste of wine, why do you drink it 'til you're blind?" -Bright Eyes, We Are Nowhere and It's Now

and on a similar note: "I was drinking some wine and it turned to blood/what's the use of religion if you're any good" - U2, Mercy

 

[unforgettableFOXfire]

"I got me the strangest woman
believe me this trick's no cinch
but I really get her going
when I whip out my big 10 inch"
(Aerosmith - Big Ten Inch Record)

"I left alone, my mind was blank
I needed time to get those memories from my mind"
(Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast)

"If there's someone you can live without:
then do so.
If there's someone you can just shove out:
well, do so."
(Barenaked Ladies - Be My Yoko Ono)

"All down the streets they're standing in line
with white lipstick and one thing on their mind.
Hey little freak with your lunchpail purse
Underneath the paint you're just a little girl"
(Tom Petty - Zombie Zoo)

 

[Aygo]

"My name is Dita
I'll be your mistress tonight
I'd like to put you in a trance"

-Madonna "Erotica"

 

[IWasBored]

well they blew up the chicken man in philly last night...



no, not really. or maybe...

can't think of anything off the top of my head, my mind is blank

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

This is a public service announcement

with guitar

 

[Axver]

"There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup"
- Don't Dream It's Over, Crowded House

"Hear the sound of music drifting in the aisles
Elevator prozac stretching on for miles
The music of the future will not entertain
It's only meant to repress and neutralise your brain"
- The Sound Of Muzak, Porcupine Tree

 

[GibsonGirl]

"If you change your mind! (take a chance, takeatakea chancechance) on the..."

Just kidding. Here's a few of my favourites. Excluding U2, because I'm feeling a bit bored with U2 right now.


"Asylums with doors open wide, where people had paid to see inside; for entertainment they watch his body twist, behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
Joy Division - Atrocity Exhibition


"I was in heaven, I was in hell - believe in neither but fear 'em as well."
Modest Mouse - Doin' The Cockroach


"Please beware of them that stare, they'll only smile to see you wile your time away."
Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun


"Big man, pig man! Ha ha, charade you are."
Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones)


"The lunatic is on the grass."
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage


"Please could you stop the noise? I'm tryin' to get some rest...from all the unborn chicken voices in my head."
Radiohead - Paranoid Android


"I am the key to the lock in your house that keeps your toys in the basement."
Radiohead - Climbing Up The Walls


"Rows of houses are bearing down on me, I can feel their blue hands touching me."
Radiohead - Street Spirit

 

[elevation2u]

definitely not the best but some of my favorites..off the top of my head

"We took the crowd, you were drunk and I was loud" Michael Penn`


"Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to."
Bob Dylan

"Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night With bruised arms and broken rhythm in a beat-up old Buick
But dressed just like dynamite " Bruce Springsteen


"I wanna build me a house, on higher ground
I wanna find me a world, where love's the only sound
High above this road, filled with shadow and doubt"
B Springsteen

 

[Where'sTheLove]

"Freezin', rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again"

Evenflow, Pearl Jam

 

[Sken]

'I can't believe the news today'

 

[bayernfc]

"Well, So long liberty, let's forget you didn't show, not in my time, but in our sons' and daughters' time"
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Yalla Yalla

"The distant echo -
Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains"
The Jam - Down in the tube station at Midnight

and this one just makes me laugh everytime....
"Goodmorning Sodom and Gomorra
Goodmornig sinners
No that wasn`t your radio set on the bleep again"
(Big Audio Dynamite, V Thirteen, Strummer/Jones)

 

[liamcool]

'You've gotta be crazy, you've gotta have a real need"

- Dogs - Pink Floyd

"I've been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand"

- Disorder - Joy Division

"Breathe, breathe in the air"

- Breathe - Pink Floyd

I'd think of more, but I'm lazy.

 

[ADecentMelody]

got a few...

"My love, she throws me like a rubber ball"
--The Sweetest Thing

“You and me, baby, ain’t nothing but mammals
So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel"
--The Bad Touch

“Between an overload of information
And a struggle for pure dedication
I find myself looking for the exit sign”
--Good Morning Baby

"I drink good coffee every morning"
--I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You

"Perfect by nature, icons of self-indulgence"
--Everybody's Fool

"I'm so alone tonight, my bed feels larger than when I was small"
--Out to Get You

"On the field, I remember you were incredible"
--Andy, You're a Star

"When there's nothing left to burn
You have to set yourself on fire"
--Your Ex-Lover is Dead

"I stood on mountaintops that overlooked the world
I can't find anything except the void inside"
--I Don't Have Anything

"I'm on a roll, I'm on a roll this time
I feel my luck could change"
--Lucky

"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup"
--Across the Universe

 

[impy13]

"Spiders are singing in the salty breeze."

"Put your hands on the wheel, let the golden age begin"

I dunno