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What are some of your favorite opening lines to songs?

Ben Folds Five - Army
"Well I thought about the Army. Dad said "Son, you're fucking high."

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Some of my favorite Ryan Adams ones...like you guys would expect anything less from me. :wink:


If I could tell you something, I would tell you it all, but I don't know anything anymore - "Cracks In A Photograph"

I don't know the sound of my father's voice, I don't even know how he says my name - "The End"

The mirrors in the room go black and blue on a Sunday morning in her Saturday shoes - "Cold Roses"

I ain't afraid of hurt, I've had so much it feels just like normal to me now - "Now That You're Gone

Let me go, I'm only letting you down, I've got nothing to say to you now - "Sweet Illusions"
 
I'm not a huge Modest Mouse fan, but I love the first line of their song Black Cadillacs: "We named our children after towns we'd never been to"
 
"I ain't got no motherfuckin' friends...that's why I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker." - Tupac Shakur.
 
"Yo, I rock a house a house party at the drop of a hat...I beat a biter down with an aluminum bat"
 
From the master...

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it

*

"There must be someway outta here", said the joker to the thief.
"There's too much confusion here, I can't get no relief."


and Mr. Malkmus:

After the glow, the scene, the stage, the set,
talk becomes slow but there's one thing I'll never forget:
Hey, you gotta pay your dues before you pay the rent.

*
Blind date with a chancer, we had oysters and dry Lancer's
And the check when it arrived, we went dutch dutch dutch.

*

Capistrano swallow, answer to your inner voice
and please return,
God installed that radar in your pointy little beak
so you'd return.
 
Palace Music - Give me children

I take in a stranger and he hits me
I take in a wind and it bites
I listen at night
To you cry constantly
Saying "show yourself
Fight yourself"




Frank Zappa - What's the ugliest part of your body

What's the ugliest
Part of your body?
What's the ugliest
Part of your body?
Some say your nose
Some say your toes
(I think it's your mind)
But I think it's YOUR MIND
(Your mind)
I think it's your mind, woo woo




Townes van Zandt - Mr. Gold and Mr. Mud

The wicked king of clubs awoke
it was to his queen turned
his lips were laughing as they spoke
his eyes like bullets burned
the sun's upon a gambling day
his queen smiled low and blissfully
let's make some wretched fool to play
plain it was she did agree
 
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