Best opening line of a song?

[begin_within]

(One line, please)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Gonna close my eyes, girl and watch you go.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. You think she comes from a fairytale

[shenmue]

3. In a time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey

[geardaddy]

24. !

[Initech]

129. Soy un perdedor, I'm a loser baby, why don't you kill me?

[orleans]

4. what i'll give you, since you've asked, is all my time together

[Glorfindel]

16. Yes! I love the song, the album, and Sweet Judy Blue Eyes

[pinboy3niner]

5. Hey, Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?

[NewJeffCT]

54. good one

another one would be "There must be some kind of way out of here, said the joker to the thief"

[nomorenomore08]

6. "She's not a girl who misses much..."

First one I thought of, anyway.

[Enrique]

7. God said to abraham kill me a son...

starts with a bang.

[hibbing]

23. Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

We sit here stranded, but we all do our best to deny it.

B. Dylan


Peace

[ailsagirl]

123. Ah, yes

[Art_from_Ark]

8. "'I Dig a Pygmy' by Charles Haughtry and the Deaf Aids"

[Earth_First]

9. Hey, HO...let's go!

[sarge43]

10. I am the god of hell fire and I bring you fire.

Fire, Arthur Brown

[Le Taz Hot]

11. Eleonor Rigby, picks up the rice in the church where her wedding has been . . .

[Glorfindel]

15. That's one of the songs that I remember the first time I ever heard it...

sad but somehow sweet at the same time. And poor old Father McKenzie, too. "nobody cares"

[Glorfindel]

12. "Well, I'll be damned...here comes your ghost again."

Joan Baez, "Diamonds and Rust"

[Le Taz Hot]

13. I've always loved that song.

Her tribute to Mr. Zimmerman. I always thought she was an underrated acoustic guitar player as well.

[Tom Ripley]

14. "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day" or "I don't know just where I'm going"

[malthaussen]

17. "Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy."

What more needs to be said?

-- Mal

[Tommy_Carcetti]

18. Father, I killed my monkey to let it out to taste the sweet of spring. nt

[UncleYoder]

19. Sunshine, blue skies, please go away.

[pipi_k]

20. The Hombres...

A preachment, dear friend
You are about to receive on John Barleycorn
Nicotine and the temptations of Eve

[benld74]

21. I was born in a crossfire hurricane,,,,,,,

[Tuesday Afternoon]

27. beat me to it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

28. I see a red door and I want it painted black.

[benld74]

39. When you get up in the morning and the light is hurt your head

[Tuesday Afternoon]

69. I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block

[Art_from_Ark]

74. You're the kind of person you meet at certain dismal dull affairs

[rug]

22. You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend

[shenmue]

25. Farewell to this land's tuneless marshes

[geardaddy]

26. Here's mine

Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons, packed up and ready to go

[kwassa]

43. saw them sing this at the Greek in '83.

Incredible. Went on forever.

[NightWatcher]

29. I'll start this off without any words

(followed by)
I got so high I scratched 'till I bled.
I love myself better than you.
I know it's wrong so what should I do?

[BubbaFett]

30. WELL I BEEN DOWN SO GODDAMN LONG

[reflection]

31. ding dingdingding ding dingdingdingding ding dingdingding

Ok, I really like "YYZ" by Rush.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

32. She walks through the corn leading down to the river

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. Conquistador your stallion stands ...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

34. Nights in white satin, never reaching the end,

[Tuesday Afternoon]

35. We skipped the light fandango

[Throd]

36. Efficiency and progress is ours once more, now that we have the neutron bomb.

[hibbing]

97. Nice one!

Hehe, gosh I miss them, but still drag out some to crank every now and then.

[wfulro]

37. song

"Diamonds and Rust"

[CTyankee]

38. You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain...

[NewJeffCT]

40. Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth & taste.

I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith

Rolling Stones

[NewJeffCT]

41. she's a very kinky girl - the kind you don't bring home to mother

Rick James, of course.

[kwassa]

42. I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth ...

"Substitute" by The Who.

not the opening line, but a great line.

[kwassa]

44. Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin' too.

B.B. King

The ultimate blues lyric.

[NewJeffCT]

45. what would you think if I sang out of tune

Would you stand up and walk out on me?

[NewJeffCT]

46. God Save the Queen - The Fascist Regime

they made you a moron - a potential H Bomb

[NewJeffCT]

48. or " I am an antichrist! I am an anarchist!"

both from the Sex Pistols

[kwassa]

47. Johnny's in the basement, mixing up the medicine.

Bob Dylan

[kwassa]

49. Crimson flames tied through my ears, rollin' high and mighty traps

[lastlib]

135. Oh, YEAH!

"Countless fire and flaming roads, Using ideas as my map"!! . . .

[kwassa]

50. And you might find yourself living in a shotgun shack.

[aikoaiko]

163. Nice.

[easychoice]

51. I met a gin soaked barroom queen in Memphis

Mom?

[Jetboy]

83. I always thought that this was the consensus #1.

But my favorite is a wop bop a lu lop a wop bam boom.

[kwassa]

52. Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again,

[NewJeffCT]

53. I was thinking of that one as well

another classic

[NewJeffCT]

55. There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun

and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy, and god, I know, I'm one.

[NewJeffCT]

56. I hurt myself today to see if I still feel

written by Trent Reznor, but Johnny Cash's version was awesome
s

[NewJeffCT]

57. Surprised that on a liberal site, this one hasn't come up yet

Tin Soldiers & Nixon's Coming...

[kwassa]

58. I was dreamin' when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray

[Texasgal]

59. I heard you on my wireless back in '52

[Tuesday Afternoon]

60. Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light

[mokawanis]

61. Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood

[Jenoch]

62. I was a young radio announcer at a country station when this song was released..

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D2cwcgExm-JQ&sa=U&ei=YvxSVOu6M8L-yQSDzILgDQ&ved=0CAsQtwIwAA&usg=AFQjCNEqwY_CNWYh6GVTyNR3huHp60n_sA

[Paulie]

63. Baa DAA. Baa daa dum daa dum.

The opening from the original Battlestar Galactica.

[Arkansas Granny]

64. She came in through the bathroom window.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

65. Jesus just left Chicago

[Tuesday Afternoon]

66. you never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips

[Tuesday Afternoon]

67. In a white room, with black curtains, near the station.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

68. This bed is on fire with passionate love

[NewJeffCT]

82. the neighbors complain about the noises above

just heard that one the other day on the radio, but they changed a certain lyric in there.

[Arugula Latte]

93. Love that song.

Caught your hand inside the till
Slammed your fingers in the door
Fought with kitchen knives and skewers -- (I love how he sings "skeweeeers&quot
Dressed me up in womens clothes
Messed around with gender roles
Dye my eyes and call me pretty

[Tuesday Afternoon]

70. welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.

[nirvana555]

72. Woke up this mornin' with a wine glass in my hand...whose wine,what wine, where

the Hell did I dine?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

88. woke up this mornin' and I got myself a beer ...

[Brigid]

71. When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school

It's a wonder I can think at all

Guess.

[Tireman]

73. She's got a smile that it seems to me

Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky

[Expat in Korea]

75. I might be movin' to Montana soon...

[kwassa]

138. gonna be a dental floss tycoon?

[Expat in Korea]

139. Just me and the pygmy pony...

over by the dental floss bush.

[cemaphonic]

76. The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar,

A wonderfully evocative simile in its own right (especially if you're enough of a guitar person to recognize that the classic National resonators are made of metal and indeed very shiny), and it also just sets so may of the themes of the song (America, music, travel) in just a few words.

[MattSh]

77. “You’re breaking my heart, you’re tearing it apart, so f--k you.”

Harry Nilsson, “You’re Breaking My Heart”

[MattSh]

78. “Jesus died for somebody’s sins/But not mine”

Patti Smith, “Gloria”

[Skittles]

79. GUESS I GOT WHAT I DESERVED

yes INDEED

[MattSh]

80. “Picture yourself in a boat on a river/With tangerine trees and marmalade skies”

The Beatles, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”

[WinkyDink]

81. Is DU copying DataLounge, or vice-versa?

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[NewJeffCT]

84. Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals

Baba O'Reilly

[BarbaRosa]

85. My daddy left home when I was three

[malthaussen]

86. "They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot." n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

87. Listen children, to a story that was written long ago

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

105. Billy Jack fan?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

106. !

good to see you

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

108. ~

you too!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

110. U2 !! = One man comes in the name of love ...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

111. Warren... I heard Woodrow Wilson's guns

Veracruz

I heard Woodrow Wilson's guns
I heard Maria crying
Late last night I heard the news
That Veracruz was dying
Veracruz was dying

Someone called Maria's name
I swear it was my father's voice
Saying, "If you stay you'll all be slain
You must leave now, you have no choice"

"Take the servants and ride west
Keep the child close to your chest
When the American troops withdraw
Let Zapata take the rest"

I heard Woodrow Wilson's guns
I heard Maria calling
Veracruz is dying
And Cuernavaca's falling

Aquel dia yo jure
Hacia el puerto volvere
Aunque el destino cambio mi vida
En Veracruz morire
Aquel dia yo jure

I heard Woodrow Wilson's guns
I heard them in the harbor
Saying, "Veracruz was dying"

[Iggo]

89. If the whole first verse is one sentence, does that count as one line?

(I know it doesn't, but I don't care...lol)

Deep Purple

When the deep purple falls
Over sleepy garden walls
And the stars begin to twinkle in the night
In the mist of a memory
You wander back to me
Breathing my name with a sigh.

[begin_within]

100. Well, you will get credit for it.

But technically, I would say the first line is one line. Unless all that you typed is sung without stopping at all.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

90. Holly came from Miami F.L.A.

[BarbaRosa]

91. Well she got her daddy's car

[hamsterjill]

92. "For the other half of the sky"

From "Woman" by John Lennon.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

94. Tuesday afternoon, I'm just beginning to see ...

[Arugula Latte]

95. I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

[Doc_Technical]

96. "The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long"

Comin back to me- Jefferson Airplane

[malthaussen]

101. Helluva song.

Personal favorite.

-- Mal

[annabanana]

121. wonderful wonderful song. . . .n/t

[Le Taz Hot]

159. Best. Jefferson. Airplane. Song. Ever.

I still have the Surrealistic Pillow album but it's unplayable. I literally wore the grooves out of the album. I listed to that and "Today" for hours and hours. Damn! I'm gonna go find that on YouTube and listen to it again.

[Iggo]

98. Mississippi Queen. You know what I mean.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

99. Spring was never waiting for us, girl

[malthaussen]

102. "I was working in the lab, late one night, when my eyes beheld an eerie sight..."

Hey, it's Hallowe'en.

-- Mal

[greendog]

103. Well, I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.

Kristofferson

[Special Prosciuto]

104. Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)

by Reunion, 1974

Opening line:

"B.B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers
Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady
Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction
Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter
Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story
Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama
Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Archies, Righteous, Nilsson, Harry
Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin'"

[Tuesday Afternoon]

107. She packed up her bags and took off down the road ...

[TeeYiYi]

109. They tried to make me go to rehab but I said, "No, no, no"

TYY

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

112. Don't leave me alone, I'm waiting for this to be the last thing that I say

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"Dine, Dine My Darling" by Alkaline Trio

[gratuitous]

113. Sun's up, mm hmm, looks okay

Not a great opening line, but a great song.

[llmart]

114. Didn't I make you feel like you were the only man.......

n/t

[pinboy3niner]

115. It's the little old lady from Pasadena

[Tuesday Afternoon]

116. She came in through the bathroom window ...

[GoCubsGo]

117. Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,...

...then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait... ("The Big Bang Theory" by Barenaked Ladies.)

Heck, any song that has the words "autotrophs", "bipeds", "Pangea" and "Australopithecus" in it is tops with me.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

118. He take a thunder from the mountain

The Old Man Down The Road

He take a thunder from the mountain
He take a lightning from the sky
He bring a strong man to his begging knee
He make a young girl's mama cry

You got to hidey-hide
You got to jump and run
You got to hidey-hidey-hide
The old man is down the road

He got the voices speak in riddles
He got the eye as black as coal
He got a suitcase covered with rattlesnake hide
And he stands right in the road

You got to hidey-hide
You got to jump up, run away
You got to hidey-hidey-hide
The old man is down the road

He make the river call your lover
He make the barking of the hound
Put a shadow 'cross the window
When the old man comes around

You got to hidey-hide
You got to jump and run again
You got to hidey-hidey-hide
The old man is down the road
The old man is down the road

Ah, you got to, you got to, you got to hidey-hidey-hide

[Initech]

119. "Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast."

"For it is a human number. It's number is six hundred and sixty six."

[Iggo]

122. Woe to you o' earth and sea...

[Initech]

125. I'm waiting in my cold cell, when the gallows begin to chime...

[Iggo]

126. You take my life, but I'll take yours too.

[Initech]

127. I have sailed to many lands, now I take my final journey

[Iggo]

130. If you're feeling down, depressed, and lonely...

[annabanana]

120. When I was back there in Seminary School . . There was a person there. Who put forth the proposition

That you can petition the Lord with prayer. Petition the Lord, with prayer

[ailsagirl]

124. "They're selling postcards of the hanging..."

This song has fantastic lyrics, in part:

Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row.

Quite simply Dylan was, and is, a true genius.

[Initech]

128. Put down that chainsaw and listen to me, it's time for us to join in the fight

[Gidney N Cloyd]

131. Well, I went to the doctor, said, "I'm feeling kind of rough" He said, "I'll break it to you, son...

...Your shit's fucked up."

I said, "my shit's fucked up?"
Well, I don't see how-"
He said, "The shit that used to work-
It won't work now."

[MrMickeysMom]

132. Sitting on a park bench….

.. eyeing little girls with bad intent… Oooh, Aqualung

(second line's even better)

[LeftInTX]

136. Snot is running down his nose -- greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.

Drying in the cold sun --
Watching as the frilly panties run.

(I think I bought the album cuz of it's weird lyrics)

[chknltl]

152. Yeah, well at 60 I resemble the guy on the cover

Dye the grey back to blond, add an old tan trench-coat and Paging Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up!

[ok_cpu]

133. The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves.

[Ino]

134. It was the third of September...

my birthday!!

[OxQQme]

137. Chocolate on my fingers, icing on my lips

[Jenoch]

140. Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh,

Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh,
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh,
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh,
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh,
Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh.

[Xipe Totec]

141. When they speak to you of love and of dreams

And they offer you the sun and the entire sky
if you remember me, don't mention my name...

[Mr.Bill]

142. As soon as you're born, they make you feel small.

Working Class Hero - John Lennon

I have a feeling that line was autobiographical.

[CBGLuthier]

143. "Do you still see me even here?" (The silver cord lies on the ground.)

[kwassa]

144. Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste.

[kwassa]

145. Well, she's walking through the clouds, with a circus mind that's running wild,

[kwassa]

146. I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees,

[kwassa]

147. Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans, way back up in the woods among the evergreens

[kwassa]

148. I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean

[tabbycat31]

149. I hope the ring you gave to her turns her finger green

(Kelly Clarkson, Never Again)

[GGJohn]

150. He blesses the boys, as they stand in line.

Sky Pilot by Eric Burden and the Animals

[Sedona]

151. There must be some kind of way out of here said the joker to the thief

[chknltl]

153. I pirouette in the dark, I see the stars through me.

[Recursion]

154. Bowm bowm. Oh yeah. Chk. Chka-chka. (nt)

[NanceGreggs]

155. "The world was on fire ...

... and no could save me but you."

[Wolf Frankula]

156. We'll Be Marching in the Street

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With our children at our feet.

Has the best closing line too.

"Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss!"

Wolf

[Coventina]

157. Reluctantly crouched, at the starting line

[sharp_stick]

158. You let me violate you, you let me desecrate you

http://vimeo.com/3554226

I loved this album when it first came out. It was pretty much on repeat in my car for months.

[Arugula Latte]

165. I like the subtlety of that one.

I wonder what he means by "I wanna f@#$ you like an animal?"

[sharp_stick]

167. I know but because of that intense subtlety

I'm afraid most people didn't "get it".

What can I say, I was going through a phase.

[lame54]

160. Like seeing a car crash from inside the car....

the driver's got his head craned back - he's telling you a joke

[My Good Babushka]

161. I like people, they're the ones who can't stand

[aikoaiko]

162. This is the end.

[kwassa]

164. Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted ...

all the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

[Arugula Latte]

166. Who's on the seventh floor, brewing alternatives?

[hifiguy]

168. "Cat's foot iron claw / Neuro-surgeons scream for more / At paranoia's poison door/

Twenty-first century Schizoid Man."

[Mopar151]

169. Gonna tell you all a story, 'bout a joker and a thief in the night!

Wolfmother

[Mopar151]

170. Got the number 13 tattoed on my neck, When it starts to itch the black will turn to red

Been the soul of misery, never had me a name
They just used the number when I was young.

Written for Johnny Cash by Glenn Danzig

[A HERETIC I AM]

171. Agents of the law, luckless pedestrians,

I know you're out there, with rage in your eyes and your megaphones.


(Saying all is forgiven. Mad dog surrender. How can I answer? A man of my mind can do anything)

[Ohio Joe]

172. You gonna look fine... Be primed for dancing

[Orsino]

173. "How do you do?/I see you've met my faithful handyman..." n/t

[plcdude]

174. I was

all right for awhile
I could smile for awhile

Great song