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

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Best opening line of a song? [View all] begin_within Oct 2014 OP

Gonna close my eyes, girl and watch you go. Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #1

You think she comes from a fairytale Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #2

In a time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey shenmue Oct 2014 #3

! geardaddy Oct 2014 #24

Soy un perdedor, I'm a loser baby, why don't you kill me? Initech Nov 2014 #129

what i'll give you, since you've asked, is all my time together orleans Oct 2014 #4

Yes! I love the song, the album, and Sweet Judy Blue Eyes Glorfindel Oct 2014 #16

Hey, Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand? pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #5

good one NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #54

"She's not a girl who misses much..." nomorenomore08 Oct 2014 #6

God said to abraham kill me a son... Enrique Oct 2014 #7

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? hibbing Oct 2014 #23

Ah, yes ailsagirl Nov 2014 #123

"'I Dig a Pygmy' by Charles Haughtry and the Deaf Aids" Art_from_Ark Oct 2014 #8

Hey, HO...let's go! Earth_First Oct 2014 #9

I am the god of hell fire and I bring you fire. sarge43 Oct 2014 #10

Eleonor Rigby, picks up the rice in the church where her wedding has been . . . Le Taz Hot Oct 2014 #11

That's one of the songs that I remember the first time I ever heard it... Glorfindel Oct 2014 #15

"Well, I'll be damned...here comes your ghost again." Glorfindel Oct 2014 #12

I've always loved that song. Le Taz Hot Oct 2014 #13

"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day" or "I don't know just where I'm going" Tom Ripley Oct 2014 #14

"Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy." malthaussen Oct 2014 #17

Father, I killed my monkey to let it out to taste the sweet of spring. nt Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2014 #18

Sunshine, blue skies, please go away. UncleYoder Oct 2014 #19

The Hombres... pipi_k Oct 2014 #20

I was born in a crossfire hurricane,,,,,,, benld74 Oct 2014 #21

beat me to it. Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #27

I see a red door and I want it painted black. Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #28

When you get up in the morning and the light is hurt your head benld74 Oct 2014 #39

I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #69

You're the kind of person you meet at certain dismal dull affairs Art_from_Ark Oct 2014 #74

You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend rug Oct 2014 #22

Farewell to this land's tuneless marshes shenmue Oct 2014 #25

Here's mine geardaddy Oct 2014 #26

saw them sing this at the Greek in '83. kwassa Oct 2014 #43

I'll start this off without any words NightWatcher Oct 2014 #29

WELL I BEEN DOWN SO GODDAMN LONG BubbaFett Oct 2014 #30

ding dingdingding ding dingdingdingding ding dingdingding reflection Oct 2014 #31

She walks through the corn leading down to the river Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #32

Conquistador your stallion stands ... Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #33

Nights in white satin, never reaching the end, Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #34

We skipped the light fandango Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #35

Efficiency and progress is ours once more, now that we have the neutron bomb. Throd Oct 2014 #36

Nice one! hibbing Oct 2014 #97

song wfulro Oct 2014 #37

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain... CTyankee Oct 2014 #38

Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth & taste. NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #40

she's a very kinky girl - the kind you don't bring home to mother NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #41

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth ... kwassa Oct 2014 #42

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin' too. kwassa Oct 2014 #44

what would you think if I sang out of tune NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #45

God Save the Queen - The Fascist Regime NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #46

or " I am an antichrist! I am an anarchist!" NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #48

Johnny's in the basement, mixing up the medicine. kwassa Oct 2014 #47

Crimson flames tied through my ears, rollin' high and mighty traps kwassa Oct 2014 #49

Oh, YEAH! lastlib Nov 2014 #135

And you might find yourself living in a shotgun shack. kwassa Oct 2014 #50

Nice. aikoaiko Nov 2014 #163

I met a gin soaked barroom queen in Memphis easychoice Oct 2014 #51

I always thought that this was the consensus #1. Jetboy Oct 2014 #83

Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again, kwassa Oct 2014 #52

I was thinking of that one as well NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #53

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #55

I hurt myself today to see if I still feel NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #56

Surprised that on a liberal site, this one hasn't come up yet NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #57

I was dreamin' when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray kwassa Oct 2014 #58

I heard you on my wireless back in '52 Texasgal Oct 2014 #59

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #60

Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood mokawanis Oct 2014 #61

I was a young radio announcer at a country station when this song was released.. Jenoch Oct 2014 #62

Baa DAA. Baa daa dum daa dum. Paulie Oct 2014 #63

She came in through the bathroom window. Arkansas Granny Oct 2014 #64

Jesus just left Chicago Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #65

you never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #66

In a white room, with black curtains, near the station. Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #67

This bed is on fire with passionate love Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #68

the neighbors complain about the noises above NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #82

Love that song. Arugula Latte Oct 2014 #93

welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #70

Woke up this mornin' with a wine glass in my hand...whose wine,what wine, where nirvana555 Oct 2014 #72

woke up this mornin' and I got myself a beer ... Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #88

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school Brigid Oct 2014 #71

She's got a smile that it seems to me Tireman Oct 2014 #73

I might be movin' to Montana soon... Expat in Korea Oct 2014 #75

gonna be a dental floss tycoon? kwassa Nov 2014 #138

Just me and the pygmy pony... Expat in Korea Nov 2014 #139

The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar, cemaphonic Oct 2014 #76

�You�re breaking my heart, you�re tearing it apart, so f--k you.� MattSh Oct 2014 #77

�Jesus died for somebody�s sins/But not mine� MattSh Oct 2014 #78

GUESS I GOT WHAT I DESERVED Skittles Oct 2014 #79

�Picture yourself in a boat on a river/With tangerine trees and marmalade skies� MattSh Oct 2014 #80

Is DU copying DataLounge, or vice-versa? WinkyDink Oct 2014 #81

Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals NewJeffCT Oct 2014 #84

My daddy left home when I was three BarbaRosa Oct 2014 #85

"They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot." n/t malthaussen Oct 2014 #86

Listen children, to a story that was written long ago Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #87

Billy Jack fan? discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2014 #105

! Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #106

~ discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2014 #108

U2 !! = One man comes in the name of love ... Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #110

Warren... I heard Woodrow Wilson's guns discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2014 #111

If the whole first verse is one sentence, does that count as one line? Iggo Oct 2014 #89

Well, you will get credit for it. begin_within Oct 2014 #100

Holly came from Miami F.L.A. Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #90

Well she got her daddy's car BarbaRosa Oct 2014 #91

"For the other half of the sky" hamsterjill Oct 2014 #92

Tuesday afternoon, I'm just beginning to see ... Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #94

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar Arugula Latte Oct 2014 #95

"The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long" Doc_Technical Oct 2014 #96

Helluva song. malthaussen Oct 2014 #101

wonderful wonderful song. . . .n/t annabanana Nov 2014 #121

Best. Jefferson. Airplane. Song. Ever. Le Taz Hot Nov 2014 #159

Mississippi Queen. You know what I mean. Iggo Oct 2014 #98

Spring was never waiting for us, girl Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #99

"I was working in the lab, late one night, when my eyes beheld an eerie sight..." malthaussen Oct 2014 #102

Well, I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt. greendog Oct 2014 #103

Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) Special Prosciuto Oct 2014 #104

She packed up her bags and took off down the road ... Tuesday Afternoon Oct 2014 #107

They tried to make me go to rehab but I said, "No, no, no" TeeYiYi Oct 2014 #109

Don't leave me alone, I'm waiting for this to be the last thing that I say LeftOfSelf-Centered Oct 2014 #112

Sun's up, mm hmm, looks okay gratuitous Oct 2014 #113

Didn't I make you feel like you were the only man....... llmart Oct 2014 #114

It's the little old lady from Pasadena pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #115

She came in through the bathroom window ... Tuesday Afternoon Nov 2014 #116

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,... GoCubsGo Nov 2014 #117

He take a thunder from the mountain discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2014 #118

"Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast." Initech Nov 2014 #119

Woe to you o' earth and sea... Iggo Nov 2014 #122

I'm waiting in my cold cell, when the gallows begin to chime... Initech Nov 2014 #125

You take my life, but I'll take yours too. Iggo Nov 2014 #126

I have sailed to many lands, now I take my final journey Initech Nov 2014 #127

If you're feeling down, depressed, and lonely... Iggo Nov 2014 #130

When I was back there in Seminary School . . There was a person there. Who put forth the proposition annabanana Nov 2014 #120

"They're selling postcards of the hanging..." ailsagirl Nov 2014 #124

Put down that chainsaw and listen to me, it's time for us to join in the fight Initech Nov 2014 #128

Well, I went to the doctor, said, "I'm feeling kind of rough" He said, "I'll break it to you, son... Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2014 #131

Sitting on a park bench�. MrMickeysMom Nov 2014 #132

Snot is running down his nose -- greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. LeftInTX Nov 2014 #136

Yeah, well at 60 I resemble the guy on the cover chknltl Nov 2014 #152

The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves. ok_cpu Nov 2014 #133

It was the third of September... Ino Nov 2014 #134

Chocolate on my fingers, icing on my lips OxQQme Nov 2014 #137

Chh chh-chh, uh, Chh chh-chh, uh, Jenoch Nov 2014 #140

When they speak to you of love and of dreams Xipe Totec Nov 2014 #141

As soon as you're born, they make you feel small. Mr.Bill Nov 2014 #142

"Do you still see me even here?" (The silver cord lies on the ground.) CBGLuthier Nov 2014 #143

Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste. kwassa Nov 2014 #144

Well, she's walking through the clouds, with a circus mind that's running wild, kwassa Nov 2014 #145

I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees, kwassa Nov 2014 #146

Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans, way back up in the woods among the evergreens kwassa Nov 2014 #147

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean kwassa Nov 2014 #148

I hope the ring you gave to her turns her finger green tabbycat31 Nov 2014 #149

He blesses the boys, as they stand in line. GGJohn Nov 2014 #150

There must be some kind of way out of here said the joker to the thief Sedona Nov 2014 #151

I pirouette in the dark, I see the stars through me. chknltl Nov 2014 #153

Bowm bowm. Oh yeah. Chk. Chka-chka. (nt) Recursion Nov 2014 #154

"The world was on fire ... NanceGreggs Nov 2014 #155

We'll Be Marching in the Street Wolf Frankula Nov 2014 #156

Reluctantly crouched, at the starting line Coventina Nov 2014 #157

You let me violate you, you let me desecrate you sharp_stick Nov 2014 #158

I like the subtlety of that one. Arugula Latte Nov 2014 #165

I know but because of that intense subtlety sharp_stick Nov 2014 #167

Like seeing a car crash from inside the car.... lame54 Nov 2014 #160

I like people, they're the ones who can't stand My Good Babushka Nov 2014 #161

This is the end. aikoaiko Nov 2014 #162

Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted ... kwassa Nov 2014 #164

Who's on the seventh floor, brewing alternatives? Arugula Latte Nov 2014 #166

"Cat's foot iron claw / Neuro-surgeons scream for more / At paranoia's poison door/ hifiguy Nov 2014 #168

Gonna tell you all a story, 'bout a joker and a thief in the night! Mopar151 Nov 2014 #169

Got the number 13 tattoed on my neck, When it starts to itch the black will turn to red Mopar151 Nov 2014 #170

Agents of the law, luckless pedestrians, A HERETIC I AM Nov 2014 #171

You gonna look fine... Be primed for dancing Ohio Joe Nov 2014 #172

"How do you do?/I see you've met my faithful handyman..." n/t Orsino Nov 2014 #173

I was plcdude Nov 2014 #174