Songs with the Greatest Opening Lines

[smudgersmissingleg]

I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles and never frowns
Soon I will be president...
Carter power will soon go 'way
I will be Führer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school

 

[Kottan]

The Eastern world, it is explodin'
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I do have to admit that I have to Google some of these punk rock lyrics. But, I am enjoying learning new stuff. I am very open minded when it comes to music. I love it all. Except some of the screamy metal stuff.

Well I'm an axe grinder... Pile driver... Mama says... That I never never mind her...

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I got a certain little girl she's on my mind
No doubt about it she looks so fine
She's the best girl that I ever had
Sometimes she's gonna make me feel so bad

- Deep Purple

 

[briarbuck]

People try to put us d-down
Just because we get around
Things they do look awful cold
I hope I die before I get old

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Look out of any window, any morning, any evening, any day.... maybe the sun is shining... birds are singing... no rain is falling from a heavy sky...

 

[Dan-o$]

I am the king
I am the king
Of nothing...

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I was so wasted
I was a hippie
I was a burnout
I was a dropout
I was out of my head
I was a surfer
I had a skateboard
I was so heavy man, I lived on the strand

- Black Flag

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

When I was 17, it was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
We'd hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was 17

- Frank ?

 

[dino]

If you're havin' trouble with your high school head
He's givin' you the blues
You wanna graduate but not in 'is bed
Here's what you gotta do -
Pick up the phone
I'm always home
Call me any time
Just dial
36 24 36 hey
I lead a life of crime

 

[cosmicfolklore]

If you're havin' trouble with your high school head
He's givin' you the blues
You wanna graduate but not in 'is bed
Here's what you gotta do -
Pick up the phone
I'm always home
Call me any time
Just dial
36 24 36 hey
I lead a life of crime

I was walking by a neighbor's house the other day, and heard old ACDC blasting it, LOUD... it was just a little odd that the guy who lives there is in his mid 70's, ha ha. Still rockin', but probably loud because of his hearing aids.

 

[dino]

Cosmic, I, too, am in my mid-70s, and I listen to rock music LOUD.
Not because there's anything wrong with my hearing, but because that's how it should be played!

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile

 

[glassjapan]

"I couldn't say where she was coming from but I just met a lady named Dinah-Moe Humm. She strolled on over said look here bum I got a forty dollar bill say you can't make me cum. You just can't do it!"

 

[renfield]

A modern day warrior mean, mean stride

Today's Tom Sawyer mean, mean pride

 

[Kottan]

We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile

That was the guitar riff of the century.

 

[Chasing Embers]

That was the guitar riff of the century.

Got nothing on Layla.??

 

[Kottan]

Got nothing on Layla.??

Ha - in fact I first wanted to add in brackets...(aside Layla, of course). BTW I read that Clapton later sold the Layla riff to the car producer Opel.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
Kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Stock car flamin' with a loser and the cruise control
Baby's in Reno with the vitamin D
Got a couple of couches, sleep on the love-seat
Someone came in sayin' I'm insane to complain
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
Don't believe everything that you breathe
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park
Yo, cut it

- Beck

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I don't practice Santeria, I ain't got no crystal ball... Well, I had a million dollars but I'd, I'd spend it all...