Songs with the Greatest Opening Lines

[smudgersmissingleg]

I need to be myself
I can't be no one else
I'm feeling supersonic
Give me gin and tonic
You can have it all but
How much do you want it

- Oasis

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

And the greatest song ever, writtenby Felice and Boudleax Bryant, performed most memorably by the Osborne Brothers

Wish that I was on ol‘ Rocky Top

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Well, c'mon everybody and let's get together tonight
I got some money in my jeans and I'm really gonna spend it right

- Eddi Cochran

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Just two good ol’ boys, never meaning no harm...

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

One, two, three
Turn it up

- Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

[aquadoc]

"It’s so relieving to know that you’re leaving as soon as you get paid"

"you can tell by the way I use my walk that I am a woman's man"

"all the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray"

"get your motor running, get out on the highway"

"hey kids, shake it loose together"

"birds flying high, you know how I feel"

and last "we skipped the light fandango...."

Damnit, now my wife and I cannot get this out of our system!!!!!!!

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop

- The Stones

 

[Aresone]

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

in 1814 I took a little trip along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississipp

Cottonbalers by God, damn fine soldiers!!

 

[FurCoat]

Marky got with Sharon, Sharon got Sherice, she was sharing Sharon's outlook, on the topic of disease, Mikey had a facial scar, and Bobby was a racist, they were all in love with dyin', they were doing it in Texas..."​

I wasn't expecting that one

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Oh, I could hide 'neath the wings
Of the bluebird as she sings

- The Monkees?

 

[Aresone]

Strap them kids in
Give 'em a little bit of vodka in a cherry coke

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

You were working as waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you

- The Human League

 

[rajangan]

"Almost cut my hair."

David Crosby

 

[ssjones]

I'm a fleabit peanut monkey
And all my friends are junkies
That's not really true

 

[tobefrank]

Lump sat alone in a boggy marsh
Totally motionless except for her heart
Mud flowed up into Lump's pajamas
She totally confused all the passing piranhas

 

[bullet08]

"All things dull and ugly
All creatures short and squat.."

 

[bullet08]

"Have you ever met a girl that you tried to date
But a year to make love she wanted you to wait?.."

 

[bullet08]

"A long, long time ago
I can still remember how that music
Used to make me smile.."

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she

 

[Grazer]