Songs with the Greatest Opening Lines

[DAR]

Tonight the bottle let me down..... it let your memory come around.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I came here in looking for somethin'... I couldn't find anywhere else... well, I don't want to be nobody... Just want a chance to be myself...

 

[LOREN]

I...am...Iron Man

 

[LOREN]

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.

I was listening to Black Sabbath someone was playing outside and I saw an older gentleman nodding his head to the music. I thought “That’s interesting, an older person enjoying Black Sabbath” When I got home I looked in the mirror and “Damn, I look way older than that guy!” I don’t pretend I’m young when I’m listening to old rock, but I guess I just think about younger times, and when some older people told me that rock and heavy metal was bad

 

[litup]

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got
Not much of a girlfriend
I've never seem to get a lot
Take a jumbo across the water
Like to see America
See the girls in California
I'm hopin', it's going to come true
But there's not a lot, I can do

Could we have kippers for breakfast
Mummy dear, Mummy dear
They got to have 'em in Texas
'Cos everyone's a millionaire

- Supertramp

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

As I was lyin in a hospital bed
A rock n roll nurse went into my head
She says, hold ya arm, stick out ya tounge
I gots some pills I'm gonna give you somes

- New York Dolls

 

[beefeater33]

Look out, mama, there's a white boat coming up the river
With a big red beacon, and a flag, and a man on the rail..................

 

[glassjapan]

"Heard of a van....that's loaded with weapons. Packed up and ready to go."

 

[Old School 3319]

Bad boys bad boy whatcha gonna do

 

[Kottan]

Well it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
Ifin' you don't know by now

 

[cosmicfolklore]

V-neck t-shirt with a mustard stain... rollin' up a hose outside in the rain... he's been my neighbor since 'bout '79... 'Course he was in prison most of that time...

 

[ashdigger]

While not an opening line.....

Dog eat dog every day, on our fellow man we prey... Genocide by the Offspring.

 

[ashdigger]

Again, not an opening line..

Yeah, I got a permit to wear this .38, but my life is worth more than minimum wage.

Tom Petty, Night Watchman

 

[LOREN]

Measuring a summer's day, I only finds it slips away to grey. The hours, they bring me pain.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

You saw a woman in a cafe, lips of crimson, yellow grin
Her shoes were wrong and she looked extremely thin
Her jewels were faked, she'd had a rinse, her hair was greyish blue
She looked ashamed when she explained to you
It ain't easy when there's no-one to lean on
It ain't easy when there's nobody there
It ain't easy when your lovers are all gone
Nobody there, nobody cares
The pubs were closed she'd got nowhere to go when she'd spilled her tea
Have you never thought "One day that could be me"?
Her temper changed, she looked so deranged, her perfume turned to gin
You looked at her and she began to sing

- The Specials

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

The preacher man says it's the end of time...

 

[dino]

While not the opening lines, among the toughest closing lines:

Yes I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

 

[Kottan]

Well, it's one for the money two for the show
Three to get ready now go, cat, go

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I'm feelin' rough, I'm feelin' raw
I'm in the prime of my life
Let's make some music, make some money
Find some models for wives
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars

- MGMT