Greatest opening lines of a song

"I've seen the bright lights of Memphis and the Commodore Hotel..."

 

"give me a cheap beer joint, on the wrong side of town
and all you good-time people gather round
give me a toke out back, with a bouncer named Jack
then roll me on in, and sit right down"

 

"After three years, you know that I would - I'd die for you
But I would not cross the street to shake your hand,
If it turns out that I get 9 lives,
I swear in three years you took 10..."
-These Wishes by the Rave-Ups

 

Son, I'm 30
I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty.


I'm only 5 foot one.
I've got a pain in my neck
I'm looking up at this city
What the hell? What the heck?

 

"You know I've smoked a lot grass, Oh Lord, I've popped a lot of pills!"

Steppenwolf's first lp, self titled---The Pusher

 

I don't wanna kiss you
I don't wanna touch
I don't wanna see you
'Cause I don't miss you that much


"No Action" - Elvis Costello

 

I hate the world today... Meredith Brooks, "Bitch"
You broke my heart 'cause I couldn't dance. Berry Gordy, Jr. "Do You Love Me"
I don't like you, but I love you. bill "Smokey" Robinson, "You Really Got a Hold On Me"

 

I'm gonna put your head on my wall like I told you baby you can't talk no more,and then you can't eat eat no more hot dogs.

She came from Planet Claire,I know she came from there.
She drove a Plymouth Satellite faster than the speed of light.

Well my daddy left home when I was three,he didn't leave much for ma and me,'cept this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

Jenny said when she was just five years old You know there's nothing happening at all
Every time she puts on the radio There was nothing goin' down at all

Got himself a peach colored leisure suit.
Hundred dollar bills tucked in Florsheim boots.
Smelling like a menthol and soda pop.
Sure smelling sweet when the weather gets hot.

 

"Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river"

Neil Young 'Powderfinger'

 

"I'll be on my way, he said
As the knife quivered in his eye"

"We carried you in our arms
On Independence Day"

"Dear landlord,
Please don't put a price on my soul"

"You thought the leaden winter
Would bring you down forever
But you rode upon a steamer
To the violence of the sun"

"As the wagons
Leave the city
For the forest, and further on
Painted wagons of the morning
Dusty roads where they have gone"

"Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is use in trying"

 

Sweet Lucy was a dancer
But none of us would chance her
Because she was a Samurai
Deep Purple - Knocking at Your Back Door

 

"You're Breaking My Heart" -Harry Nilsson
Look it up!

 

Are you of got to ree
Got force to ready
Drop dead more
Short blind 'cause you're makin' me sick
Back dud lee
Insect of the crawling mother

 

You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide

Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah

 

When they pulled you out of the oxygen tent
You asked for the latest party

David Bowie

 

I'm sitting on the toilet
With my sunglasses on
Wondering what you are up to

John Hiatt, "Ethylene" from the "Walk On" album

 

Well, since my baby left me!

 

Stepping out to Angellucci's
for my coffee beans...

 

"Aurora Borealis, Icy Sky at night, Paddles cut the water in a long and hurried flight, from the white man to the fields of green, and the homeland we've never seen" - Neil Young "Pocahontas"

 

"Chivalry" Mekons
I was out late the other night
Fear and whiskey kept me going
I swore somebody held me tight
But now there's just no way of knowing

"Hard To Be Human" Mekons
I made a mistake
When I looked over my shoulder
Cromwell was right behind me
In the driving rain
I came out of the bathroom
Looking for my ticket
It's hard to be human
Hard to be human again

"Amnesia" Mekons
It was a dark and stormy night and the ship was rockin' on the open sea
Tossing and turning and rollin' in our bunks--the first mate, the boatswain and me
From Bristol to the Ivory Coast, and then on to Jamaica
Down in the hold there is no sound, we're taking rock 'n' roll to America

Bless my soul what's wrong with me?
I forgot to forget to remember...

 

"Padded with power here they come, international loan sharks backed by the guns, of market hungry military profiteers, whose word is a swamp and who's brow is smeared with the blood of the poor" - Bruce Cockburn 'Call It Democracy'

 

"HELP! I need somebody, HELP! Not just anybody, HELP! you know I need someone HELP!!" - The Beatles

 

One Saturday I took a walk to Zipperhead
I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead

Punk Rock Girl -- The Dead Milkmen

 

'Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to...Strawberry Fields'

 

"I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise..."

Pete Townshend "I Can See For Miles"