Songs that have great opening lines

Something in German: "Richtig schön wars nur mit dir" by Element of Crime:

"Sterne vor den Augen leuchten mir den Weg durch eine Nacht, in der, wer Witze macht, verliert..."

Translates somehow into: Stars before my eyes light the way through a night, in which someone who cracks jokes, loses.

 

Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?

Pink Floyd - "Mother"

Mother do you think they'll like this song?
Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls?

Ooh, ah
Mother should I build the wall?
Mother should I run for President?
Mother should I trust the government?
Mother will they put me in the firing mine?
Ooh ah,
Is it just a waste of time?

Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry.
Mama's gonna make all your nightmares come true.
Mama's gonna put all her fears into you.
Mama's gonna keep you right here under her wing.
She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing.
Mama's gonna keep baby cozy and warm.
Ooh baby, ooh baby, ooh baby,
Of course mama's gonna help build the wall.

 

"Gonna take off my pants
Gonna take off my pants
Gonna take off my pants
Gonna take off my pants!"

- "Pants", Randy Newman

 

"Grandpa pissed his pants again
He don't give a damn"

Warren Zevon - Play It All Night Long

 

Hanging out on Second Avenue
Eating chicken vindaloo
I just want to be with you
I just want to have something to do

- Ramones

 

I will be
The first person in history
To die
Of boredom

Felt - Declaration

 

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train
And I's feeling nearly as faded as my jeans.


Janis Joplin ~ "Me And Bobby Mcgee"

 

I'm shufflin' through the Texas sand
But my head's in Mississippi

ZZ Top ~ "My Head's in Mississippi"

 

That's Kris Kristofferson's line.

 

Yes, but it's her delivery of the lines, in his song, that is great.

 

Black Dog ~ Led Zeppelin

Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.

Oh, oh, child, way you shake that thing
Gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting.

Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way
Watch your honey drip, cant keep away.

 

Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed
Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed

 

"So this is permanence, love's shattered pride.
What once was innocence, turned on its side."

- Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours

 

Having just arrived from that thread...

Mr. MOONLIGHT

 

Gather 'round kids! Here's some more happiness from your Uncle Lou!

A son who is cursed with a harridan mother
or a weak simpering father at best
Is raised to play out the timeless classical motives
of filial love and incest
- "How Do You Speak to an Angel"

Remember your manners
will you please take your hat off
Your mother is dying
listen to her cough
- "Standing on Ceremony"

Smiles, I was taught never to smile
I was told the stylish smiles of buffoonery
chicanery and larceny abound
- "Smiles"

The man has a gun, he knows how to use it
Nine millimeter Browning, let's see what he can do
He'll point at your mouth, say that he'll blow your brains out
- "The Gun"

The bias of the father runs on through the son
And leaves him bothered and bewildered
The drugs in his veins only cause him to spit
At the face staring back in the mirror
- "Endless Cycle"

I see The Sword of Damocles is right above your head
They're trying a new treatment to get you out of bed
But radiation kills both bad and good, it can not differentiate
So to cure you they must kill you
The Sword of Damocles hangs above your head
- "Sword of Damocles (Externally)"

Last shot sure killed me, pour another drink
Let's drink to the last shot, and the blood on the dishes in the sink
- "The Last Shot"

 

"In the chilly hours and minutes of uncertainty I long to be in the warm hold of your loving mind..."
Donovan: Catch The Wind

 

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

 

Picture youself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies

 

Half the time, don't know if I'm awake or I'm asleep.
Half the time, I don't even care.

 

Wilco's Jeff Tweety has many

Dreamed about killing you again last night
And it felt alright to me

Via chicago

The ashtray says, you were up all night
When you went to bed with your darkest mind

Shot in the arm


I sincerely miss those heavy metal bands
We used to go see on the landing in the summer
She fell in love with the drummer, she fell in love with another
She fell in love

Heavy metal drummer

Impossible Germany
Unlikely japan
Wherever you go, wherever you land
This is still new to me
I do what i can..

 

It's too late
To fall in love with Sharon Tate,
But it's too soon
To ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

-Jim Carroll

 

Carly Simon ~ That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be

My father sits at night with no lights on
His cigarette glows in the dark.
The living room is still;
I walk by, no remark.
I tiptoe past the master bedroom where
My mother reads her magazines.
I hear her call sweet dreams,
But I forgot how to dream.

 

Janis Ian ~ "Seventeen"

I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired

The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth

 

I remember how the darkness doubled
I recall lightning struck itself

Television - Marquee Moon (Tom Verlaine)

 

Girls of fifteen
Sexually knowing
The ushers are sniffing
Eau-de-cologning

The Who - 5:15