Greatest opening lines of a song

My vote goes to "B-Movie" by Gill Scott-Heron, where he says "Well the first thing I wanna say is: MANDATE MY ASS!".

 

The Doors "Moonlight Drive"

Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Penetrate the evening that the
City sleeps to hide

 

Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby baby.
Baby, baby baby, b-b-b-b-b-b baby baby, baby.
Baby baby baby
Come back, baby, I wanna play house with you.

 

"I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like...
(take your pick) Coca-Cola (or) cherry cola".

Lola-The Kinks

"Long ago life was clean
Sex was bad and obscene
And the rich were so mean"

Victoria-The Kinks

Actually Ray D.'s got a million of 'em!

And I just thought of another one from the pen of Richard Penniman (Little Richard). The song is called Holy Mackerel and is starts off "Your father must think I'm a fish..."

It goes on to say "... every time I come over, he says
Holy Mackerel, is he here again?"

 

Aah, the absolute best.....


"Johnny's in the basement mixin' up the medicine
I'm on the pavement, thinking about the government"

Subterranean Homesick Blues -Bob Dylan

 

Let my inspiration flow
in token lines suggesting rhythm
that will not forsake me
till my tale is told and done

- Grateful Dead, Terrapin Station (Lady With A Fan)\

or Comes A Time by the Dead

Comes a time
when the blind man takes your hand
says: don't you see?
got to make it somehow
on the dreams you still believe

 

Lou Reed on "Waiting For The Man', from live 'Take No Prisoners'...

'I sing when you shut up'.

 

Well, I thought about the Army
Dad said "Son, you're ****in' high"

 

Glad to see another Ben Folds Fan here. I really should pick up that DVD...

 

Mrs Robinson Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do
Sweet Baby James- There is a young cowboy lives on the range
Johnny B. Goode- It's really a killer guitar riff but the vocals arent bad either

 

A whirlwind comes arising, across the cities of the plain.
There's no swimming in the heavy water, no singing in the acid rain.
Red alert, red alert!

 

A-one for the money...two for the show...three to get ready...now go cat go...

Elvis Presley

Well.......that'll be the day.

Buddy Holly

 

Tom Waits :-

Diamonds on my Windshield

Well these diamonds on my windshield
And these tears from heaven
Well I'm pulling into town on the Interstate
I got a steel train in the rain
And the wind bites my cheek through the wing
And it's these late nights and this freeway flying
It always makes me sing


or even Frank's Wild Years

Well Frank settled down in the Valley
and hung his wild years
on a nail that he drove through
his wife's forehead


I recon you could take any Tom Waits track and make a really classic Black & White B movie from it.

Have fun,

Gordon

 

"You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, 'Who is that man?' "...

(Ballad of a Thin Man -- Bob Dylan)
One of those songs where each line is a classic!

 

You need cooling, baby I'm not fooling

 

John Cale (Guts) - "The bugger in the short sleeves fu**ed my wife. Did it quick & split".

Richard & Linda Thompson (Smiffy's Glass Eye) - "Smiffy was a little boy, was different from the rest, he had one eye pointing east and one pointing west.."

and for no reason other than I think it's fun...

RHCP (Power Of Equality) - "Hey batta batta hey batta batta hey... SWING!"

 

In case of Sonic Attack on your district, follow these rules...

If you are making love it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm simultaniously...

 

Oh, the snot has caked against my pants.
It has turned into crystal.
There's a bluebird sitting on a branch.
I guess I'll take my pistol.

 

I tell ya, Carl Perkins can't get no respect.... "Well it's a-one for the money ... two for the show ... three to get ready, now go cat go."

 

Some of my "greatest opening lines":

"I got you
That's all I want"

"When the truth is found to be lies
You know the joy within you dies"

"You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend"

"Picture yourself on a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies"

"Bus stop/One day she's there/I say, 'Please share my umbrella.'
Bus stop/Bus goes, she stays/Love grows under my umbrella."

"Some folks are born
Made to wave the flag
Ooh, the red white and blue
But when the band plays 'Hail to the chief'
Ooh, they point the cannon at you."

"He said 'I'll love you 'til I die.'
She said 'You'll forget in time.'
As the years went slowly by
She still preyed upon his mind..."

"Blame it all on my roots
I showed up in boots
And ruined your black-tie affair."

"Well, no one told me about her
The way she lied"

"Well excuse me, but I think you've got my chair."

 

Round round get around
I get around
Get around round round
I get around

Beach Boys---"I Get Around" (as if you didn't know)

 

Hendrix – Bold As Love
Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground

Doors - Soft Parade
When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
You cannot petition the lord with prayer!

 

"The warden threw a party at the county jail" - Jailhouse Rock

 

Well she was just seventeen, you know what I mean
and the way she looked was way beyond compare - Paul

Well I'd rather see you dead little girl
than to be with another man - John