Songs that have great opening lines

She's a dancer
A romancer
I'm a Capricorn and she's a Cancer

 

Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Were Made For Walking.

You keep saying you got something for me
Something you call love but confess
You've been a'messin' where you shouldn't 've been a'messin'
And now someone else is getting all your best

 

From the same pen, three or four years apart


`i would go out tonight, but I haven't got a stitch to wear`

'take me out tonight, where there`s music and there`s people and they're young and alive`

 

A little context helps with this one too, as it's author was, what, 25 when he wrote it? I guess he was old for someone who had only 27 years to live.

 

If you want, I'll sell you a life story, about a man who's at loggerheads with his past all the time

The La's, Son of a Gun

 

"Well the first days are the hardest days. Don't you worry anymore. Cause when life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door."

"If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell"

 

"Women think I'm tasty, but they're always tryin' to waste me." - Tumblin' Dice

NB: Jagger rarely sings this correctly in concert.

 

F.Z. - "Catholic girls with a tiny little mustache"

I think this is really hard to beat.

 

"Please allow me to introduce myself , I'm a man of wealth and taste"

 

"I'm going out sleepwalking/
Where mute memories start talking/"
- Elliott Smith on 2:45 AM

 

"Oh War!, it's been done before"

 

MC5

"Kick out the jams, mother****er!"

 

A bottle white , a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose' instead

 

"Do you mean this horny creep?"... Depeche Mode

 

"If you had not have fallen then I would not have found you " - Willie Nelson

"Why they wanna see my spine mommy?" - Ween

"And what costume shall the poor girl wear" - Velvet Underground

"For the sake of man he has forsaken his whole tan " - Sparks

 

Certainly memorable: The world is a vampire...

 

I feel so good I'm going to
Break somebody's heart tonight
I feel so good I'm going to
Take someone apart tonight

Richard Thompson - Feel so good

 

..and the meek shall inherit the Earth..

Rush: 2112

 

Bee Gees

"New York Mining Disaster 1941"

In the event of something happening to me
there is something I would like you all to see
It's just a photograph of someone that I knew

 

Bee Gees

I started a joke, which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see that the joke was on me, oh no

 

My mommy told me
If I were goody
That she would buy me
A rubber dolly

"Loco Mosquito" - Iggy Pop

 

Loretta Lynn

Well, Portland Oregon and sloe gin fizz
If that ain't love, then tell me what is, uh huh, uh huh

 

Well, I heard they castrated Castro
I heard they cut off everything he had
What a dirty low down thing to do
To mess him up like that

They dumped him in a jungle
In the land of the sugar cane
Ever since the day they fiddled around
I said he ain’t never been the same

 

Jonny Lang

You sing a song, while sitting at a red light
You think of home, while sitting at a red light

 

God said to Abraham "Kill me your son" Abe said "God you must be puttin me on"

-Bob Dylan Hwy 61 Revisited (1965)

If he can stand to leave / I can stand to watch him go.

Bessie Smith (1927)


Temperature is rising/fever is high/Can't see no future/can't see no sky

-John Lennon Cold Turkey (1969)


Turn off your mind relax and float down stream.


The Beatles (John) Tomorrow Never Knows (1966)