Songs that have great opening lines

And if I say I really loved you
And was glad you came along
And you were here today
Ooo ooo ooo, for you were in my song

McCartney

 

"I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be
You're gonna give my love to me"

Not Fade Away

 

"You think you're strong when you're only straining"

-The Thirteenth Floor Elevators

 

There I go, there I go, there I go
There I go
Pretty baby, you are the soul who snaps my control

Moody's Mood - lyrics by Eddie Jefferson

 

A house not a home was a picture Satan painted

Ira Louvin

 

"Crimson flames tied through my ears..."

 

I am an American aquarium drinker
I assassin down the avenue
I'm hiding out in the big city blinking
What was I thinking when I let go of you?

 

It's been A Hard Days Night...

 

What is this that stands before me? Figure in black which points at me - Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath.

 

A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind

 

Broken lines, broken strings,
Broken threads, broken springs,
Broken idols, broken heads,
People sleeping in broken beds
Ain't no use jiving
Ain't no use joking
Everything is broken

Broken bottles, broken plates,
Broken switches, broken gates,
Broken dishes, broken parts,
Streets are filled with broken hearts
Broken words never meant to be spoken,
Everything is broken

 

1. Yes I understand
   That every life must end
   As we sit alone
   I know someday we must go
   
   Yeah I'm a lucky man
   To count on both hands
   The ones I love
   Some folks just have one
   Yeah others they got none
   
   Stay with me
   Let's just breathe
   

 

1. Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time
   Maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you
   Maybe I'm amazed at the the way you pulled me out of time
   And hung me on a line
   Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you
   
   Maybe I'm a man and maybe I'm a lonely man
   Who's in the middle of something
   That he doesn't really understand
   
   Maybe I'm a man and maybe you're the only woman
   Who could ever help me
   Baby won't you help me understand
   

 

In the chilly hours and minutes
Of uncertainty
I want to be
In the warm hold of your loving mind

 

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they've turned back time,
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime...

--Al Stewart, Year of the Cat

 

She was beautiful as southern skies the night he met her.
She was married to someone.
He was doggedly determined that he would get her
He was old, he was young.
From time to time he'd tip his heart,
But each time she withdrew...

--Paul Simon, Train in the Distance

 

Guess your dreams always end.
They don’t rise up, just descend,
But I don’t care anymore,
I’ve lost the will to want more,
I’m not afraid not at all,
I watch them all as they fall,
But I remember when we were young

 

Red--Coming Apart

The road was brighter at the beginning
When I lived inside a dream

 

"I was born in a crossfire hurricane" - Jumpin Jack Flash

 

"I can't help it 'bout the shape I'm in, I can't sing, I ain't pretty, and my legs are thin.
But don't ask me what I think of you; I might not give the answer that you want me to"

Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac) "Oh Well".

 

"A squid eating dough in a polyethelene bag, Is fast and bulbous, got me?

Captain Beefheart - Pachuco Cadaver

 

My parents split up in the first grade, my father never did come back. My sister liked John Travolta, but I wanted Billy Jack


Jesse Malin - Almost Grown

 

Somebody had to have posted this already, but just in case...

"Vicious. You hit me with a flower."

Lou Reed 'Vicious'.

 

Sister got bit by a copperhead snake in the woods behind the house/ And nobody was home so I grabbed her foot and I sucked that poison out

Victoria Willams - Summer of Drugs

 

Well a person can work up a mean, mean thirst after a hard day of nothing much at all

The Replacements - Here Comes a Regular