Songs that have great opening lines

“Guess I should’ve known by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn’t last”
Prince
Little Red Corvette

 

"I think I'm gonna be sad"
Lennon/Beatles
'Ticket to Ride'

"Half of what I say is meaningless"
Lennon/Beatles
'Julia'

"Mother, you had me but I never had you"
Lennon
'Mother'

"Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself"
Jagger/Rolling Stones
'Sympathy For The Devil'

 

Do you believe in magic?

 

"I'm kicking off from center field
A question of being down for the game
The one shot deal don't matter
And the other one's the same"
Van Morrison..."Bulbs".

 

“She used to work in a diner
Never saw a woman look finer
I used to order just to watch her
walk across the room”

- “Unknown Legend”, Neil Young

 

What the hell is wrong with you tonight?

 

Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
I'm on fire
Tell me now baby is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
I'm on fire

 

When a man loves a woman
Can't keep his mind on nothin' else
He'd trade the world
For a good thing he's found
If she is bad, he can't see it
She can do no wrong
Turn his back on his best friend
If he puts her down

 

No New Year's Day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring, no song to sing
In fact here's just another ordinary day
No April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of June
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to you
I just called to say I love you

 

I know your eyes in the morning sun
I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
And the moment that you wander far from me
I want to feel you in my arms again
And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show
How deep is your love, how deep is your love

 

This one came to mind first.

 

Standing on the water, casting your bread, while the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowin'.

If you see something that looks like a star and it's shooting up out of the ground, and your head is spinning from a loud guitar.

Yes we're gonna have a wing-ding, a summer smoker underground. It's just a dugout that my dad built in case the Reds decide to push the button down.

Hello, give me missing persons. They say, "what is it that you need?" I say, oh I need her so. They say, "you got to stop your pleading."

Silhouettes and shadows. Watch the revolution. No more free steps to heaven. It's no game.

A cloud of eiderdown draws around me softening the sound. Sleepy time when I lie with my love by my side and she's breathing low.

 

"I am the God of hellfire and I bring you------fire!"

Arthur Brown

 

Locked in a room, strapped to a hollow chair

 

There's a moon in the sky. It's called the moon.

The B-52s

 

In the next world war
In a jack knifed juggernaut
I am born again

Airbag - Radiohead

 

I'm so tired of working every day
Now the weekend's come
I'm gonna throw my troubles away
If you've got the cab fare
Mister you'll do all right
I want to see the bright lights tonight
-I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard & Linda Thompson

I've known for a long time
The kind of girl you are
Of a smile that covers tear drops
The way your head yields to your heart
Of the things you've kept inside
That most girls couldn't bear
I've known you for a long time
But I've just begun to care
- Propinquity
Michael Nesmith

When you were young
You were the king of carrot flowers
And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees
In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet
- The King Of Carrot Flowers Pt 1
Neutral Milk Hotel

You've been sleeping in a field but you look real rested
You set out to outrage but you can't get arrested
You say your image is new but it looks well tested
You're lost without a crowd yet you go your own way
- Misfits
The Kinks

 

1
Julie got some ecstasy,
she laid down on the steering wheel
Love comes to the first thing love sees
Love comes to the first thing that makes it real, makes it real

Rickie Lee Jones

2
I'm leavin' my fam'ly
Leavin' all my friends
My body's at home
But my heart's in the wind
Where the clouds are like headlines
On a new front page sky
My tears are salt water
And the moon's full and high

Tom Waits

 

Do you curse where you come from? Do you swear in the night?
Would it mean much to you if I treat you right?

Nick Drake: Hazy Jane (1)

 

"You've got a lot of nerve / to say you are my friend." (Dylan has so many great opening lines.)

"The screen door slams / Mary's dress waves."

"Let me run with you tonight / I'll take you on a moonlight ride."

"Baby don't it feel like heaven right now?"

"The whole place is dark."

 

''One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces''
- Pink Floyd, One of These Days

 

Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another you've been messing around.

- REO Speedwagon

 

David Bowie - “Station to Station”:

The return of the thin, white duke, throwing darts in lovers’ eyes

 

"Where would you rather be? Anywhere... Anywhere but here
When will the time be right? Anytime but now"

Double Agent
Rush

 

Ridin' the storm out-waiting for the fallout-on a full moon night in the Rocky Mountain winter