Songs that have great opening lines

"I don't believe in an interventionist God"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms

"You are one of God's mistakes"
Placebo - Song To Say Goodbye

etc etc etc

 

History repeats the old conceits, the glib reply the same defeats, keep your finger on important issues with Crocodile tears and a pocket full of tissues
Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief
(this one never lets up)

along with another Imperial Bedroom song - Human Hands

I been talking to the wall and it's been answering me, oh darling how I miss you.
I'm just a mere shadow of my former selfishness
I feel the silhouette of your kiss

So, So you think you can tell, heaven from hell, blue skies from pain..

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

I am on the open sea just drifting as the hours go gently by
Julie with her open blouse is gazing up into the empty sky

Brian Eno - Julie With

 

"Now that your picture's in the paper being rhythmically admired..."

Elvis Costello - Welcome To The Working Week - the first line from the first song on his first album.

 

Well, some people try to pick up girls
And get called assholes
This never happened to Pablo Picasso.

Jonathan Richman Modern Lovers

 

Timothy Leary's dead
No no no no he's outside, looking in

Moody Blues - Legend Of A Mind

 

"Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show..."

...and the three lines that follow it from 'Rednecks' by Randy Newman.

 

"Nobody cares/Nobody knows/I'm going to tell you/Just how my story goes..."

Chuck Willis, "My Story"

 

'I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now'

Or any number of Morrissey's musings?

 

Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street
Joe Jackson ~ Is She Really Going Out With Him

 

There's a man holding a megaphone.
He must have been the voice of God.
The bystanders claimed they saw angels
flying up and down the block.
They must have been attached to wires;
I seen one laying in the lawn with a broken arm.

Bright Eyes, "From A Balance Beam"

 

'please allow me to introduce myself........'etc

perfect!

 

One, two, three, fah. The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There.

also

Up on the hill
People never stare
They just don't care
Steely Dan - Aja
jerol

 

The universe is permeated with the smell of kerosene.............

The Blackout Of Gretely - Gonn

 

Down by the river
Down by the banks of the river Charles
That's where you'll find me
With all the lovers , muggers , and thieves

 

"Oh I used to be disgusted
and now I try to be amused"
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - Elvis Costello

"I wasn't born, so much as I fell out"
Lost in the Supermarket - The Clash

 

Broken windows and empty hallways
A pale dead moon in a sky streaked with grey
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today

Randy Newman

 

Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard
But I think
Oh bondage , up yours !
One...two...three...four !

X-Ray Spex

 

"I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms

"It was the third of September
That day I always remember, yes I will
Because that was the day that my daddy died"
The Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone

 

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day,
When it's cold outside in the month of May
Temptaions - My Girl

Wise men say only fools fall in love,
Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love

Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence

Across from the bar there's a pile of beer cans
Been there 27 years
Imagine all of the heartache and tears in 27 years of beers
Jimmy Bufett - Ringling Ringling

 

Well I met you at the blood bank
We were looking at the bags.

Bon Iver - Blood Bank

 

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays

Thunder Road-Springsteen

 

i see a red door and i want it painted black - paint it black

yeah a storm is threating my very life today - gimme shelter

parachute women land on me tonight - parachute woman

 

ROGER MILLER - ---------->DO-WACKA-DO​

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I hear, tell you're doin' well,​

Good things have come to you.​

I wish I had your happiness,​

And you had a do-wacka-do-wacka-do Wacka-do-wacka-do-wacka-do​

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Granpa pissed his pants again...
He don't give a damn...

----Play It All Night Long, Warren Zevon

 

**** all that we've got to get on with these...
Pink Floyd: Not Now John