Songs that have great opening lines

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Lawrence Schulman, Nov 23, 2012.

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  1. Jerryb

    Jerryb Senior Member

    Location:
    New Jersey
    Imagine there's no heaven
    It's easy if you try
    No hell below us
    Above us only sky
    Imagine all the people living for today

    Lennon
     
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  2. Larry Mc

    Larry Mc Forum Dude

    If you can just get your mind together
    Then come on across to me
    We'll hold hands and then we'll watch the sunrise
    From the bottom of the sea
     
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  3. vivatones

    vivatones Forum Resident

    "He wore that cowboy hat to cover up his horns"
    Brokenheartsville - Joe Nichols
     
  4. rene smalldridge

    rene smalldridge Senior Member

    Location:
    manhattan,kansas
    Some people like water
    Some people like wine
    But I like the taste
    Of straight strychnine

    The Sonics
     
  5. Spirit - Nature's Way

    "Nature's way of telling you something is wrong...."
     
  6. stumpy

    stumpy Forum Resident

    Location:
    South of Nashville
    I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie
    A brand new house on the road side, and it's a-made out of rattlesnake hide
    Got a band new chimney put on top, and it's a-made out of human skull
    Come on take a little walk with me baby, and tell me who do you love?
    Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley

    Comparable to:

    I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
    And I howled at my ma in the driving rain
    Jumpin' Jack Flash - Stones
     
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  7. rene smalldridge

    rene smalldridge Senior Member

    Location:
    manhattan,kansas
    A great pick !!!!
     
  8. dave-gtr

    dave-gtr Forum Resident

    Out here in the fields...
    I fight for my meals.....
    I get my back into my livin'...

    The first time I heard "Baba O'Riley", at the tender age of 15, it stopped me in my tracks. Hearing it 33 years later, it still stirs emotions in my soul.
     
  9. charlie W

    charlie W EMA Level 10

    Location:
    Area Code 254
    Prince-1999. It's printed on the back of the album in big letters.

    I was dreaming when I wrote this so please forgive me if it goes astray. But when I woke up this morning and I could had sworn it was judgment day. The sky was all purple, there were people running everywhere, trying to run from the destruction but you know I didn't even care because they say 2000 zero zero party over oops out of time so tonight I gonna party like it's 1999.
     
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  10. Galley

    Galley Forum Resident

    Stairs by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

    I lit a fire with the love you left behind,
    And it burned wild and crept up the mountainside.
    I followed your ashes into outer space
    I can't look out the window,
    I can't look at this place,
    I can't look at the stars,
    They make me wonder where you are
     
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  11. Jerryb

    Jerryb Senior Member

    Location:
    New Jersey
    I fought against the bottle
    But I had to do it drunk
    Took my diamond to the pawnshop
    But that don’t make it junk.

    That Don't Make It Junk-Leonard Cohen
     
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  12. anodyne

    anodyne Forum Resident

    John Wesley Harding, "Sussex Ghost Story":

    After I had killed my wife, and by the jury been acquitted,
    I resolved to change my life and try to lead a life less wicked


    Jason Isbell, "Alabama Pines":

    Well I moved into this room, if you can call it that, a week ago
    I never do what I'm supposed to do, hardly even know my name anymore
    When no one calls it out, it kind of vanishes away
    And I can't get to sleep at night -- the parking lot's so loud and bright
    The A/C hasn't worked in twenty years -- probably never made a single person cold
    But I can't say the same for me, I've done it many times
     
  13. Slokes

    Slokes Cruel But Fair

    Location:
    Greenwich, CT USA
    I thought it was "...rush in"
     
  14. jimjim

    jimjim Forum Resident

    "She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge.
    She studied sculpture at St Martin's College.
    That's where I.....caught her eye"

    Pulp - Common People.
     
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  15. Beattles

    Beattles Senior Member

    Location:
    Florence, SC
    My bad!! Thanks.
     
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  16. dbes2626

    dbes2626 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Charlotte, NC, USA
    "I went home with the waitress, like I always do.
    How was I to know she was with the Russians, too?"
    - Warren Zevon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
     
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  17. Queen - Death On Two Legs...

    You suck my blood like a leech
    You break the law and you preach
    Screw my brain till it hurts
    You've taken all my money
    And you want more
    Misguided old mule with your pig headed rules
    With your narrow minded cronies
    Who are fools of the first division
    Death on two legs
    You're tearing me apart
    Death on two legs
    You've never had a heart of your own
    Kill joy bad guy big talking small fry
    You're just an old barrow boy
    Have you found a new toy to replace me'
    Can you face me'
    But now you can kiss my ass goodbye
     
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  18. I Love Music

    I Love Music Forum Resident

    It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
    I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
    And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
    And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
    And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
    "Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

    Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
     
  19. Vidiot

    Vidiot Now in 4K HDR!

    Location:
    Hollywood, USA
    One I just heard the other day (when I was having a bad day), and the opening made me smile:

    Just take those old records off the shelf...
    I'll sit and listen to 'em by myself...
    Today's music ain't got the same soul...
    I like that old time rock and roll.

    Not a lot of songs can do that for me these days.
     
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  20. spindly

    spindly Forum Resident

    Location:
    Chicago, IL
    Who does not adore the sound
    Of music in the names of towns
    To build a city on such picturesque ground

    Prefab Sprout - "Dublin"

     
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  21. Mai Tem Baht

    Mai Tem Baht Forum Resident

    Location:
    Phuket
    "Where did the bastard run
    Is he still around?"

    Steely Dan: Everything you did.
     
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  22. margaritatoldtom

    margaritatoldtom Well-Known Member

    Location:
    tucson az
    good to see so much costello in this thread- guess i shouldn't be surprised!

    here's a couple that i love-
    'he came dancin' across the water with his galleons and guns, looking for a new world and a palace in the sun' 'cortez the killer', neil young

    'some kinda love, margerita told tom. between thought and expression lies a lifetime' 'some kinda love' the velvet underground

    'he's a fine figure of a man and handsome too, and his eyes are on the secret places he'd like to undo' ' i hope you're happy now' elvis costello

    cheers,
    rob
     
  23. Macman

    Macman Senior Member

    "I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road, searchin' in the sun for another overload." -- Wichita Lineman.
     
  24. dbacon

    dbacon Forum Resident

    Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet ?

    Visions of Johanna, Bob Dylan
     
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  25. bfraizer

    bfraizer Member

    Location:
    venice, fl. usa
    "If everybody had an ocean"... Surfin USA
     
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