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What are the Best Opening Lines on a Song Ever?

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  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,850
    *********
    ********
    ******* ***** and ******

    Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury
  • Valley_floyd_red
    Valley_floyd_red Posts: 3,194
    "I decree today that life
    Is simply taking and not giving
    England is mine - it owes me a living"
    #

    Coincidentally that song was my ear worm this morning and I was thinking what a great song it was all day today.
  • Sussex_Addick
    Sussex_Addick Posts: 741
    edited December 2009
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]The Milky Bar kid is big and strong ....

    How dare you get that wrong Oggy! Deep shame on you :-)

    "The Milky Bar kid is strong and tough,
    and only the best is good enough"
  • Sussex_Addick
    Sussex_Addick Posts: 741
    [cite]Posted By: shirty5[/cite]You, I wanna take you to a Gay Bar.

    Gay Bar - Electric Six

    Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

    Rabbit - Chas and Dave

    Mouldy old dough

    Mouldy Old Dough - Lt Pigeon

    I see all of those bands worked hard at naming their song!
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,752
    ' I love a good bum on a woman it makes my day'

    Jake Thakray - On again on again
  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658
    It was christmas eve babe
    In the drunk tank
    An old man said to me: won't see another one
    And then they sang a song
    The rare old mountain dew
    I turned my face away and dreamed about you.

    Fairytale of New York: The Pogues
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    'twang twang twang twang

    twang twang twang twang

    twang twang twang twang twang twang twang twang twang twang etc'

    twang twang twang twang twang

    'Because They're young' , Duane Eddy!
  • uncle
    uncle Posts: 4,209
    Hey you dont watch that watch this,this is the heavy heavy monster sound one step beyond
  • uncle
    uncle Posts: 4,209
    My mother said that i never should,
    play with the naughty rude girls in the wood.

    Ivor bigun and the red nose band
  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    Some people might say my life is in a rut, But I'm quite happy with what I got -

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  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,615
    Someone somewhere has unglued our epoxy
    now I'm kissing you by proxy,
    hope you don't mind
    Intermittently by The Barenaked Ladies
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream/At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines — Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run". New Jersey's State government were going make this song the official NJ youth anthem until someone pointed out the reference to suicide in it.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,133
    "I met her in a club down in old Soho
    Where you drink Champagne and it tastes
    Just like Cherry Cola"
  • 24 Red
    24 Red Posts: 578
    Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine
    I'm on the pavement thinking 'bout the government

    Another Dylan entry.

    or

    The best things in life are free
    But you can keep them for the birds and bees
    I want money - that's what I want

    or

    Cheap holidays in other peoples' misereeee

    or

    I hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us
    I hope we come up with a fail-safe plot to piss off the dumb few that forgave us
    I hope the fences we mended fall down beneath their own weight
    And I hope we hang on past the last exit - I hope it's already too late

    Mountain Goats in black humour mode
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Pretty Women Out Walking With Gorillas Down My Street - Joe Jackson
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,934
    Starry, starry night.
    Paint your palette blue and grey,
    Look out on a summer's day,
    With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
    Shadows on the hills,
    Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
    Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
    In colors on the snowy linen land.

    Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
    How you suffered for your sanity,
    How you tried to set them free.
    They would not listen, they did not know how.
    Perhaps they'll listen now.
  • cambs_addick
    cambs_addick Posts: 104
    So here I am once more in the playground of the broken hearts
    One more experience, one more entry in a diary, self-penned
    Yet another emotional suicide overdosed on sentiment and pride
    Too late to say I love you, too late to re-stage the play
    Abandoning the relics in my playground of yesterday
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,133
    I'm waiting for my man
    Twenty-six dollars in my hand
    Up to Lexington 125
    Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Well if you ever plan to motor west,
    Just take my way , that's the highway that's the best.
    Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,133
    Excuse me while I light my spliff
    Oh God I got to get a lift
    From reality I just can drift
    That's why I'm staying with that spliff
    Easy Skanking

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  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,092
    Purple haze all in my brain
    Lately things just don't seem the same
    Actin' funny, but I don't know why
    'Scuse me while I kiss the sky

    Hendrix purple haze
  • sygonrima
    sygonrima Posts: 236
    [cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]Well if you ever plan to motor west,
    Just take my way , that's the highway that's the best.
    Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.

    Nah!

    Well if you ever go to Shoeburyness
    take the A road the O.K. road that's the best
    go moterin' on the A13.

    Billy Brag quality lifting of other peoples lyrics again.
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,934
    I thought about Lola & fairytale in new York but this one does it for me:

    It begins with a blessing and ends with a curse,
    making life easy by making it worse...

    'Why are we Sleeping' Gudjieff inspired lyric by Kevin Ayers/Soft Machine 1
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,322
    great shout on ''waiting for my man'' six a bag

    ''Standing on a corner
    Suitcase in my hand
    Jane shes in her dress
    Me im in a rock and roll band''
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,939
    Well I built my life around you, did what I thought was right.
    But you never cared about me, now I’ve seen the light.
    Oh darling, there ain’t no pleasin’ you.

    Chas n Dave
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,939
    "Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea,
    for the Devil sends the beast with wrath,
    because he knows the time is short...
    Let him who hath understanding reckon
    the number of the beast for it is a human number,
    it's number is Six hundred and sixty six"

    Maiden
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,939
    Here I lie in a lost and lonely part of town. Held in time.
    In a world of tears I slowly drown. Goin'home.
    I just can't make it all alone.
    I really should be holding you.
    Holding you. Loving you loving you.

    BG's
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,515
    "God save our gracious Queen."
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    90 posts and I can't believe no one mentioned the best lyric of the noughties.

    "It's Britney, bitch"
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,515
    Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.
    Kerdidderly ei-de-ooo I love youhoo............. kerddidderley ei-de-ooo I love you.

    Taxi for SoundAs...!!??

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