What is your favourite opening lyric to a song?

She’s a very kinky girl…

If you didn’t care what happened to me,
And I didn’t care for you,
We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain.

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in…
(Billy Joel-Piano Man)

A long long time ago…
(Don McLean-American Pie)

Come gather round people, wherever you roam…
(Bob Dylan-The Times They Are A-Changing)

actually I can think of tonnes of good opening lines. It’s the buildup that is usually harder

@jack,love that Piano man,it really sets the scene.

JEREMIAH WAS A BULLFROG!

Sunday Monday Happy Days,Tuesday Wednesday Happy Days,Thursday Friday Happy Days.
Saturday,what a day. groovin all week with you!

Flintstones!meet the Flintstones,there the modern stonage family.

You tell me this town ain’t got no heart

Jesus wrote a blank check,
One I haven’t cashed quite yet.
I hope I’ve got a little more time.
I hope it’s not the end of the line.

You said: Send me stationary/to make me horny – Los Campesinos!, My Year In Lists

Punctured bicycle/on a hillside desolate/will nature make a man of me yet? – The Smiths, This Charming Man

I need someone to take some joy in something I do/You need a man who’s either rich or losing a screw – Belle & Sebastian, I’m Waking Up To Us

I’ll drown my beliefs/to have your baby – Radiohead, True Love Waits

My mother was a chinese trapeze artist – The Decemberists, My Mother Was a Chinese Trapese Artist

Mass romantic fool wears foster grants/his books on tape ring true/and everyone want to say i love you to someone on the radio- The New Pornographers, Mass Romantic

Who’s the television host/who understands what matters most? – The Apples in Stereo, Stephen,Stephen

I am a poor, freezingly cold soul/so far from where/I intended to go. – Morrissey, Seasick, Yet Still Docked

Baba O’Riley – The Who

Out here in the fields, I farm for my meals
I get my back into my livin’
I don’t need to fight to prove I’m right
I don’t need to be forgiven
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Mama pajama rolled out of bed and she ran to the police station—Me and Julio Down by the School Yard by Paul Simin

Karma police, arrest this man—Karma Police by Radiohead

It’s a bittersweet symphony, that’s life, trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money then you die Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve

“On a warm summer’s evenin’, on a train bound for nowhere…”

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!

“I’d like to think i’m the mess you’d wear with pride.
like some empty dress on the bed you’ve layed out for tonight.”
Band of Horses

We Are The Champions – Queen

I’ve paid my dues –
Time after time –
I’ve done my sentence
But committed no crime –
And bad mistakes
I’ve made a few
I’ve had my share of sand kicked in my face –
But I’ve come through

Guy in a skeleton costume walks up to the man in a superman suit;
runs through him with a broadsword.

This world is big and so awake. I stayed up late to hear your voice. – Track 11 (Green), R.E.M.

We, the people (hey now!) got to make the world go round, got to make the world now. – We The People (Be Altitude: Respect Yourself), The Staple Singers

Antiques! Every other sentiment an antique as obsolete as warships in the Baltic. – Faron Young (Swoon), Prefab Sprout

Whatever gets you through the night, it’s all right. It’s all right. It’s your money or life. It’s all right. It’s all right. Don’t need a sword to cut through flowers. Oh no, oh no. – Whatever Gets You Through The Night (Walls & Bridges), John Lennon (& Elton John)

Kid, stay and snip your cord off, talk and let your mind loose; can’t all think like Chekov but you’ll be O.K. – Garden of Earthly Delights (Oranges & Lemons), XTC

Time has come, what’s done is done
It’s time to move on
To another place, another space,
maybe circling some other sun
Don’t ask why, don’t ask how
I still can’t explain
So say goodbye, goodbye for now, till I see you again

4 by Bob Dylan

Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re trying to be so quiet
Visions of Johanna

Go away from my window, leave at your own chosen speed
It Ain’t Me Babe

“There must be some kind of way out of here,” said the Joker to the Thief.
All Along the Watchtower

You got alot of nerve, to say you are my friend.
When I was down, you just stood there grin-niiiiiiiing
Positively Fourth Street

“I woke up this morning with a bad hangover and my penis was missing again…”

Strangulation, I don’t wanna feel a thing.
When your hands close tight around my neck,
and force the air that I breathe,
I don’t wanna feel a thing.

Alright my 2nd favorite one just came to my head:

I am just a poor boy and my story’s seldom told…
“The Boxer” Simon and Garfunkel…

A king would trade his finest crown for love, love like this.

Stand! In the end, you’ll still be you; one that’s done all the things you set out to do. – Stand! (Stand!), Sly & The Family Stone

For something completely different, here’s the chorus from I Never Do Anything Twice, by Stephen Sondheim. Verses are narrative. From the movie, “The Seven Percent Solution.”

Once, yes, once for a lark
Twice, though, loses the spark
Once, yes, once is delicious
But twice would be vicious
Or just repetitious.
Someone’s bound to be scarred
Yes, I know that it’s hard
But, no matter the price
I never do anything twice

Or this: The Chenille Sisters version of I Wanna Be Seduced

I wanna be seduced,
I want a man to talk to me suggestively;
Wanna know he’d like me to be with him tomorrow morning
Drinkin’ hot jasmine tea.
I want him to make me laugh
Make a point about touching me when he talks
Leaving all the jealous girls in the place to
mumble in their wine and gawk.
I know it only happens when I’m napping,
Nodding in a reverie,
That I find myself a man that understands about seducing me.

I’ve got the world on a string, sittin’ on a rainbow…

We know of an ancient radiation,
that haunts dismembered constellations,
a faintly glimmering radio station.
While Frank Sinatra sings stormy weather,
the flies and spiders get along together,
cobwebs fall on an old skipping record.

Once I had it all and I held it in my hand
but it slipped through my fingers like tiny grains of sand

Pumpin’ the blood of the heart through New Orleans
She’s the mystic heat of the Bourbon Street dream
She’s just made out of flesh and bones
But let me tell you little boy you better leave her alone

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blackeyed Blonde

“Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover;
Something in the way she woos me.”
“Something,” George Harrison

“When there’s no where else to run
Is there room for one more son
One more son
If you can hold on
If you can hold on, hold on”

“East bound and down…”

We skip the light fandango? or some such, A whiter shade of Pale…

You make me come.
You make me complete.
You make me completely miserable.

Birds flying high, you know how I feel.
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel.
Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel.
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me.
And I’m feeling good.

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we’ve no place to go
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip

“It’s the cruellest joke to play…I’m so high I run in place…”

“You’ve got to trust your instinct. and let go of regret.”
311 – All Mixed Up

I have a new set:

Bruce Springsteen’s Outlaw Pete

He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail
At six months old he’d done three months in jail
Here at the bank in his diapers and his little bare baby feet
All he said was “Folks, my name is Outlaw Pete.”

I was born
In a truck
My mama died
And my daddy got drunk…

the entire monologue part of at the bottom of everything by bright eyes
i love stories!

“So there was this woman and she was, uh, on an airplane and she’s flying to meet her fiancé sailing high above the—the largest ocean on planet earth and she was seated next to this man who, you know she had tried to start conversations and really—really the only thing she heard him say was to order his bloody mary and she’s sitting there and she’s reading this really arduous magazine article about a third world country that she couldn’t even pronounce the—the name of and she’s feeling very bored and very despondent and—and then, uh, suddenly there’s this huge mechanical failure and one of the—the engines gave out and they started just falling an thirty thousand feet and the pilot’s on the microphone and he’s saying, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Oh My God, I’m Sorry”
and apologizing and she looks at the man and she—and she says, “Where are we going?” and he looks at her and he says, “We’re going to a party, it—it’s a birthday party. It’s your birthday party, happy birthday darling. We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much.” And then, uh, he starts humming this little tune and—and, uh, it kind of goes like this, it’s kinda…1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4….”

I got something to say I killed your baby today

Reel Big Fish – You Don’t Know

Well, first of all, I’d like to say fuck off
Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off!
If you don’t get it, why don’t you go
Shove your head back up your ass
And don’t waste my time
I don’t need your opinion, oh no

@uberbatman…Doesn’t matter much to me. as long as it’s dead

“I hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us. I hope we come out with a fail-safe plot to piss off the dumb few that forgave us.”

“Well, once when I was eight everything was going great until my father, he tried to kill me.”

“I like telling dirty jokes and I like smoking crystal meth, but darling I love you.”

he calls the mansion not a house but a tomb
he’s always choking from the stench and the fume
the wedding party all collapsed in the room
so send my resignation to the bride and the groom

“What can I compare you to, a favorite pair of shoes? Maybe my bright red boots, if they had wings.”

Take It From Me – The Weepies.