Best Opening Line to Any Song

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Best Opening Line to Any Song

...and I'm seeing opening stanzas all over the place. Maybe, maybe the opening line is two lines with a comma connecting it, but it sure as hell isn't a stanza. If you need the whole stanza to know what the hell the song is, then it doesn't have that great of an opening line.

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"Your baby doesn't love you anymore" (damn Roy went straight to the point)

"Well I hear the train a' comin'"

"I was born in a crossfire hurricane"

"In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream"

"My name's John Le Pettimore/Same as my daddy and his daddy before"
 
On the streets where you live, girls talk about their social lives.
They're made of lipstick, plastic, and paint, a touch of sable in their eyes.
 
4 plus pages, and nobody posts................

"..........Well the honky tonks in Texas were my natural second home......"


What the hell is wrong with you people???????
 
"Whiskey bottles, brand new cars, oak tree you're in my way"

"Seems like yesterday I was here. Dreaming my life away, and drinkin' beer"
 
I'll try to keep these to ONE line.......


You can never give the finger to the blind.

She's got a smile that seem to me, reminds me of childhood memories.

Holly came from Miami F-L-A

Ground control to Major Tom

In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway american dream

When routine bites hard

Freaky girl , can i take you home?
your purple hair looks good
but i wanna comb
out all the knots,
take off your clothes
connect the dots.

(OK, so i cheated on the last one)
 
Yesterday was Judgement Day, how'd you do, how DID you do?

JoJo was a man who thought he was a woman...

I shot the sheriff, but I didn't kill no deputy.

What made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

As I got on a city bus and found myself a seat,
I thought I saw my future bride walking down the street.

Well, I ain't afraid of dyin'; it's the thought of bein' dead.

When I die, I may not go to Heaven...

I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis...
 
Two great ones from Summerteeth:

The ashtray says, you were up all night

and

I dreamed about killing you again last night, and it felt all right to me
 
I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste, a flannel for my face
Pajamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case.

I've spent a lifetime making up my mind to be
More than the measure of what I thought others could see.

Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying.

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry.

Danny went home and killed himself last night.

Like a bird on a wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir.

Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street.

There's a strange one in the jungle
And I think I here him calling my name.
 
I agree that this is supposed to be "opening line"

And I still say the best is

"Well I woke Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt"

Followed by the best second line:
"And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert"
 
Cash had some good ones.

How about:
Don't call my name out your window I'm leaving.
I won't even turn my head.
 
Whiskey river take my mind

It was the 3rd of september - a day I'll always remember

i am the son and the heir of shyness that is criminally vulgar
 
Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danviille Train
Till Stoneman's Cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
 
You're breakin' my heart,
Tearing it apart.
So **** youuuu!!

From "Niellson Son of Schmiellson"

But the WORST EVER is;

Hallabaloo kinek kinek
Hallabaloo kinek kinek...
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