Best opening lines in a song

[LustForLeith]

The Levellers 15 Years popped up on my Spotify and it got me thinking of the best opening lines in songs. I’m a big fan of this one and “I never was a violent man said the man at the bar with his head in his hands.”

It got me thinking of other great openings in songs. I love Aftershow from The Courteners, which was also the first song on their debut album “The walk home from barbecue is so very long when I’m walking with you. The sun is coming up and it’s coming to light that me and you were never that tight.”

Also, for sheer craziness I also like Wishing Well from Terrance Trent D’arby “Kissing like a bandit stealing time, underneath a sycamore tree”!!

I’m probably going to spend a lot of time going through songs in my Spotify now!

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

N-trance

When I hold you baby
Feel your heartbeat close to me
Want to stay in your arms forever
Only love can set you free

[easty]

Did you see the stylish kids in the riot, shovelled up like muck, set the night on fire

[Hibee87]

Did you see the stylish kids in the riot, shovelled up like muck, set the night on fire

:aok: Cracking tune from a cracking Album.


'Son, Im 30. I only went with your mother cause shes dirty. And I don't have a decent bone in me. What you get is just what you see'.

[Pretty Boy]

Anticipation has a habit to set you up
For disappointment in evening but
Tonight there'll be some love

[Just Alf]

The bells in Hell's Bells, was awesome live. .... not exactly a "line", but you DID mention "openings" in your OP. :greengrin

[Mibbes Aye]

Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste.

[Mibbes Aye]

I am the son...and the heir...of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

[Killiehibbie]

Just what is it that you want to do?

[JeMeSouviens]

I am the son...and the heir...of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

I always liked "Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow, boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear".

[Hiber-nation]

I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste, a flannel for my face
Pyjamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case
I said to my reflection "Let's get out of this place"

[JeMeSouviens]

I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste, a flannel for my face
Pyjamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case
I said to my reflection "Let's get out of this place"

I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham ...

This thread has got me spotifying for the afternoon. :greengrin

[Onceinawhile]

Straight outta Compton
Crazy Mother*****r named Ice Cube
from the gang called *****s with attitude.

[MagicSwirlingShip]

There must be some way out of here,
Said the joker to the thief

[Bangkok Hibby]

Goin' home late last night
Suddenly I got a fright
Yeah I looked through a window and surprised what I saw
A fairy with boots out dancing with a dwarf
All right now!

[Bangkok Hibby]

"Hello darkness my old friend"

[Bangkok Hibby]

"Some people call me the space cowboy, some call me the gangster of love"

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

"Hello darkness my old friend"

A regular poster on the punting thread will concur. 😪

[LustForLeith]

I thought if another couple

I will not fall nor falter, I shall succeed

And

Out my bed by eight am

Out my head by half past ten

[Carheenlea]

“It was the biggest cock you'd ever seen,
But you've no idea where that cock has been.
You said you were careful - you never were with me.
I heard you did it four times but johnnies come in packs of three.”

Arab Strap - ‘packs of three’

[Just Jimmy]

I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham ...

This thread has got me spotifying for the afternoon. :greengrinFirst one I thought of!

“You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar"

"hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again"

It was Christmas Eve babe, in the drunk tank, an old man said to me"

"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away"

the kinks also have so many great ones. but one of the best must be my favourite artic monkeys song;

you used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress.

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[Just Jimmy]

don't start me talking... I could talk all night

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[Dalianwanda]

I can't stand it, I know you planned it
I'mma set it straight, this Watergate

or

If you're havin' girl problems, I feel bad for you, son
I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one

or

Well it happened years ago,
When you lived on Stanhope Road.
We listened to your sister,
When she came home from school,
'cause she was two years older,
And she had boys in her room.
We listened outside and heard her.

[bingo70]

“She used to get it in her fish nets....now she only gets it in her night dress.....”

[LustForLeith]

“Loving you isn’t the right thing to do
How can I ever change things that I feel
If I could maybe I'd give you my world
How can I when you won't take it from me”

Or

“I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real”

Or

“Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol”

[Northernhibee]

Libraries gave us power, then work came and made us free. What price now for a shallow piece of dignity?

[Northernhibee]

The future teaches us to be alone, the present to be afraid and cold, so if they can shoot rabbits, then we can shoot fascists?

[MagicSwirlingShip]

Wake up you sleepy head
Put on some clothes, shake up your bed
Put another log on the fire for me
I've made some breakfast and coffee

[Jim44]

And she pours herself another cup of coffee
As she contemplates the stain across the wall .....

[Mibbes Aye]

“Loving you isn’t the right thing to do
How can I ever change things that I feel
If I could maybe I'd give you my world
How can I when you won't take it from me”

Or

“I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real”

Or

“Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol”

Cash's version of 'Hurt' is haunting.

[LustForLeith]

The future teaches us to be alone, the present to be afraid and cold, so if they can shoot rabbits, then we can shoot fascists?

What about

Life has been unfaithful
And it all promised so so much

[marinello59]

Warburton’s a fanny.

Unbeatable as an opening line. :greengrin

[MSK]

Curse Curse
James

In my hotel room
Sounds from next door
Someone's getting laid
God's name's proclaimed
The end is on its way
Turned on ashamed
I turn up the TV
Copa Del Rey
Messi shoots and scores
A hundred thousand came

[Bangkok Hibby]

"My heart was broken"

[LustForLeith]

Sometimes you’re better off dead
There’s a gun in your hand and it’s pointing at your head

[Northernhibee]

There’s a girl in the crowd and she’s bawling her eyes out, only girl in the town with her fingers in eyelids

[Future17]

Great thread. I've got loads of favourites, but I'll start with:

"You walked into the party, like you were walking onto a yacht."

[patch1875]

Manah manah.

[yonder1875]

Did you see the stylish kids in the riot, shovelled up like muck, set the night on fire

This tune provided us with an iconic banner on that day.

[Hibby70]

Sup up your beer and collect your fags

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

There's no point in asking you'll get no reply.

[bigwheel]

Manah manah.

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[bigwheel]

Always loved Funkadelic’s...


Mother earth is pregnant for the third time.....
For you all have knocked her up


And Queen’s

“Is this the real life, or is this just fantasy...”

[BS44]

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think

[Billy Whizz]

I didn’t know what day it was, when you walked into the room

[Onceinawhile]

Don't call it a comeback
I've been here for years.

[WoreTheGreen]

It’s only just begun

[patch1875]

And now, the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain

[Just Jimmy]

If you wake up and don't want to smile
If it takes just a little while
Open your eyes and look at the day
You'll see things in a different way

[heretoday]

Don't wish it away
Don't look at it like it's forever

[Mixu62]

Sheriff fatman started out in business as a granny farmer
He was infamous for 15 minutes and appeared on Panorama
He somehow got himself onboard the starship enterprise allowance scheme
With a Prince of Wales award for selling valium and amphetamine

[Hibrandenburg]

"So you think you can tell, heaven from hell".

[MagicSwirlingShip]

Home, is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me round

[Hiber-nation]

She unscrews the top of a new whisky bottle
And shuffles about in her candlelit hovel
Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens
She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens

[bringbackbenny]

There is no Castration fear

[LustForLeith]

Maybe I’ve forgotten the names and the address
Of everyone I’ve ever known it’s nothing I regret

[Hibby70]

Maybe I’ve forgotten the names and the address
Of everyone I’ve ever known it’s nothing I regret

Spooky, that's just been on my Spotify.

[Jim44]

I follow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change .....

[Smartie]

Left a good job in the city,
Workin' for The Man ev'ry night and day,
And I never lost one minute of sleepin',
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been.

[NGP]

My fave 3 -
I met someone at the dog show.

It doesn't matter if we all die.

I was thinking of you, when I jerked off into my sock last night.

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

Well since my baby left me.

[Alfiembra]

On a dark distant highway, cool wind in my hair

I have a mansion forget the price, ain’t never been there they tell me it’s nice.

or

My heart was broken

[LustForLeith]

Spooky, that's just been on my Spotify.

Good taste!

Even more spooky I’m sure it’s the anniversary of the album being released

[heretoday]

Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.

[Peevemor]

Wam! Bam! Mon chat, splatch gît sur mon lit
A bouffé sa langue en buvant tous mon whisky

[Peevemor]

I'd never been lucky with girls I confess
Don't know who to blame for my lack of success
'Cause even with ones up the back of a bus
There was always the risk of a slap in the puss

[BS44]

Tear me apart
And boil my bones
I’ll not rest
Till she’s lost her throne
My aim is true
My message is clear
It’s curtains for you
Elizabeth, my dear

[Hiber-nation]

Roadrunner, roadrunner,
Going faster miles an hour
Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop,
With the radio on...

[Fuzzywuzzy]

I saw her standin' on her front lawn just twirlin' her baton
Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died

[Pedantic_Hibee]

My fave 3 -
I met someone at the dog show.

It doesn't matter if we all die.

I was thinking of you, when I jerked off into my sock last night.

That’s only two, and thanks for the compliment.

[LustForLeith]

There’s probably a shout of a new thread for great songs by acts most people have never heard of. The band Theme Park has a cracker of a tune a few years ago called Two Hours which started like this

And I knew it when I was older
That I'll feel it when the heart beat comes
And I'll feel it on the night bus
And I'll feel it when the dawn light hurts
Then I'll wait 'till it gets darker
In a couple 'hours we'll be going out
And I'll feel it on the dance floor
And that's the feeling
Can you feel anything
Can you feel anything
'Cause it is bringing me down

Another cracker is The Rat by The Walkmen

You've got a nerve to be asking a favor
You've got a nerve to be calling my number
I know we've been through this before
Can't you hear me, I'm calling out your name?
Can't you see me, I'm pounding on your door?

[Hibby70]

Good taste!

Even more spooky I’m sure it’s the anniversary of the album being released

It was my 5 year old boy that asked Alexa for it.

Don't get too amazed, he followed it up by requesting Starship!!!

[Hibrandenburg]

It was on the good ship Venus........

[Moulin Yarns]

You crawled into my bed
Like some sort of giant insect
And I found myself spellbound
At the sight of you there

[Hiber-nation]

Well I'm a runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me,
One says she's a friend of mine

[JeMeSouviens]

I saw her standin' on her front lawn just twirlin' her baton
Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died

True story - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Starkweather

:eek:

[Dalianwanda]

Good times for a change
See, the luck I've had
Can make a good man
Turn bad

[Hibby70]

It was on the good ship Venus........

One of the first songs I ever learned.

The Sunday School leader was not amused.

[easty]

When you’re starting to choke, take some pills with your coke, it’s inspirational

[MagicSwirlingShip]

People try to put us down
Just because we get around

[Hibrandenburg]

One of the first songs I ever learned.

The Sunday School leader was not amused.

To be fair it is accompanied by a catchy tune :whistle:

[rodhibs55]

There is a bonny football team at Easter Road They Play

[Future17]

In every hick town in Caledonia, across this pseudo nation,
You can see the most ****** up **** that was shat into creation;
Where a blue McEwan's lager top equals no imagination,
You're hunbelievable.

[wpj]

Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.

More than a line but Lou was used to that.

[WeeRussell]

Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.

More than a line but Lou was used to that.

:aok: Been listening to that song a bit of late after hearing it once or twice in the US.

[PeeJay]

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