# BEST opening line of song lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174 "2017-10-18T00:49:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/1 "2017-10-18T00:49:38Z")
[Just have a continuing moral obligation here to [maintain the Balance of the Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=839005), ya understand] 1st nomination, opening lines of The Church’s Myrrh: _Emerald haunt in overdrive_ Heard it hundreds of times by now, still not sure what it means, but remains evocative and powerful, somehow… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/2 "2017-10-18T00:54:19Z")
[I am the God of Hellfire, and I bring you…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaHEusBG20c) Arthur Brown “Fire” ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/3 "2017-10-18T00:54:25Z")
Your socks they smell, your feet they stink, You never take a bath. Your nose it runs, you bust your buns, You always finish last. Sick! (Sick) Of! (Of) You. I’m so sick, so sick of you. …aaaand so forth. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/4 "2017-10-18T00:56:50Z")
2nd Place: [My head hurts, my feet stink and I don’t love Jesus.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKX3nx-zKew) ---
**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/5 "2017-10-18T02:00:14Z")
“Well, my friends are gone and my hair is grey; I ache in the places where I used to play” _Tower of Song_, Leonard Cohen ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/6 "2017-10-18T02:08:29Z")
“On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/7 "2017-10-18T02:19:33Z")
Just pulled into Nazereth… ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/8 "2017-10-18T02:20:28Z")
“You need cooling, baby I’m not fooling I’m gonna send ya back to schooling” “The roses in the window box have tilted to one side Everything about this house was born to grow and die” “Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn’t help me with my mind People think I’m insane because I am frowning all the time” “Carry on my wayward son / There’ll be peace when you are done” “A modern day warrior, mean mean stride Today’s Tom Sawyer, mean mean pride” “All is quiet on New Year’s Day / A world in white gets underway” ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/9 "2017-10-18T02:21:00Z")
Oh, good one **Beckdawrek**! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/10 "2017-10-18T02:26:17Z")
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/11 "2017-10-18T02:35:17Z")
Oh a storm is threat’ning My very life today There must be some way out of here Said the joker to the thief ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/12 "2017-10-18T02:38:04Z")
_Honey don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow_ ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/13 "2017-10-18T02:53:24Z")
_They’re selling postcards of the hanging…_ ---
**Author:** ![montag01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@montag01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/montag01)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/14 "2017-10-18T03:02:16Z")
Please allow me to introduce myself . . . Well I heard there was a secret chord . . . Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’, I was layin in bed . . There must be someway out of here, said the joker to the thief ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/15 "2017-10-18T03:24:16Z")
Wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/16 "2017-10-18T03:31:24Z")
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/17 "2017-10-18T05:24:05Z")
[And so they covered me in blood and threw me into shark infested waters.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WM_s9Yn1H0) - Lubricated Goat, “Bad Times” [Imagine: Your father was naked, and you had just fallen through the ceiling into a a room into a room full of soft, moist eyeballs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjOomC5_08M) Butthole Surfers - “Boiled Dove” [THERE’S A TIME TO FUCK, AND A TIME TO CRAVE; BUT THE SHAH SLEEPS IN LEE HARVEY’S GRAVE!!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq5CbOuSSLI) Butthole Surfers - “The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s Grave” [A long time ago, I turned to myself, and said “You are my daughter”.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pNAJFNd8Lk) The Meat Puppets -“Up on the Sun” [When I was done dying my conscious regained](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuJqUvBj4rE) Dan Deacon - “When I Was Done Dying” ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/18 "2017-10-18T05:41:32Z")
Awww, missed the edit window, but also: [How do you keep a moron held in rapt suspense?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGQzWxLEc48) - The Cramps, “The Call of the Wighat” (and the subject of the first thread I started here, I think) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/19 "2017-10-18T06:19:44Z")
It was 20 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play… ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/20 "2017-10-18T06:37:51Z")
[Dan Fogelberg’s _Same Old Lang Syne_:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmVXYOJzAJM) “Met my old lover in the grocery store, the snow was falling Christmas Eve…” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174.md?page=2)