# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/21 "2017-10-18T06:59:34Z")
“I guess I should’ve known by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn’t last.” Prince, Little Red Corvette ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/22 "2017-10-18T07:08:43Z")
I am a member of the council of of the Naval Mutiny…_[Colours](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNKLBwAcP04)_, The Men They Couldn’t Hang It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline - [_Waiting For The Great Leap Forward_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjLXyqD3lvI) Billy Bragg Following the silent hedges, needing some other kind of madness - _[Silent Hedges](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXcJ80wf9Q)_ Bauhaus Suddenly shattered, ear to ear, cut to the gut and I’m screaming to be! _[Shatter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Zz7BX3tsQ)_ Shelleyan Orphan ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/23 "2017-10-18T08:45:12Z")
History is written by the winners This is a loser’s song-- “Walking On Hell’s Roof Looking At the Flowers” Waco Brothers ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/24 "2017-10-18T09:12:36Z")
I want it all. I want it all. I want it all, and I want it _now_. [guitar solo!] - Queen ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/25 "2017-10-18T09:59:00Z")
Welcome to the real world she said to me, condescendingly - John Mayer “No Such Thing” I try not to stand too close to myself. I try not to listen to the things I say -Deborah Conway “Man Overboard” This aint no disco. And it ain’t no country club either. This is LA. - Sheryl Crow “All I wanna do” Under the ruins of a walled city. Tumbling towers and beams of yellow light - Sting “If I Built this Fortress” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/26 "2017-10-18T10:41:08Z")
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day It’s getting to the point where I’m no fun anymore. Sittin’ stoned alone in my backyard, askin’ myself “Why should I work so hard?” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/27 "2017-10-18T11:05:49Z")
The screen door slams, Mary’s dress waves Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays Bruce Springsteen, _Thunder road_ Wasted and wounded, it ain’t what the moon did Got what I paid for now See ya tomorrow, hey Frank can I borrow A couple of bucks from you? Tom Waits, _Tom Traubert’s Blues_ Your everlasting summer You can see it fading fast So you grab a piece of something That you think is gonna last Steely Dan, _Reeling in the Years_ ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/28 "2017-10-18T11:46:01Z")
“The Empty Bottle was half empty” Old 97s, Barrier Reef “I am an American aquarium drinker I assassin down the avenue” Wilco, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/29 "2017-10-18T11:48:23Z")
Pistol shots ring out in the bar room night Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall She sees the bartender in a pool of blood Cries out, “My God, they killed them all!” ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/30 "2017-10-18T12:34:31Z")
“I’m a member of an ape-like race At the asshole end of the twentieth century”, Low, Low, Low by James “In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey”, Loser by Beck Kind of a monkey theme. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/31 "2017-10-18T13:08:08Z")
_You can’t run away forever, But there’s nothing wrong with getting a good head start_ “Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through” by Jim Steinman/Rory Dodd ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/32 "2017-10-18T13:14:35Z")
May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true. May you always do for others And let others do for you. That is the reason Dylan got the Nobel Prize. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/33 "2017-10-18T13:32:32Z")
_The concrete broke your fall_ ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/34 "2017-10-18T14:10:54Z")
My name is Juan Hano de Castro, my father was a Spanish grandee But I won my wife in a card game, to hell with the lords o’er the sea ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/35 "2017-10-18T14:13:08Z")
Oh, she was an American girl, raised on promises. She couldn’t help thinkin’ that there was a little more to life somewhere else. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - “American Girl” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/36 "2017-10-18T14:41:44Z")
Wednesday morning at five o’clock, as the day begins. _She’s Leaving Home_, The Beatles There’s a little black spot on the sun today. _King of Pain_, The Police My father sits alone with no lights on; my mother reads her magazine. _That’s The Way I Always Heard It Should Be_, Carly Simon Everybody’s gone away, said they’re moving to L.A. _Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues_, Danny O’Keefe Rain drippin’ off the brim of my hat, it sure looks cold today. _Is Anybody Goin’ To San Antone?_, Charlie Pride Got out of town on a boat goin’ to Southern Islands, sailing a reach before a followin’ sea. _Southern Cross_, Crosby, Stills & Nash ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/37 "2017-10-18T14:48:19Z")
“Look out mama, there’s a white boat comin’ up the river.” Neil Young, _Powderfinger_. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/38 "2017-10-18T14:56:32Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Oh a storm is threat’ning > My very life today Since you beat me to that one, let me offer: _The festival was over, the boys were all plannin’ for a fall, The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin’ in the wall._ ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/39 "2017-10-18T15:02:06Z")
Your construction Smells of corruption I manipulate to recreate This air to ground saga Gotta launder my karma ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/40 "2017-10-18T15:08:47Z")
No one knows what it’s like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, behind blue eyes. The Who, “Behind Blue Eyes” We’re big rock singers, we’ve got golden fingers, and we’re loved everywhere we go. We sing about Beauty, and we sing about Truth, for ten thousand dollars a show. Dr. Hook, “The Cover of _Rolling Stone_” So you think I’ve got an evil mind I tell you, honey I don’t know why “Come On, Feel the Noise” originally by Slade, covered by Quiet Riot [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174.md?page=3)