# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/41 "2017-10-18T15:11:14Z")
Routine was the theme He’d wake up, wash and pour himself into uniform Something he hadn’t imagined being _Sleight of Hand_ - Pearl Jam ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/42 "2017-10-18T15:22:54Z")
I’ve always enjoyed “What I want, I want now” from Television’s “See No Evil.” ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/43 "2017-10-18T15:29:58Z")
One of Arthur Brown’s other big hits “Nightmare”: \* Dynamic explosions in my brain Shattered me to drops of rain\* ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/44 "2017-10-18T16:16:19Z")
When I was 20 something: “The world is a Vampire…” For pure poetry I will agree with the poster above and say Thunder Road. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/45 "2017-10-18T17:03:24Z")
Gunter glieben glauten globen. ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/46 "2017-10-18T17:22:16Z")
Hello hooray let the show begin, I’ve been ready… ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/47 "2017-10-18T17:23:23Z")
_I woke up alarmed…_ mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/48 "2017-10-18T17:24:41Z")
_Woke up this morning Put on my slippers Walked in the kitchen and died_ mmm ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/49 "2017-10-18T17:30:53Z")
I saw a werewolf with a chinese menu in his hand, walking through the streets of Soho in the rain. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/50 "2017-10-18T17:35:59Z")
Who’s the black private dick That’s a sex machine to all the chicks (serendipity - it came on the radio just as I opened this thread) link lyrics start around 1:00 [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NlMT-oEIQuo/hqdefault.jpg "Theme from 'Shaft' - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlMT-oEIQuo) It was the third of September, That day I’ll always remember Yes I will Cause that was the day that my daddy died. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jzly6jrepRU/hqdefault.jpg "The Temptations - Papa was a rolling stone (high sound quality)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzly6jrepRU) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/51 "2017-10-18T17:37:11Z")
“By the last breath of the four winds that blow / I’ll have revenge upon Fortunato…” - Alan Parsons Project, “The Cask Of Amontillado” “Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train / 'til Stoneman’s cavalry came and tore up the tracks again…” - The Band, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” “I know I can’t take one more step towards you / 'cause all that’s waiting is regret…” - Christina Perri, “Jar of Hearts” “Head under water, and they tell me to breathe easy for a while / the breathing gets harder, even I know that…” - Sara Bareilles, “Love Song” “Nothing to do to save his life, call his wife in / nothing to say but what a day, how’s your boy been…?” - The Beatles, “Good Morning, Good Morning” “Oh, God said to Abraham, ‘Kill me a son’ / Abe says, ‘Man, you must be puttin’ me on’…” - Bob Dylan, “Route 61 Revisited” “Somebody told her that there was a place like heaven / across the water on a 747…” - Electric Light Orchestra, “Calling America” ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/52 "2017-10-18T18:11:37Z")
“Hello there Ladies & Gentlemen! Hello there Ladies & Gents! Are you ready to rock? Are you ready or not?” -Hello There, Cheap Trick ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/53 "2017-10-18T18:24:33Z")
The bed is on fire with passionate love The neighbors complain about the noises above But she only cums when she’s on top - James “Laid” ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/54 "2017-10-18T19:17:33Z")
Bob Dylan, _Like a Rolling Stone_: Once upon a time you dressed so fine You threw the bums a dime in your prime Didn’t you? ELP, _Tarkus/Battlefield_: Clear the battlefield and let me see All the profit from our victory. Bob Dylan, _Tangled up in Blue_: Early one morning the sun was shining, I was laying in bed Wondering if she’d changed at all, if her hair was still red. ---
**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, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/55 "2017-10-18T19:46:34Z")
Johnnie’s in the basement mixin’ up the medicine, I’m on the pavement, thinkin’ 'bout the government. _Subterranean Homesick Blues_, Dylan. Hollis Brown, he lived on the outside of town With his wife and five children in a cabin broken down. _Ballad of Hollis Brown_, Dylan. An’ my belly is craving, I got shakin’ in my head I feel like I’m dyin’ an’ I wish I were dead If I lived till tomorrow it’s gonna be a long time For I’ll reel and I’ll fall and rise on codine… _Cod’ine_ (codeine), Buffy Ste. Marie ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/56 "2017-10-18T19:47:07Z")
_I woke up in a Soho doorway The policeman knew my name He said, “You can go sleep at home tonight If you can get up and walk away”_ The Who-Who are you? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/57 "2017-10-18T19:50:29Z")
“The sirens are screaming, and the fires are howling Way down in the valley tonight” - Bat out of Hell “All I am is a man I want the world in my hands” - Sweater Weather ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/58 "2017-10-18T19:53:53Z")
Hey Charlie I’m pregnant and living on 9th Street Right above a dirty bookstore off Euclid Avenue And I stopped takin dope and I quit drinkin whiskey And my old man plays the trombone and works out at the track Tom Waits, Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis It was Christmas Eve babe In the drunk tank The Pogues, Fairytale of New York ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/59 "2017-10-18T20:05:33Z")
“When I think about all the crap I learned in high school”. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/60 "2017-10-18T20:06:27Z")
Stealing down an alley on a cold dark night I see a halo in the rain around the street light I stop and look, and listen to the sound As the raindrops penetrate the silence all around MC 900 Foot Jesus, “The City Sleeps” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174.md?page=4)