# 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:** 7
**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 21, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/121 "2017-10-21T01:40:18Z")
Flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy me to the moon, let me play among the stars… ---
**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 21, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/122 "2017-10-21T01:41:35Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > (BTW, he’s referring to Nazareth Pennsylvania.) Yeah, I had heard that! ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/123 "2017-10-21T13:44:26Z")
“Midnight Sun” by Ella Fitzgerald and many others: Your lips were like a red and ruby chalice warmer than the summer night, The clouds were like an alabaster palace rising to a snowy height, Each star it’s own aurora borealis suddenly you held me tight, I could see the midnight sun. ---
**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 21, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/124 "2017-10-21T15:47:37Z")
^ Damn, that’s hot! ---
**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 21, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/125 "2017-10-21T16:39:09Z")
Seven thirty seven comin’ out of the sky Won’t you take me down to Memphis on a midnight Travelling Band–Creedence Clearwater Revival It’s a lesson too late for the learning Made of sand, made of sand The Last Thing On My Mind–Tom Paxton ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/126 "2017-10-21T17:02:56Z")
“On a morning from a Bogart movie, In a country where they turn back time, You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre Contemplating a crime” ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/127 "2017-10-21T17:33:25Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Yeah, I had heard that! And Nazareth, Pennsylvania is 4 miles north of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania! ---
**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 21, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/128 "2017-10-21T18:30:32Z")
Let’s not forget: _This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend, the end_ We can close the thread now! 🙂 ---
**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 21, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/129 "2017-10-21T18:38:58Z")
And in the end, the love you make is equal to the love you take… (You knew someone was gonna do it, didn’t you?) ---
**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 21, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/130 "2017-10-21T19:25:33Z")
Ok, “Search and Destroy” is probably the right answer, but I can’t stop myself. [I got a letter from the government the other day. I opened it and read it. It said they were suckers.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbX9SYZCkwo) - Public Enemy, “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos” [BABY, BABY, YOU SURE LIKE TO FUCK!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM_DSCHjrf4) - JSBX, “Full Grown” ---
**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 21, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/131 "2017-10-21T19:37:49Z")
She was smoking on a cigerette, talking 'bout the deficit… Hayes Carll ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/132 "2017-10-22T03:04:31Z")
From Dave: _Hello I’ve waited here for you Everlong_ ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/133 "2017-10-22T04:28:13Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Sailing hardships through broken harbors/out on the waves in the night I’ve always heard it as “sailing heart-ships through broken harbors,” which is also how the song lyrics sites have it. I can’t say that one is better than the other as a song lyric. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/134 "2017-10-22T04:42:28Z")
Thanks Stu, liked yours too. Down on Cyprus Avenue With a childlike vision leaping into view Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/135 "2017-10-22T15:27:43Z")
The opening line of the Hives’ “Come On!” is dynamite: _Come on!_ The rest of the lyrics are great too. \*Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! (come on!) Come on! (come on!) Come on! (come on!) Come on! (come on!) Come on! (come on!) Come on! (come on!) Come on! (come on!) Come on! (come on!) Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on… Everybody come on!\* ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/136 "2017-10-23T00:04:16Z")
_“On a morning from a Bogart movie In a country where they turn back time You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre Contemplating a crime”_ _“He stopped loving her today They placed a wreath upon his door And soon they’ll carry him away He stopped loving her today”_ ---
**Author:** ![mikeargo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mikeargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeargo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/137 "2017-10-23T01:48:22Z")
I hear mariachi static on the radio And the tubes, they glow in the dark ---
**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 23, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/138 "2017-10-23T02:12:30Z")
_Seventy-three men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay Rolled off of their ship, and here’s what they had to say_ ---
**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 23, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/139 "2017-10-23T02:41:36Z")
Nobody gonna take my car I’m gonna race it to the ground Nobody gonna beat my car It’s gonna break the speed of sound ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174/140 "2017-10-23T02:55:40Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Sailing hardships through broken harbors/out on the waves in the night > [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > I’ve always heard it as “sailing heart-ships through broken harbors,” which is also how the song lyrics sites have it. I can’t say that one is better than the other as a song lyric. Whichever the hell it is - plus many ones. By miles my favourite Niel opening. Maybe partly because it kicks off such a great album, but it also completely stands on its own merit. OUT HERE IN THE FIELDS, I _FOUGHT_ FOR MY MEALS\* \*Normally not a caps kinda guy, but that felt so…cappy to write. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-opening-line-of-song-lyrics/799174.md?page=8)