# Favorite Song Opening Lines

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 27, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-opening-lines/16509 "2000-04-27T18:44:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-opening-lines/16509/61 "2000-05-04T11:25:43Z")

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I don’t wanna kiss you, I don’t wanna touch  
I don’t wanna see you 'cause I don’t miss you that much  
Elvis costello…‘No Action’

Twenty, twenty, twenty fours hours to go  
I wanna be sedated.  
The Ramones…‘I wanna be sedated’

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**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-opening-lines/16509/62 "2000-05-04T12:29:11Z")

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You want Springsteen?

“One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends  
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in.”  
– “Backstreets”

“Well they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night,  
Well they blew up his house too.  
Down on the boardwalk they’re getting ready for a fight,  
Gonna see what them racket boys can do.  
Now there’s trouble busin’ in from outta state,  
And the DA can’t get no relief.  
Gonna be a rumble out on the Promenade  
And the Gambling Commission’s holding by the skin of its teeth.”  
– “Atlantic City”

“Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack,  
I went out for a ride and I never went back.”  
– “Hungry Heart”

“My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state.  
I’m a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8.  
I always done an honest job as honest as I could.  
I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain’t no good.”  
– “Highway Patrolman”

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