# What are some of your favorite opening lines of songs? (Please post the first line only) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289 "2013-09-07T22:21:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [September 8, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/41 "2013-09-08T20:43:49Z")
_The concrete broke your fall_ ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/42 "2013-09-08T20:48:04Z")
Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/43 "2013-09-08T21:21:14Z")
“Sweetness, I was only joking when I said/I’d like to smash every tooth in your head” – The Smiths. I’ve always loved the contrast between Marr’s melodies and Morrissey’s lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/44 "2013-09-08T21:35:13Z")
It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurkin’ in the dark **THRILLER!** ---
**Author:** ![mikeargo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mikeargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeargo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/45 "2013-09-08T21:39:28Z")
I hear mariachi static on the radio and the tubes they glow in the dark - Warren Zevon ---
**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:** [September 8, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/46 "2013-09-08T21:46:26Z")
[Emerald haunt in overdrive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6T_BtPSRL0) ---
**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:** [September 8, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/47 "2013-09-08T21:50:06Z")
Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy Ke$ha, “TiK ToK” ---
**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:** [September 8, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/48 "2013-09-08T21:51:19Z")
“Hank was looking out his window, thinking of Bonnie and Clyde, dreaming of all that money, Faye Dunaway as his bride” - Eleventh Dream Day “I am skin and bones, I am pointy nose” - Jane’s Addiction “I had a dream I was a vigilante’s sidekick, my name is Tim, I’m a lesser known character” - Rancid “Got me a movie, I want you to know, slicin up eyeballs, I want you know, God it’s so groovy, I want you to know” - Pixies ---
**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:** [September 8, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/49 "2013-09-08T22:00:28Z")
“The screen door slams, Mary’s dress waves, like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays…” (Springsteen, Thunder Road) “Hello darkness my old friend…” (Paul Simon) “It was Christmas in prison and the food was real good we had turkey and pistols carved out of wood…” (John Prine) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/50 "2013-09-08T22:01:27Z")
“This is a public service announcement. _With guitar!_” “Don’t really mind if you sit this one out.” ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/51 "2013-09-08T22:21:50Z")
Thanks mmm for Thunder Road. That is the line that slammed into my head when I read the OP title. I can add another great Springsteen opener “I got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack I went out for a ride and I never went back” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/52 "2013-09-08T22:26:27Z")
It was long after midnight when we got to unconditional love My favorite relationship song. It continues with: She said, “Sure, my heart is boundless but don’t push my limits too far” I said, “If love is so transcendent I don’t understand these boundaries” She said, “Just don’t disappoint me you know how complex women are” ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/53 "2013-09-08T23:04:30Z")
“Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla” - _Argh Fuck Kill_ by the Dayglo Abortions ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/54 "2013-09-08T23:06:53Z")
“There she stood, in the street, smiling from her head to her feet.” — Free: “All Right Now” “I lay my head on the railroad track, waiting for the Double E” — Warren Zevon: “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/55 "2013-09-08T23:09:44Z")
There are places I remember, all my life though some have changed. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/56 "2013-09-08T23:51:39Z")
And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steels across the meadows of my heart. \*Stardust \* ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/57 "2013-09-09T01:15:02Z")
I spent all of my money in a Mexican whore house, across the street from a Catholic church. Tom Waits - Mr. Seigel ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/58 "2013-09-09T02:52:17Z")
“She turned her nightlight on and blew him a kiss, he stared back with his green Crayola eyes.” -Jellyfish _Joining a Fanclub_ ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/59 "2013-09-09T03:04:38Z")
I used to think if I could realize I’d die then I would be a lot nicer. Rilo Kiley - “Science Vs Romance” ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/60 "2013-09-09T03:24:26Z")
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