# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/61 "2013-09-09T03:25:17Z")
“Like anyone, I knew a Dave.” - The Tragically Hip, “Everytime You Go.” ---
**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:** [September 9, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/62 "2013-09-09T03:49:54Z")
“Routine was the theme, he’d wake up and wash and pour himself into uniform…something he hadn’t imagined being.” _Sleight of Hand_ - Pearl Jam ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/63 "2013-09-09T04:04:13Z")
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 Wow! I love it. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/64 "2013-09-09T06:37:25Z")
AArrrgghh! Leaffan beat me to it! That was from _Year of the Cat_, by Al Stewart ---
**Author:** ![snowmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@snowmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowmaster)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/65 "2013-09-09T07:06:34Z")
They say that these are not the best of times, But they’re the only times I’ve ever known, And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Summer, Highland Falls Billy Joel ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/66 "2013-09-09T07:10:13Z")
Would you be upset if I told you we were dying, and every cure they gave us was a lie? [Streetlight Manifesto – Would You Be Impressed?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UTPKL-UGY) ---
**Author:** ![Sarah87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Sarah87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah87)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/67 "2013-09-09T09:19:49Z")
“I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known.” I guess you know it, Green Day’s Boulevard Of Broken Dreams. ---
**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 9, 2013, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/68 "2013-09-09T10:46:31Z")
Warren Zevon rightfully keeps popping up. Here are a few more of his: Big gorilla at the L.A. Zoo, snatched the glasses right off my face Took the keys to my BMW, left me here to take his place — **Gorilla You’re a Desperado** Grandpa pissed his pants again, he don’t give a damn — **Play It All Night Long** Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best, excitable boy, they all said And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest, excitable boy, they all said — **Excitable Boy** mmm ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/69 "2013-09-09T10:58:57Z")
Pretty women go walking with gorillas down my street. - **Joe Jackson** , _Is She Really Going Out With Him?_ ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/70 "2013-09-09T11:19:53Z")
“ “ _Popcorn_ Hot Butter. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK5q1bU59Ic) “Lovin’ you…isn’t the right thing to do” _Go Your Own Way_ Fleetwood Mac [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfnde3QXmSI) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/71 "2013-09-09T11:57:58Z")
_Oh, the night came undone like a party dress And fell at her feet in a beautiful mess._ - Gillian Welch, “Barroom Girls” That’s a wonderful image right there. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/72 "2013-09-09T13:28:10Z")
O, lay me down in Forest Lawn in a silver casket–Tom Paxton (NOT John Denver) A redneck nerd in a bowling shirt was a-guzzling Lonestone beer. Talking religion and politics for all the world to hear–Kinky Friedman ---
**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:** [September 9, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/73 "2013-09-09T13:33:57Z")
It was Christmas Eve in the drunk tank. - the Pogues, _Fairytale of New York_ ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/74 "2013-09-09T14:01:58Z")
So many good ones! Mine’s some more Paul Simon: When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all – _Kodachrome_The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar-- _Graceland_ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/75 "2013-09-09T17:13:22Z")
I love you Dewey Dumpsters full. (a love song I wrote for my wife in 1982. Still sing it to her now and then) ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/76 "2013-09-09T17:16:10Z")
" I was born in a crossfire hurricane…" ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/77 "2013-09-09T17:29:48Z")
“I cut my bangs with some rusty kitchen scissors.” Miranda Lambert, _This Ain’t My Mama’s Broken Heart._ ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/78 "2013-09-09T17:33:58Z")
“In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.”~ The Silver Jews, _Random Rules_ “Suckin’ on my titties like you wantin’ me, calling me all the time like Blondie check out my Chrissy Be-Hynde it’s fine all of the time.” ~ Peaches, _Fuck the Pain Away_ ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/79 "2013-09-09T18:02:06Z")
One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces One of These Days - Pink Floyd Actually that’s all the lyrics to it. ---
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/80 "2013-09-09T18:13:24Z")
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