# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/81 "2013-09-09T19:19:43Z")
“Strange to see you, babe; ain’t nothing down here free.” (Lloyd Cole) ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/82 "2013-09-09T19:47:18Z")
Death is a pony that’s waiting for me, his name is Luigi, he’s tied to the black tree. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/83 "2013-09-09T20:06:32Z")
Argh, _two_ of you beat me to _Year of the Cat_, and did it so far in that I had false hope that I’d gotten it in time! Okay…more. 😛 “Sprawling on the fringes of the city, in geometric order…” (Rush) “I read your mind/But it wasn’t a very interesting read…” (Assemblage 23) “Attenuate the light of day/So I can see the lines and details…” (A23) “Even though I know it’s only chemical/These peaks and valleys are beginning to take their toll…” (A23) “The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they call Gitche-Gumee…” (Gordon Lightfoot) “Pariah dogs and wandering madmen/Barking at strangers and speaking in tongues…” (Rush) “Did I have a dream, or did the dream have me?” (Rush) “He’s got a road map of Jupiter/A radar fix on the stars/All along the highway…” (Rush) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/84 "2013-09-09T20:19:59Z")
The morning sun touched lightly on the eyes of Lucy Jordan / In a white suburban bedroom in a white suburban town Just a little atom of chlorine, valance minus one, swimming through the sea, digging the scene, just having fun. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/85 "2013-09-09T20:21:38Z")
Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’ I was layin’ in bed. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/86 "2013-09-09T20:38:23Z")
Oh, forgot one of my favorites: “Wish I was a Kellogg’s Corn Flake, floatin’ in my bowl takin’ movies.” ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/87 "2013-09-09T21:12:50Z")
> [@](#): > > In the chilly hours and minutes > Of uncertainty > I want to be > In the warm hold of your loving mind. > [@](#): > > When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all Both of these shuffled up in iTunes just a little while ago. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/88 "2013-09-09T22:04:45Z")
Another Paul Simon one: “Fat Charlie the Archangel sloped into the room…” Just an incredibly evocative visual for me. 😃 (Crazy Love, Vol. II, from _Graceland_) ---
**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, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/89 "2013-09-09T22:23:46Z")
This thread made me put in my Graceland CD (probably followed up by more Paul Simon) . . . he is one of the kings of songwriting, and _Graceland_ is perhaps one of the greatest albums by anyone ever. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/90 "2013-09-09T22:40:19Z")
Hey. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/91 "2013-09-09T22:42:33Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > The Empty Bottle was half empty > The tide was low and I was thirsty > > Old 97s “Barrier Reef” Fuckin’ right on. Nice choice…I love that band. Here are a couple I like, both by Jeff Tweedy/Wilco: “I dreamed about killing you again last night, and it felt alright to me.” - _Via Chicago_ “Like a cloud, his fingers explode. On the typewriter ribbon, a shadow grows.” - _Summerteeth_ ---
**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 9, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/92 "2013-09-09T23:33:55Z")
I hate to… Break it to you… But this convenience ain’t convenient anymore “All Wrong” God Lives Underwater Breathe with me “Breathe” Prodigy (esp as you see it in the video) ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/93 "2013-09-09T23:52:42Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > This thread made me put in my Graceland CD (probably followed up by more Paul Simon) . . . he is one of the kings of songwriting, and _Graceland_ is perhaps one of the greatest albums by anyone ever. Damn straight. So many memorable lines… “the Mississippi delta was shining like a national guitar” ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/94 "2013-09-10T00:01:03Z")
Please don’t dominate the rap, Jack, if you’ve got nothing new to say. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/95 "2013-09-10T01:29:34Z")
Another Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody I’ve got some money 'cause I just got paid Now, how I wish I had someone to talk to I’m in an awful way ~ Sam Cooke ---
**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 10, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/96 "2013-09-10T01:37:02Z")
The roses in the window box are tilted to one side. Elton John (Bernie Taupin) Love Lies Bleeding. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/97 "2013-09-10T01:37:24Z")
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again … from one of my favorite Elvis Costello songs: “He thought he was the King of America, Where they pour Coke-a-Cola just like vintage wine …” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/98 "2013-09-10T01:41:53Z")
“You will not be able to stay home, brother.” -Gil Scott-Heron, _The Revolution Will Not Be Televised_ ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/99 "2013-09-10T01:45:21Z")
“There’s too much blood in my alcohol.” **Coil** _Heartworms_ ---
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