# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/121 "2013-09-13T19:24:50Z")
It was late in December, the sky turned to snow… ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/122 "2013-09-13T19:30:00Z")
“They’re selling postcards of the hanging They’re painting the passports brown …” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 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/668289/123 "2013-09-13T23:33:14Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Has anyone mentioned Thunder Road yet? How does that start again? ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/124 "2013-09-14T01:06:09Z")
'New York I love you, but you’re bringing me down." - \*\*LCD Soundsystem \*\* “Lord, please don’t forsake me in my Mercedes Benz” - \*Strange Apparition, \ ***Beck** “Got a blank space where my mind should be” - \*Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan, \ ***Phish** ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/125 "2013-09-14T03:29:03Z")
My favorite opening line… “This week dragged past me so slowly, the days fell on their knees.” Stay by David Bowie ---
**Author:** ![Implicit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/126 "2013-09-14T03:53:35Z")
“This is the story of a girl Who cried a river and drowned the whole world” _Absolutely_ by Nine Days. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/127 "2013-09-14T04:40:53Z")
“Look out, mama, there’s a white boat comin’ up the river” Neil Young, _Powderfinger_ “I read the news today, oh boy” Beatles, _A Day in the Life_ ---
**Author:** ![Phil\_CostaMesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Phil\_CostaMesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phil_CostaMesa)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/128 "2013-09-14T04:55:55Z")
The Long And Winding Road ---
**Author:** ![Phil\_CostaMesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Phil\_CostaMesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phil_CostaMesa)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/129 "2013-09-14T04:58:46Z")
Allow me to introduce you to yourself, I believe you two have never met. Edgar Winters White Trash ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/130 "2013-09-14T08:55:16Z")
Hello darkness my old friend… ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/131 "2013-09-14T14:26:28Z")
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain-Warren Zevon Virgil Kane is the name And I served on the Danville train-The Band Lookin’ out at the road rushin’ under my wheels-Jackson Browne He came dancin’ across the water With his galleons and guns-Neil Young Pickin’ up the pieces of my sweet, shattered dream I wonder how the old folks are tonight-Gordon Lightfoot ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/132 "2013-09-14T15:43:21Z")
I look at you all See the love there that’s sleeping While my guitar gently weeps . . . ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/133 "2013-09-14T18:33:09Z")
She wears a wedding ring her sister lent To throw them off the scent - _Sulky Girl_, Elvis Costello What does it for me is not just his wordsmithing, but his phrasing married to the tune. Ol’ Declan has _somethin’_ goin’ for him, alright. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/134 "2013-09-14T18:44:40Z")
I can’t believe I forgot my favorite from Bruce: Bobby said he’d pull out/Bobby stayed in ---
**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 14, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/135 "2013-09-14T23:39:47Z")
Teddy sniffin’ glue he was 12 years old, fell from a roof on East Two Nine. - JIm Carroll -People Who Died ---
**Author:** ![Kuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Kuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuru)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/136 "2013-09-15T01:46:56Z")
Dylan has so much gold. Two of my favourites: Johny’s in the basement / Mixing up the medicine I married Isis on the fifth day of May / But I could not hold on to her very long ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/137 "2013-09-15T01:58:01Z")
Raven hair, ruby lips, sparks fly from her fingertips… ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/138 "2013-09-15T12:55:47Z")
Leonard Cohen has a lot of good ones. For example: “We’re drinking and we’re dancing and the band is really happening and the Johnny Walker wisdom’s running high.” “Everybody knows the dice are loaded; everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.” ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/139 "2013-09-15T14:53:44Z")
I came upon a child of God, he was walking along the road There’s a lady who’s sure, all that glitters is gold, and she’s buying the stairway to heaven Holly came from Miami, F.L.A., hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A. Wanna tell you a story, bout the house-man blues. I come home one Friday, had to tell the landlady I done lost my job. She said that don’t confront me, long as I get my money next Friday. Now next Friday come I didn’t get the rent, and out the door I went. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/140 "2013-09-15T15:59:23Z")
One more: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide. No escape from reality. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289.md?page=8)