# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/141 "2013-09-16T03:20:37Z")
**I like big butts and I can not lie!** -Sir Mix-a-lot Not really the first line, but His Lorship’s first spoken part. **I have climbed highest mountain, I have run through the fields, Only to be with you** … -U2 My #1 favorite song from my favorite rock-n-roll band. I always want to stop whatever I’m doing and stop feeling whatever I’m feeling and just be thankful whenever I hear it. I could probably say the same for **Baby Got Back** , come to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/142 "2013-09-16T04:03:20Z")
I knew a girl named Nikki I guess u could say she was a sex fiend - Prince I can’t believe the news today. U2 My uncle has a country place that no one knows about Rush Begin the day with a friendly voice, a companion unobtrusive Rush On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair. (the fucking) Eagles ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/143 "2013-09-16T04:08:36Z")
One more from the Elvis Costello files: “The sky lit up like cheap Korean monster movie scenery” -Tokyo Storm Warning. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/144 "2013-09-16T06:06:54Z")
“Today my childish laughter falls away” [Anchorage](http://mariancall.bandcamp.com/track/anchorage), Marian Call “Nibblin’ on sponge cake, watchin’ the sun bake; All of those tourists covered with oil.” Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffett ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/145 "2013-09-16T06:58:56Z")
“Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train, Feelin’ nearly as faded as my jeans” (Kris Kristofferson - _Me & Bobby McGee_) Always liked that one. Paints such a vivid picture in so few words. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/146 "2013-09-16T07:55:34Z")
One of my favorite opening lines to any song has got to be: “And I’d give up forever to touch you” from Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls. ---
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/147 "2013-09-16T11:29:29Z")
It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day (Bobby Gentry) Now look at them yo-yo’s that’s the way you do it (Dire Straights) Loving you Isn’t the right thing to do (Fleetwood Mac) ETA - Am I showing my age? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/149 "2013-09-18T00:46:28Z")
I am the world that hides the universal secret of all time - “A National Acrobat” by Black Sabbath So young, so brazen, so unholy - “Last of my kind” by Alice in Chains One fine day in hell - “The Devil Cried” by Heaven and Hell ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/150 "2013-09-18T01:22:57Z")
Hard to beat the great Kristofferson: _Casey joins the hollow sound of silent people walking down the stairway to the subway in the shadows down below._ - “Casey’s Last Ride” _I was runnin’ through the summer rain, tryin’ to catch the evening train, and kill that old familiar pain weavin’ through my tangled brain, when I tipped my bottle back and smacked into a cop I didn’t see._ - “Best Of All Possible Worlds” and _See the ruins on the hill, where the smoke is hanging still, like the echo of an age long-forgotten_. - “Darby’s Castle” ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/151 "2013-09-18T07:56:43Z")
“Don’t wake me up, let me sleep” Dream Hangover, The Falling Joys ---
**Author:** ![BettieR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/53a042/32.png) [@BettieR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BettieR)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/152 "2013-09-18T12:12:34Z")
I don’t care if your world is ending today Cuz I wasn’t invited to it anyway. Marylin Manson - Saint ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/153 "2013-09-19T02:01:25Z")
> [@velomont](#): > > One fine day in hell - “The Devil Cried” by Heaven and Hell One of Dio’s best, I don’t know how I forgot it. I’ve got another one. It’s simple and it perfectly expresses the tone of the song that follows: “VODKA!” -korpiklaani’s _Vodka_ ---
**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 19, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/154 "2013-09-19T13:25:32Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > I’ve got another one. It’s simple and it perfectly expresses the tone of the song that follows: > “VODKA!” -korpiklaani’s _Vodka_ Then there’s the opening line to “Tequila”: “Tequila!” ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/155 "2013-09-20T16:58:07Z")
Well the night that I got into town was the that the rain froze on the ground. Spanish Moon by Little Feat And, of course, - Roooooooll another one. Just like the other one. Feat, too. With your photographs of Kitty Hawk And the biplanes on your wall You were always Amy Johnson From the time that you were small. Al Stewart Flying Sorcery ---
**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 20, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/156 "2013-09-20T17:01:31Z")
I woke up this morning with a bad hangover, and my penis was missing again. King Missile, “Detachable Penis” Collecting pieces of my family in an old pillowcase. This one has a skull, but it don’t have a face. Alice Cooper, “Pick Up the Bones” ---
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Reluctantly crouched at the starting line, Engines pumping and thumping in time. - Cake, “The Distance” Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh, Here I am at Camp Grenada - Allan Sherman, “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah” There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium - Tom Lehrer, “The Elements” ---
**Author:** ![Tara57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Tara57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tara57)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/158 "2013-09-20T21:33:23Z")
You’ve only got one finger left And it’s pointing at the door Beck, Lord Only Knows ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/159 "2013-09-20T22:28:28Z")
“There’s a spanish train that runs between, Guadalquivir and Old Seville…” -Spanish Train, Chris De Burgh " Stood still in the twilight, I saw a woman by the side of the road, with a face I knew like my own, in the shadows…" -Road to Hell, Chris Rea “There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run…” -Cdn Railroad Trilogy, Gordon Lightfoot “The girl works at the store, sweet Jane St.Clair…” -Jane, BareNakedLadies ---
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday The regular crowd shuffles in There’s an old man sitting next to me Making love to his tonic and gin ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-opening-lines-of-songs-please-post-the-first-line-only/668289/161 "2013-09-20T22:48:47Z")
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