What are some of your favorite opening lines of songs? (Please post the first line only)

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.

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

One more from the Elvis Costello files: “The sky lit up like cheap Korean monster movie scenery” -Tokyo Storm Warning.

“Today my childish laughter falls away” Anchorage, Marian Call

“Nibblin’ on sponge cake,
watchin’ the sun bake;
All of those tourists covered with oil.” Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffett

“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.

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.

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:

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

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”

“Don’t wake me up, let me sleep”

Dream Hangover, The Falling Joys

I don’t care if your world is ending today
Cuz I wasn’t invited to it anyway.
Marylin Manson - Saint

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

Then there’s the opening line to “Tequila”:
“Tequila!”

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

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”

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”

You’ve only got one finger left
And it’s pointing at the door

Beck, Lord Only Knows

“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

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

AH FUCK, FUCK FUCK FUCK

"session’ by the Offspring