Opening line....

[nadroj1985]

What are some of your favorite opening lines in a song? I'll start...

The Sex Pistols- "Anarchy in the U.K." -- "RIGHT....NOW!!!.....I am an antichrist, and I am an anarchist/don't know what I want, but I know how to get it..."

 

[ps139]

My vote goes to one of the new Phish songs, "Access Me." Bassist Mike Gordon (a really, really weird guy) opens with:

First time I came over I was bitten by your dog...

I laughed out loud the first time I heard it, I'm laughing right now...there is something in the way he sings it that unfortunately I can't convey through the written word...

 

[oldrooster]

I am gonna have to go with Squeeze's Last Time Forever - "It all went wrong when I grew jealous....."

 

[Qyöt27]

Too bad most of the really great songs in my collection aren't on my computer right now, but there are a few...

Collective Soul - Generate
"Hey you give me no choice / I entertain by the silence / that you created by noise"

KMFDM - Juke-joint Jezebel
"I can't reject this empty hole / I cannot count the bloody cost / I can't believe this wretched soul / come penetrate all this loss"

Sarah McLachlan - Possession
"Listen as the wind blows from across the great divide / voices trapped in yearning / memories trapped in time"

Fuel - Bittersweet
"Seven sins of wantonness / and everything that's good is gone"

Comsat Angels - Independence Day
"A declaration / of the intention / to stop extension into my airspace"

Gary Puckett and the Union Gap - Young Girl (Do I really need to write out the opening line of this song? lol, j/k)
"Young girl / get out of my mind / my love for you is way out of line"

Pearl Jam - State of Love and Trust
"State of love and trust / as I busted down the pretext"

Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
"The world is a vampire / sent to drain"

Vast - Free
"It's time to laugh / it's time to cry / it's time to be what you need to be"

And of course, the best part of all these songs is, that they get even better (lyrically, vocally, musically, etc.) as the song goes on. I'm more of a music/vocal flow/chorus catchiness person, and these opening lines really stick out.

 

[Sketcher]

Fear Factory - Self Bias Resistor - "Hey you! Wake up! Open your swollen eyes!"

Earth Crisis - Firestorm - "Street by street, block by block, taking it all back! The youth immersed in poison, turn the tide, counterattack!"

 

[freezexbrand]

The Sex Pistols- "Anarchy in the U.K." -- "RIGHT....NOW!!!.....I am an antichrist, and I am an anarchist/don't know what I want, but I know how to get it..."

haha that song always makes me happy

harley poe - transvestites can be canibals too
"dont like the way i look in my own clothes, so i wear my wifes when i go to the town..."

 

[nadroj1985]

Camper van Beethoven- "Take the Skinheads Bowling"

"Every day, I get up and pray to Jah, and he decreases the number of clocks by exactly one."

 

[absolutely_lost_86]

What are some of your favorite opening lines in a song? I'll start...

The Sex Pistols- "Anarchy in the U.K." -- "RIGHT....NOW!!!.....I am an antichrist, and I am an anarchist/don't know what I want, but I know how to get it..."

gotta love the sex pistols

P.O.D. - Youth of the nation - "lasst day of the rest of my life, wish i would of known, woulda kissed my mama goodbye......"

RHCP - Under the bridge - "sometimes i feel like i dont have a partner, sometimes i feel like my only friend is the city i live in..."

 

[cygnusx1]

"A modern-day warrior
Mean mean stride,
Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean mean pride."
​

Tom Sawyer

RUSH

 

[going_crazy_am_i_me2]

Dead Poetic - Take This Breath -"Take this breath for me/becasue i cannot dare to do it alone"

Papa Roach -Last Resort - "Cut my life into peices/this is my last resort"

Linkin Park - Numb - "I’m tired of being what you want me to be"

Evanescence - Tourniquite - "i tried to kill the pain/but only brought more"

 

[freezexbrand]

the exploited - sex and violence
"sex and violence"

the casualties - made in NYC
"the music, if you can call it that physically assualts anyone dumb enough to listen..."

x-ray spex - i am a poser
"i am a poser and i dont care, i like to make people stare..."