Best opening lines in any song?

"Don't know what happened, but somebody lost their mind tonight"

Here today, The Chameleons.

Or..

"Too much makes me lazy, not enough and it makes me crazy"

Paper tigers, The Chameleons

I got a letter from the government the other day Opened it and read it It said they were suckers

Tricky - Black Steel

" I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows i'm miserable now"

The Smiths

But then again ... most Smiths lyrics opening or wherever are tremendous!!

Long live The Smiths

oops....wrong website

I've been really trying, baby, Trying to hold back this feeling for so long, But if you feel like I feel, c'mon, Let's get it on....

Oh yeah...you know what song that is :D

Another classic, God Only Knows:

"I may not always love you But long as there are stars above you, You never need to doubt it I'll make you so sure about it"

No Babe, top choice! Tricky - Black Steel . Better than PE's version, and Martinas voice is sublime.

'Inflammable material's planted in my head,it's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead!'

Dermo........SP

I'm partial to You Trip Me Up by the Mary Chain.

"Sometimes, I walk sideways.....to avoid you......when I've annoyed you"

Breakin Rocks in the hot sun/I fought the law but the law won/I fought the law but the law won

and well I always thought the Clash did the song best

riiiiiight, now .

without whom etc ,

OOOOOOOHHHHHHHH MMMMMYYYYYYYYY GAAAAWWWWWDDDDDDD-- Psychedelic by the Butthole Surfers

woman of substance wrote: " I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows i'm miserable now"

The Smiths

But then again ... most Smiths lyrics opening or wherever are tremendous!!

Long live The Smiths

oops....wrong website

Hand in glove The sun shines out of our behinds No, it's not like any other love This one is different - because it's us

And then there's Iggy and the Stooges...

I’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm I’m a runaway son of the nuclear a-bomb I am a world’s forgotten boy The one who searches and destroys

the world's full of danger you do what you can you feel like a stranger like shaft in greenland

shaft in greenland--dead milkmen

Either:

Please, I just got to talk to you Please, well keep your head out of the loo Please, we're a long, long way from home Please, you'd turn a young man's face to stone

Aerosmith

or

Listen to the girl As she takes on half the world Moving up and so alive In her honey dripping beehive

Jesus and Mary Chain

I have two that I can think of at this moment...

Jesus died for someones sins, but not mine. Patti Smith

Get out if this stinking fresh air. - I.O.U. - Replacements

thes best opening line of all time is:

"In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection. Slowly screwing my way across Europe/they had to make a correction."

-"Random Rules" by the Silver Jews

"There is no culture is my brag, Your taste for bullshit reveals a lust for a home of office THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN! THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN! Where are the obligatory niggers?* HEY THERE FUCKFACE!! HEY THERE FUCKFACE!! There are twelve people in the world The rest are paste."

-"The Classical" by the Fall

"Destroy your safe and happy lives/ Before it is too late"

-"Memphis Egypt" by the Mekons

"There is no castration fear" from "We Dance" by Pavement

"I get violent when I'm fucked up, I get silent when I'm drugged up" from "Cheat" by the Clash

"Waking up at 12, in my clothes again Feel my head explode, another night on gin Another night out late"

Too many to choose from!

Just from what I've been listening to:

"Radio, live transmission"

From the very start you know your ears are about to achieve a state of grace

And Morrissey in yet another honourable mention, "Piccadilly Palare":

"Off the rails I was and off the rails I was happy to stay, GET OUT OF MY WAY

On the rack I was, easy meat and a reasonably good buy"

On the surface he seems sensible But underneath the logic is crazy Like a cat that walks with cruelty Or a dog that always bites for no reason I could feel the madness there But I couldn't see the streets for the houses And all the lies and fantasies Were suddenly malicious and dangerous

" How many roads most a man walk down Before you call him a man ? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand ? "

Bob Dylan 'Blowin' In The Wind'

[darkgreen]Green[/darkgreen] wrote: I'm partial to You Trip Me Up by the Mary Chain.

"Sometimes, I walk sideways.....to avoid you......when I've annoyed you"

"Son, I'm thirty. I only went with your Mother 'cause she's dirty..."

Old Blue wrote: "Son, I'm thirty. I only went with your Mother 'cause she's dirty..."

BRILLIANT! How did I not think of that first?

I also vote for 24HPP: "How old are you, are you old enough? Should you be in here, watching that?" Hilarious!

"Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Well I love TV and I love T.Rex I can see through your skirt I've got x-ray specs"

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Section 25 - "Crazy Wisdom"

"The hills look so far away Oils painted recklessly Trees lit, all paisley try We change gears and drive on by By(e) by(e) by(e) by(e) by(e) by(e) by(e) by(e)"

Incredible, when heard with the music. One of my very favorite songs of all-time. Absolutely brilliant.

Half past two and because of you I haven't slept a wink

The Stunning - Half past Two

TWO STATES WE WANT TWO STATES NORTH & SOUTH TWO...TWO STATES

by Pavement

dave soligo wrote: thes best opening line of all time is:

"In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection. Slowly screwing my way across Europe/they had to make a correction."

-"Random Rules" by the Silver Jews

That's cool. But I've never heard of them.

Farewell Tuneless Marshes/Hemmed in like a boar between arches.

Or: Maybe, I Dont Really want to know...