Best opening lyrics

[shwantzme]

Some good ones here

http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-25/

[cormaxtacy]

Some good ones here

http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-25/


There's a lot they left off on that list...


How about:
"I can't believe the news today, I can't close my eyes and make it go away."
Sunday Bloody Sunday, U2.

[chapulincolorado]

They got some good ones, but to me this is a classic from hip-hop lyric

Public Enemy

"Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos"


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

[shwantzme]

I like

"The bed's too big without you
A cold wind blows my open door"

[Cascarino's Pizzeria]

Slide by Luna:

You can never give
The finger to the blind
Sometimes I act so stupid
But you never seem to mind
That's no way to be
Laughing at the deaf
I know that I repeat myself
When I got nothing left

[Unorthodox Yank]

Personally I've always liked another Beck one:

"Cold Brains
Unused
Untouched
Unglued
Alone at last"

Even though I haven't the faintest idea what it's supposed to mean.

[frasermc]

R.E.M. for me...

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane,
Lenny Bruce is not afraid....

[servotron]

The Pharcyde: Ya Momma

Ya Momma so fat
(how fat is she?)
ya momma is so big and fat that she can get bu-sy
(with) 22 burritos when times are rough
I seen her in the back of taco bell with handcuffs

[Crimen y Castigo]

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

Winner.

[argentine soccer fan]

"There is no political solution"
(Spirits in the Material World: The Police)


"I walked forty seven miles of barbed wire,
I got a cobra snake for a necktie"
(Who do you Love: The version I remember is from George Thorogood, but I don't think he wrote it)


"Honey came in and she caught me red-handed creeping with the girl next door
Picture this we were both butt naked banging on the bathroom floor"
(It wasn't me: Shaggy)

[Dyvel]

PATTI SMITH
"Gloria"

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine
meltin' in a pot of thieves
wild card up my sleeve
thick heart of stone
my sins my own
they belong to me, me

[Liv'poolFaninAZ]

best opening lyrics ever bar none:


i said a hip hop the hippie the hippie
to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop
the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie
to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat



'nuff said!

[Frieslander]

"Hips like Cinderella"

[spejic]

My punctuality is well known
When the revolution takes place
I'll be late
And I'll be shot as a traitor


Traitor, The Sugarcubes

[MLSNHTOWN]

"Don't call it a comeback...I've been here for years"

[taosjohn]

"I walked forty seven miles of barbed wire,
I got a cobra snake for a necktie"
(Who do you Love: The version I remember is from George Thorogood, but I don't think he wrote it)

Bo Diddley.

[Iceblink]

I always thought that this was a great line. Well, not always... just since the first time I heard the song.


I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles
In our eyes are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned

"Such Great Heights" - The Postal Service

[tommuster]

i ********ed up again it is all my fault.
So turn me around and face the wall.
Read me my rights and tell me I'm wrong.
Until it gets into my thick skull.

[NORML]

"I'm not a player I throw up a lot"
The Two, Felt

[Matrim55]

Hey yo Bo knows this
And Bo knows that
But Bo don't know jack
'Cause Bo can't rap!

and...

People are strange, when you're a stranger
People look ugly, when you're alone.