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Best Opening Line in A Song

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Best Opening Line in A Song
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An the nominees are:

Thunder shook loose hail on the outhouse again - Permafrost/Magazine
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Mama I just killed a man - Bohemian Rhapsody/Queen
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"Her love is like dragging your balls across barbed wire" - 'That's What Dreams Are Made Of' by Tank

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand walking through the streets of Soho in the rain" Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
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"Twenty five whores in the room next door,
25 floors and I need more"
 
Sisters Of Mercy - Vision Thing.
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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I met her outside the IGA, true love works in funny ways.

The Scavengers - True Love

How's my driving? - Whine here

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"son I'm thirty, I only went with yer mother 'cause she's dirty" Kinky Afro - The Happy Mondays
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Not exactly what the thread is about, but fun anyway:
 
She's my fave
Undressing in the sun
Return to sea - bye
Forgetting everyone
Eleven high
Ride a wave
 
See the pattern?
 
Pixies - "Ana"
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I like your pants around your feet
Nickleback - Figured You Out
 
Awful band, awful song.  Great first line.

I let my guitar speak for me

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'to the left, to the left'
Beyonce-Irreplaceable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  joking!
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Ummmmmmmm
 
Ummmmmmmm - Hooverman
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Agadoo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree
 
Agadoo - Black Lace

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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1, 2, 3, 4
 
The Ramones - just about every song they ever did.
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UberGunner wrote:
Mama I just killed a man - Bohemian Rhapsody/Queen

Actually, it starts " Is this the real life, is this just fantasy..."
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Malky... I'd be prouder of you if you'd just left that.  Not knowing that should be a badge of honor.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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kiwi pie wrote:
"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand walking through the streets of Soho in the rain" Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
 
Gotta admit that one is class - the lyric and the song
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Johnny is a chemist's son
But Johnny is no more
What Johnny thought was H20
Was H2SO4
 
Acidhead by Tourniquet (Album - Vanishing Lessons)
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"You don't seem to understand the deal; I don't give two sh*ts on how you feel" Thumb by Kyuss.
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"Yeah but I sing like an amputee though"

"Why?"

"Cos - cant hold a note, cant carry a tune"

Bloodhound Gang - All Your Friends Are Make Believe

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Baby, when I met you there was peace unknown
I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb
 
Islands in the stream - Kenny and Dolly

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds, I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down - Cocaine Blues by Johnny Cash
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Not an opening line, but cool lyrics fron Neil Youngs The Needle and the damge done.
 
"I seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie's like a setting sun"
 
Good to see someone mention Kyuss, Josh Homme's peak was Kyuss's last record and the first Queens record, without all the "Colaborators" I hate that sh*t. After having Dave Grohl drum on an album where else could they go, maybe dig up Bonzo???
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Junkies look NOTHING like sunsets. When was the last time a sunset shuffled up to your car and offered to wipe a dirty rag across your windscreen for a dollar?
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Not an opening line more like an entire song - brilliant - gotta love Zevon.
 
I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel
I was staring in my empty coffee cup
I was thinking that the gypsy wasn't lyin'
All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles
I'm gonna drink 'em up

And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill

Don't the sun look angry through the trees
Don't the trees look like crucified thieves
Don't you feel like Desperados under the eaves
Heaven help the one who leaves

Still waking up in the mornings with shaking hands
And I'm trying to find a girl who understands me
But except in dreams you're never really free
Don't the sun look angry at me

I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel
I was listening to the air conditioner hum
It went mmmmmm..


Peoples Republik of Aucklandia

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I chose an eternity of this - Siamese Twins/The Cure
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"i'm on the drug that killed river phoenix "    tism

 
giddyup2007-07-11 15:58:10
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they're trying to build a prison!!!!!!!!!! - prison song system of a down
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"I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies
and hypotheses can't define how I be droppin these
mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery;
flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me."
 
Triumph by Wu Tang Clan.
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kiwi pie wrote:
"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand walking through the streets of Soho in the rain" Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
I was totally gonna say that. Good call.
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I have always enjoyed the opening few lines of "Bob" by NoFX:
 
He spent fifteen years getting loaded,
Fifteen years until his liver exploded,
What's Bob gonna do now that he can't drink?
 
The doctor said "what were you thinking 'bout?",
Bob said "that's the point, I wasn't thinking 'bout nothing"
 
 
terminator_x2007-07-23 15:01:04

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Just a perfect day,
Drink Sangria in the park

Three for me, and two for them.

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Sit on my face and tell me that you love me! - Monty Python

"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009

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"A bunch of lonesome and very Quarrelsome heroes ,were smoking out along the open road"
Leonard Cohen

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour but heaven knows im miserable now 
The Smiths

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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"i'm on the drug that killed river phoenix "    tism

 
 
Jesus wept, someone else who knows of TISM!!!
 
Hmm I know I already put one down, but TISM reminded me:
"Everyone ELse Has HAd More Sex Than Me"
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"get back in your hole, get dead, son
get back in your hole, get bent
crawl under a rock and get lost, boy
crawl under a rock, get f**ked"
 
McLusky - "Icarus Smicarus"
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The opening line to Ian Durys  Plaistow Patricia  ,don't think i could get away with putting them on here though!
Kiwi Jambo2007-07-28 17:50:49

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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Buffon II wrote:

How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man

 
Changed

Three for me, and two for them.

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I never thought about this universe, made me feel small, Never thought about problmes at all all,  
 
 
Nofx - Franco unamerican

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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