Greatest Opening Lines to a song

[Blue Mist]

For some reason I have never "got" Stevie Wonder but I love this lyric.

@ericpodeofcroydon the whole song is full of great lyrics
To find a job is like the haystack needle
Cause where he lives they don't use coloured people

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Ok, but what did you think of UB40..

That'll give him food for thought

 

[The Colonel]

Son, I'm 30
I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty

 

[City Hobgoblin]

I'm gonna get insane. Blow up my mind. Lightnin' bolt my brain. Turn into Frankenstein. Put on a party dress. Jack off 'til I'm blind. Clean up the mess with Turpentine. Nevermind mankind. Leave it all behind.

 

[Manc baggie]

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real

 

[eric pode of croydon]

Cheers @Manc baggie and @Blue Mist I'll definitely give Stevie Wonder a second chance.

 

[Manc baggie]

Have to say, I am loving this thread.
So many amazing lyrics to remember & so many others being discovered.
Cheers everyone.

 

[doffer]

Sup up your beer and collect your fags
There's a row going on down near Slough
Get out your mat and pray to the West
I'll get out mine and pray for myself

 

[doffer]

And the first commandment reads
That human flesh and blood is sacred
Until there is no more food

Straighten Out - The Stranglers

 

[doffer]

Now that I've met you
Would you object to
Never seeing each other again
Cos I can't afford to
Climb aboard you
No one's got that much ego to spend

Deathly - Aimee Mann

 

[Bri1975]

Slayer - Angel of death

Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
The way that I want you to die
Slow death, immense decay
Showers that cleanse you of your life

 

[Stephen230]

Not really great but I’ve just been listening to a bit of UK Subs and realised that the opening lines to ‘Stranglehold’ are a bit Lostprophety.

Yeah, some little girls got a hold on me

She’s only 13 but oh so sweet

Got me down on my knees

Got a stranglehold on me.

 

[surrounded by idiots]

Bad News Bad News Bad News
For you and you and you and you and you
Bad News Bad News Bad News
For you and you and you and you and you

Can't you see Black Leather?
Can't you hear Devil Woman?
Can't you see Screaming Virgins?
Don't you know bloodlust paranoid metal!

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

We all went down New Delhi
We had too much curry and aching bellies.
Peter got gut rot and puked on the floor,
Stez Styx banging on shithouse door.
I says, come on lads and finish your Bombay duck

 

[Mid Wales blue]

I see a red door and I want it painted blue black

 

[Mid Wales blue]

My Daddy was a bank robber
He never hurt nobody
He just loved to live that way
And he loved to steal your money

The clash.

 

[Blue Mist]

A few years ago on my birthday
I had just turned 21 ( I remember)
I had a lot to live I had a lot to give
Till a man comes to give me a gun

And although that war he sent me to didn't claim me
If I'm bitter don't blame me
It's just my soul responding

Smokey Robinson.
One of the best protest songs covering the issues facing black and native Americans.

(Let me tell you now, I'm on a reservation
Living in a state of degradation
What's a soul supposed to do)

 

[eric pode of croydon]

Not really great but I’ve just been listening to a bit of UK Subs and realised that the opening lines to ‘Stranglehold’ are a bit Lostprophety.

Yeah, some little girls got a hold on me

She’s only 13 but oh so sweet

Got me down on my knees

Got a stranglehold on me.

Just had a look on Spotify and their full catalogue is on it. Unbelievably they have 246.1k monthly listeners.

Strange world.

 

[Grassland Blue]

It started with a greggs
who'd have thought it would come to this......?
L. Shaw.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

I have a mansion
Forget the price
Ain't ever bin there
They tell me it's nice

I love, love, love that song.

And this one:

Spent the last year
Rocky Mountain Way
Couldn't get much higher
Out to pasture
Think it's safe to say
Time to open fire