Greatest Opening Lyric Of Any Song

[Saddleworth2]

Lions in the street and roaming
Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming
A beast caged in the heart of a city

 

[jimmy blue shoes]

On the day I was born
The nurses all gathered 'round
And they gazed in wide wonder
At the joy they had found
The head nurse spoke up
And she said leave this one alone
She could tell right away
That I was bad to the bone

 

[Saddleworth2]

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Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste

 

[Resurrection Joe...]

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance

 

[Out on blue 6]

In your white lace and your wedding bells
You look the picture of contented new wealth
But from the on-looking fool who believed your lies
I wish this grave would open up and swallow me alive…

 

[The perfect fumble]

I hear the train a comin'
It's rolling round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when
I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on
But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone

When I was just a baby, my mama told me
"Son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns"
But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry

 

[City Hobgoblin]

I walk 47 miles of barbed wire,
I use a cobra-snake for a necktie,
I got a brand new house on the roadside,
Made from rattlesnake hide,
I got a brand new chimney made on top,
Made out of a human skull,
Now come on take a walk with me, arlene,
And tell me, who do you love?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

You could hear the hoof beats pound,
As they raced across the ground


if your standing on a corner with a red scarf round your neck


What's he like
Mavis?
He's a real
Tasty geezer.

Bloody hell Johnny Reggae!
That takes me back.

 

[roman totale]

The Leicester YOP, TEP, instructor
Emerged from corridor
His state-subsidized cannabis haze
Moved reptilian in its all-levelling routine

 

[dobingsdobber]

Was a hot afternoon
The last day of June
And the sun was a demon