Greatest Opening Lyric Of Any Song

[maccieblue]

Is that Jerusalem?

No, its Merseyside

 

[DiscoSteve]

"Is this the real life, is this just fantasy..."
(sorry if this is a repeat!)

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Very long for an opening line but the whole verse is practically sang on one breath which makes it so difficult to sing at it’s proper speed, so I nominate it.


In the merry month of June from me home I started
Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted
Saluted Father dear, kissed me darling mother
Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother
Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born
Cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins
A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs
Frightenin' all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin

 

[everythingchangesbutblue]

"Then as it was, then again it will be"
"Though the course my change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea"

 

[Ric]

“The screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch, as the radio plays”

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

Sang this one once or twice the last decade:

I've paid my dues
Time after time
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime

 

[Out on blue 6]

Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand

 

[Keith Moon]

God save the queen
The fascist regime

 

[Out on blue 6]

Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly

 

[The perfect fumble]

It was the third of September