One of the best opening lines ever for a pop/rock song is _____

[BruceM]

Being alone at night makes me sad, girl

Yeah, it brings me down all right

Tossing and turning and freezing and burning

And crying all through the night

Julie, Do You Love Me (Bobby Sherman)

[Guest pirateflynn]

Julie, Julie, Julie do you care?

[elduave]

I'm an idiot. Sting Me, not Remedy.

Some good ones y'all! A bottle of vino for Rects & Pflynn. Doesn't Bernie Taupin play LA every now and then with Farmdogs (Babys content?)?

[ac15]

"Get up and get your grandma out of here."

[Aceldama]

There's a magazine called Sunset

And a tape machine that won't let

Me ever forget this impossible longing for you

[Crwth145]

" Jesus just left Chi-ca-go-o-o, and he's bound for New Or-leans... "

[Jon_Press]

1 - Stop wasting my time

You know what I want

2 - Working on a sex farm

Trying to raise some hard love

Getting out my pitch fork

Poking your hay

3 - The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'

That's what I said

The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand

Or so I have read

My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo

I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo

All from the band that goes to eleven.

[Disturber]

"I'm gonna take you higher" - Sly & The Family Stone(d)

[Jon_Press]

"I'm gonna take you higher" - Sly & The Family Stone(d)

Not an opening line, but I still like the "Boom shacka lacka lacka boom" part of that song.

[Disturber]

"I'm gonna take you higher" - Sly & The Family Stone(d)

Not an opening line, but I still like the "Boom shacka lacka lacka boom" part of that song.

You are right, I stand corrected . But a good "Boom shacka lacka lacka boom" is always a party starter, he he.

[BCR Greg]

They say we're young and we don't know

We won't find out until we grow

[kizanski]

Have you ever been....

Have you ever been to Electric Ladyland?

[Sentinel]

"Psychiatrists and Lawyers... destroying mankind;

Drivin' 'em crazy... and stealing 'em blind"

- Procol Harum "As strong as Samson"

[Hackubus]

I always thought that Jeff Tweedy/Wilco had some zingers:

"The ashtray says, you were up all night" Shot In The Arm

"hey, wake up, your eyes weren't open wide" Passenger Side

Cheap Trick:

"Have you seen her face, she's got a face that could stop a clock" He's A Whore

GNR:

"Your daddy works in porno, now that mommies' not around"

David Allen Coe

"Fuck'em in the butt, Fuck'em in the butt, Fuck'em in the butt...I'm gonna fuck the shit outta you........"

[93specialfm]

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?"

Queen

Bohemian Rhapsody

[cmatthes]

"Sweetness...

sweetness I was only joking when I said

I'd like to smash every tooth in your head.

Oh sweetness

sweetness I was only joking when I said

by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed."

Smiths - "Bigmouth Strikes Again"

[Guest pirateflynn]

Here come ol' flat top

He come ........ groovin' up slowly

[mirrorimij]

When they kick at your front door

How you gonna come

With your hands on your head

Or on the trigger of your gun

The Clash

[Jason01]

"Hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home?"

[Craig]

"Give me a choice between pleasure and pain....I choose pain"

Dio - Pain

"There I was, laid out on a table

Screamin' sweat and bare feet to the floor

In my life, I'd not soften

Things that cut, and burn so often

But I sit, think of somethin'

Scared to face, the dyin' nothin'"

AIC - It Ain't Like That

[Turdus]

"the framework of the world

is black and white

the infrastructure builders

flex their might

turning true emotion

into digital expression

one by one we all fall down"

- Bad Religion

[Guest hectorp2]

Hey, hey,

The clouds are whey.

There’s straw for the donkeys,

And the innocents can all sleep safely,

All sleep safely.

(XTC:Senses working overtime)

The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'

That's what I said

The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand

Or so I have read

(Do I need to cite this one?)

Jerry gave us a number

Jerry gave us a place to stay

and Billy got hold of a van and a man

and we moved in the very next day

to 25 41

(Grant Hart: 2541)

Other great first lines:

Muse!, Tell me of the man of many trials, who was driven on far journeys, after he had sacked Troy’s sacred citadel.

(Homer, The Odyssey)

The end of a day is a horrible day because that day will never be again.

(Daughter Margot: Age 7)

APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees

Letting his arms hang down to laugh,

The zebra stripes along his jaw

Swelling to maculate giraffe.

(T.S. Eliot: Sweeney among the Nightingales)

[robbie]

I thought of Tweedy right away, surprised to see others here, this one from his Uncle Tupelo days...

"All my daydreams are disasters". - New Madrid

[guitarzandstuff]

The long and winding road...

[tremolux]

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school

it's a wonder I can think at all...