Best Opening Lyrics

[Nunyacreek]

we were standing on the mountaintop
Where the cactus flowers grow
We were wishing that the world would stop
When she said “we better go”

 

[Nunyacreek]

There’s an Elvis movie on the marquee sign
We’ve all seen at least three times

 

[Gut Shot]

"Danger! In the shape of something wild."

 

[BrentD]

Not tunes, but 1st lines in novels.

Great novels always open with killer first sentences

"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills."

"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing"

"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."

Opening sentences are like guitar riff intros.

 

[JV842]

Headbangers in leather
Sparks flyin' in the dead of the night
It all comes together
When they shoot out the lights
Fifty thousand watts of power
And it's pushin' overload
The beast is ready to devour
All the metal they can hold
Reachin' overload
Start to explode

 

[noharleyyet]

Not tunes, but 1st lines in novels.

Great novels always open with killer first sentences

"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills."

"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing"

"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."

Opening sentences are like guitar riff intros.

Watched "Out of Africa" night before last...had forgotten how good it was.

 

[noharleyyet]

SIAP

Sherry was a waitress
At the only joint in town

 

[Ben Lamb]

So, you've been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car, thinkin' you'll go far
Back east, your type don't crawl

 

[BrentD]

Been so long since a strange woman has slept in my bed...

 

[noharleyyet]

I once had a girl
Or should I say she once had me

 

[noharleyyet]

Well lookin back when I met you, we were shiny, we were brand new
A couple kids who'd never been to town

 

[noharleyyet]

"I got these lines in my face / Tryin' to straighten out the wrinkles in my life
When I think of all the fools I've been / It's a wonder that I've sailed this many miles."

 

[shrapnel]

Beatles

Polythene Pam:

Well, you should see Polythene Pam
She's so good-looking but she looks like a man
Well, you should see her in drag dressed in her polythene bag
Yes, you should see Polythene Pam
See Polythene Pam

 

[Tradewind]

 

[Ben Lamb]

I have a pen
I have an apple

Uh

Apple-pen

 

[Ben Lamb]

Alberta, let your hair hang low

 

[Bonasababy]

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy...

Now thats a name change I could get behind...

 

[Bonasababy]

This one is right up there with catching attention right away....

 

[BrentD]

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy...

Now thats a name change I could get behind...

You know, its current name is, more or less, a direct translation of its original name.