Best Opening Lyrics

[BigHornRam]

The best opening lyrics only need one line.

I was born in a crossfire hurricane

 

[BobT1105]

I know it’s not really the opening line but it’s a good one!

If I close my eyes forever

 

[BobT1105]

You walked on the scene already a legend

 

[Tradewind]

A gypsy wind is blowin' warm tonight
The sky is starlit and the time is right
And still you're tellin' me you have to go
Before you leave, there's something you should know

I've seen you smiling in the summer sun

 

[noharleyyet]

unfortunately so
Harley, these guys are your quintessential best opening lyrics

…and guitar riffs (reelin in the years)

 

[Redmt]

Has anyone mentioned "Free Bird"?

 

[noharleyyet]

Has anyone mentioned "Free Bird"?

 

[Redmt]

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The old Zippos. When you over filled them it gave a nasty rash on your leg.

 

[noharleyyet]

The old Zippos. When you over filled them it gave a nasty rash on your leg.

Old school, had a dozen...didn't smoke

 

[Alpine01]

I can think of a couple ...

"Got out of town on a boat, going to Southern islands
Sailing a reach before a following sea
She was making for the trades on the outside
And the downhill run to Papeete ..."

"The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling
Way down in the valley tonight
There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye
And a blade shining, oh, so bright
There's evil in the air, there's thunder in the sky
And a killer's on the bloodshot streets
Oh, and down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising
Oh, I swear I saw a young boy down in the gutter
He was starting to foam in the heat ..."

 

[Corywiseman]

"Well my daddy always said you're only as good as who you're hangin with, So I was hanging with the best, of the worst kind."

 

[elkduds]

Woke up this mornin', put on my slippers,
walked in the kitchen and died.

 

[elkduds]

All my friends know the low rider.


The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine.

 

[elkduds]

I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky.
I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers, but time is still turning, they soon will be dry.

 

[elkduds]

Brother bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime.

 

[JV842]

Everything gonna be alright this mornin'
Now, when I was a young boy
At the age of five
My mother said I was gonna be
The greatest man alive
But now I'm a man
I'm age twenty-one
I want you to believe me, honey
We having lots of fun

 

[44hunter45]

The now cancelled Larry Norman (rightfully so, IMHO)
Mamma killed the chicken
She thought it was a duck
She put it on the table
With its legs sticking up

Papa broke his glasses
When he fell down drunk
Tried to drown the kitty cat
Turned out to be a skunk

 

[noharleyyet]

Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands

Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away