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Songs - Best Opening Lyrics

AN old man turned 98
he hit the lottery and dies the next day...

That whole album was awesome. And no I don't play for Cap's team, but this was a masterpiece.
 
How many roads must a man walk down. Before they can call him a man?

There are places I remember. All my life though some have changed.

Big wheels keep on turning. Carry me home to see my kin.

Out here in the fields. I fight for my meals.

A love struck Romeo sings the streets a serenade; laying everybody low with a love song that he made.
Finds a streetlight, steps out of the shade. Says something like "You and me babe: how 'bout it?"

Nice girls, not one with a defect. Cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct.

I can't seem to face up to the facts. I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax.

There's a lady who's sure. All that glitters is gold.

You, who are on the road. Must have a code that you can live by.

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"I am an anti-christ, I am an anarchist."

"Hello darkness my old friend"

"I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know if you know what I mean"

"Somethings happening here, what is is ain't exactly clear."

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we're finally on our own"

"Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are"

"The marching band came down along main street, the soldier blues fell in behind"

"Huh, yeah, woo, hey yeah, huh. Ooh yeah, uh huh, yeah, I want to dance"

"We've only just begun to live, white lace and promises"

"Trapped in a mine that had caved in and everyone knows the only ones left were Joe and me and Tim"

And just for Cap:

"Seventy-three men sailed up, from the San Francisco Bay."

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Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying be so quiet,

On the turning away from the pale and downtrodden,

Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train,

Let my inspiration flow in token rhyme suggesting rhythm,


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"Opening" lyrics are generally the first bar only.

If we can use two it changes things ..

I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.
 
Baby hit the back door breathing real heavy Townes Van Zant. Pack up all your dishes. make note of all your wishes. Guy Clark. Holly came from Miami FLA Lou Reed

Which reminds me:

Pack up all my cares and woes
Here I go
Swingin low ...



Pack up all my cares and woes
Here I go
Feelin' low ...

 
Which reminds me:

I've seen the bright lights of Memphis
And the Commodore Hotel ...


The screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways (or waves)
Like a vision she dances across the porch, as the radio plays

Tear drops on the city
Bad Scooter searching for his groove

41 shots, and we'll take that ride
Across this bloody river to the other side

I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396
Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor

Hey, Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks
And tonight can you get us a ride

The rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line

Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night
Now, they blew up his house, too

Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland
Got a head-on collision, smashin’ in my guts man

One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in

Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
 
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light

The wind is blowing 'cross the mountains
And out on the valley way below
It sweeps the grave of my darling
When I die that's where I want to go

(Yeah - its a whole stanza, but WTF).
 
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I'm not sure if there's a point to this story But I'm going to tell it again
So many other people try to tell the tale Not one of them knows the end
 
"I can't seem to face up to the facts, I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax."

"Watch out, you might get what you're after, cool babies, strange but not a stranger."

"Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons, packed up and ready to go."

"Now, let me tell you a story, the Devil he has a plan."

"Well, we know where we're going, but we don't know where we've been."

All by my favorite band of all time.
 
"Young teacher . . ."

"Walk along the river, sweet lullaby . . . "

"Harry got up, dressed all in black . . ."

"It was a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well . . . "

"I came upon a child of God . . ."

"I've been walkin, in my sleep, countin troubles instead of countin sheep."

"On a dark desert highway . . ."

"Wake up Maggie . . ."

"Hit the road, Jack . . ."

"R-E-S-P-E-C-T . . . "

"Wake up momma, turn your lamp down low . . ."

"They paved Paradise . . ."

"Crossroads, seem to come and go . . ."

"It's another tequila highway . . ."

"Lord I was born a ramblin' man . . ."

"Way down in Louisiana close to New Orleans . . ."
 
I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, you know you always have the Lord by your side
And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran
Twenty red lights in his honor
Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord
 
Time for a song - a good one - with lots of good lyrics:



You get a shiver in the dark
It's raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double four time
You feel alright when you hear that music ring

Well, now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Competition in too many other places
Oh, but the horns, they're blowing that sound
Way on down south, way on down south London town

You check out Guitar George
He knows all them fancy chords
Mind it's strictly rhythm
He doesn't wanna make it cry or sing
Said his old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make that fancy scene
He's got a daytime job, he's doing quite alright
He can play the honky tonk like anything
Saving it for a Friday night
With the Sultans, with the Sultans of Swing

And see a crowd of boys, fooling around in the corner
Dressed in their baggies and their best king drawers
They don't give a damn about any trumpet-playing band
It ain't what they call "Rock 'n' Roll"
And the Sultans, oh yeah, the Sultans, they play Creole

And then the man, he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last as the time bell rings
"Goodnight, now it's time to go home."
Then he makes it fast with one more thing,
"We are the Sultans, we are the Sultans of Swing."

[turn it up]
[awesome guitar]
[piano pause]
[rebuild]
[big finish with more awesome guitar]

He looks like Putin . . . in the face anyway . . . .
 


It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk

That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

And it's knowin' I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line

That keeps you in the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that bind me

Or something that somebody said because
They thought we fit together walkin’

It's just knowing that the world
Will not be cursing or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad track and find

That you're movin' on the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us

And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
'Cause she turned and I was gone

I still might run in silence
Tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind

But not to where I cannot see
You walkin' on the back roads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron
In some train yard

My beard a rustlin' coal pile
And a dirty hat pulled low across my face

Through cupped hands 'round a tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

That you're waitin' from the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind
 
At last, my love has come along


Watch out, you might get what you're after


The first thing I remember knowing was a lonesome whistle blowing


All of the ladies attending the ball
Are requested to gaze in the faces found on the dance card
 
"In my shoes my toes are busted
My kitchen says my bread is molded
Got a good job at the dollar store"


And an entire song, by the great Ben Folds, just because...

Good morning, son
I am a bird
Wearing a brown polyester shirt
You want a Coke?
Maybe some fries?
The roast beef combo's only nine ninety five
But it's okay
You don't have to pay
I've got all the change
Everybody knows
It hurts to grow up
And everybody does
It's so weird to be back here
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We're still fighting it
We're still fighting it
And you're so much like me
I'm sorry
Good morning, son
Twenty years from now
Maybe we'll both sit down
And have a few beers
And I can tell
You 'bout today
And how I picked you up
And everything changed
It was pain
Sunny days and rain
I knew you'd feel the same things
Everybody knows
It sucks to grow up
And everybody does
It's so weird to be back here
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We're still fighting it
We're still fighting it
You'll try and try
And one day you'll fly
Away from me
Good morning, son
(Good morning, son)
I am a bird
(Good morning, son)
(Good morning, son)
It was pain
Sunny days and rain
I knew you'd feel the same things
Everybody knows
It hurts to grow up
And everybody does
It's so weird to be back here
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We're still fighting it
We're still fighting it, oh
We're still fighting it
We're still fighting it
And you're so much like me
I'm sorry
 
Not only the best lyrics, but the truest words ever written

Been dazed and confused for so long it's not true
Wanted a woman, never bargained for you
Lots of people talk and few of them know
Soul of a woman was created below, yeah
 
A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile.

I met her in a club down in North Soho. Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola

Young teacher, the subject. Of schoolgirl fantasy. She wants him so badly. Knows what she wants to be

There's a smart young woman on a light blue screen. Who comes into my house every night
 
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Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone . . .

Something in the way she moves . . .

In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina . . .

Take to the highway, won't you lend me your name . . .

Do me wrong, do me right . . .
 
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Saw this topic on the Twitter

Hard to choose just one

What opening lyric grabs you, makes you listen...

Heres a few, but I gotta admit the opening music plays a role too.

“Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day...”

“Busted flat in Baton Rouge, heading for the trains...”

“Well, I got to run to keep from hiding ... “

“Living on the road my friend, was gonna keep you free and clean...”

“He said ‘I’ll love you til I die.’ She told him ‘you’ll forget in time.”
Well my daddy left home when I was three
Didn't leave much to my mom and me
Except this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
Now, I don't blame him 'cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that my daddy ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me Sue
 
Well my daddy left home when I was three
Didn't leave much to my mom and me
Except this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
Now, I don't blame him 'cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that my daddy ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me Sue

And now the end is near

Jane says, I’m done with Sergio

Your daddy works in porno now that mommy’s not around

People say I’m crazy, Doing what I’m doing

There are colors on the street, red white and blue

Pistol shots rang out in a barroom night

The waiting drive me mad, you’re finally here and I’m a mess
 
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Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone . . .

Something in the way she moves . . .

In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina . . .

Take to the highway, won't you lend me your name . . .

Do me wrong, do me right . . .

Way down here, you need a reason to move. Feel a fool running your stateside games

There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range. His horse and his cattle are his only companions
 
At last, my love has come along


Watch out, you might get what you're after


The first thing I remember knowing was a lonesome whistle blowing


All of the ladies attending the ball
Are requested to gaze in the faces found on the dance card

I met two kind people on the road...



Listen to my Bluebird laugh,she can't tell you why



There's a woman.that you ought to know...(Grace Slick)



When the dream came I held my breath with my eyes closed



Oh, hello Mr. Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason For the thought that I caught that my head is the event of the season



49 reasons,all in a line All of them good ones all of them lies...

 
I met two kind people on the road...



Listen to my Bluebird laugh,she can't tell you why



There's a woman.that you ought to know...(Grace Slick)



When the dream came I held my breath with my eyes closed



Oh, hello Mr. Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason For the thought that I caught that my head is the event of the season



49 reasons,all in a line All of them good ones all of them lies...



This is a whole new thread...

"She was standing at the load-in when the trucks rolled up"

Category- Songs about masturbation with my Mom's name in the title for $800 Alex...

Answer What is ROSIE...
 
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This is a whole new thread...

"She was standing at the load-in when the trucks rolled up"

Category- Songs about masturbation with my Mom's name in the title for $800 Alex...

Answer What is ROSIE...


Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night
With bruised arms and broken rhythm in a beat-up old Buick but dressed just like dynamite

Your mama's yappin' in the back seat
Tell her to push over and move them big feet
 
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