Opening Lines

[kags]

Jeremy Vine is running a poll for the best opening line in a song ever - what are your suggestions? (Before someone tells me, I realise there has been a similar question before but not for a couple of years)

[j2buttonsw]

Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury has a understated poetry.

[andy hughes]

I hear that 'Rock Around The Clock' is in the last sixteen, and I think it will win - as I believe it should. It's not my favourite opening line, but I do believe it's the best.

[bobbobley]

"Come on beautiful, let's sit on the front lawn and watch the fireflies as the sun goes down" by American Music Club (Firefly) brings a tear to the eye every time I hear it.

[Jenny Tools]

Speak to me, Pink Floyd, "I've been mad for fcuking years, absolutely years, been Over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands..."

[Jenny Tools]

or The sky is crying. Stevie Ray Vaughan, "The sky is cryin....can't you see the tears roll down the street"

[Mortartube]

Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing. "Oh babe, I need some lovin'. I'm hot just like an oven". They don't write 'em like that anymore.

[kags]

The Heart is a Bloom, Shoots up Through the Stoney Ground - U2 Beautiful Day or Load up on Guns, Bring your Friends - Nirvana

[bad11thebone]

do you know where the f*ck you are, your in the jungle baby wake up time to die........ Welcome to the jungle by guns n' roses

[sft42]

Shine on You Crazy Diamond I-V by Pink Floyd

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

[bobbobley]

that must be the longest opening line in history Steve!

[mcroy]

the darkness- friday night night. "hey you, do you remeber me i used to sit next to u in school"

[del_1690]

It has to be either Nirvana's Milk It - "I am my own parasite, I dont need a host to live, we can feed off of each other, we can share our endorphins" or the Doors with the Soft Parade - "When I was back there in seminary school, there was a person there who put forth the proposition.... that you can petition the lord with prayer, petition the lord with prayer, petition the lord with prayer........YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!!!" Touching stuff from mr mojo rising. RIP