[Closed] Best opening lyric?

"A screen door slams, Mary's dress waves"

'I don’t believe in an interventionist God'.....

Maybe not the best, but one of my favourites...

[i]Don't call it a come back[/i]

Edit: maybe not the highbrow response the OP was after (-:

When you were young and your heart was an open book
You used to say live and let live

I don't do what you do and you don't do what I do but you should do, you

I'm hot, and when I not, I'm cold as ice.

Do you have the time to listen to me whine.

Continuing on from thestabiliser's Mancunian post:

"Son, I'm thirty, I only went with your mother cos she's dirty"

"I don't have to sell my soul, he's already in me"

I can already hear your tune, calling me across the room.

Yeah, we're comin' back then with another bombtrack

In Reno town for a few dollars down, you can buy yourself ... a separation
- Tony Christie

Yo, VIP, let's kick it!

It's a big job just gettin by with nine kids and a wife

You may have to rescue me from limestone quarries, frequently.....

"Cat's foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
Twenty first century schizoid man"
Back in 1969, those words made something of an impression.

"Woah to you o' Earth and Sea..."

"Do you know where the **** you are..."

In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man.

I love you from the bottom of my pencil case

Beautiful south.

I must have walked past this doorway 30 times just trying to catch your eye

When the routine bites hard And ambitions are low

Wont you lend your lungs to me, mine are collapsing.

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog

Fu Manchu - what a ****in band....!

Saw them live in a very small venue years ago - SO loud n heavy 🙂

Any video with a Sandrail in wins as well!

I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog

August and Everything After still feels as fresh today as it did back in 93 when I ran down to Woolies to get it.

City girls just seem to find out early how to open doors with just a smile

"I guess I'm still angry, I'm still punching walls that look like you
I drop kicked an old lady, She didn't do anything
There are consequences for inactions, too"

Owen, No Language.

I betcha wonder how I knew....

All men have secrets and here is mine...

Bring the mother f**ckin ruckus

Three that always spring to mind

'I woke up in a Soho doorway,
a policeman knew my name'

And...

[quote=Kryton57]
"[s]Woah[/s] [b]WOE[/b] to you, oh Earth and Sea..."

Sorry for the pedantry*

*Not sorry

If we're the flagship of peace and prosperity
We're taking on water and about to ******* sink

Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long

@simonbarnes - that was the first line that immediately sprung to my mind. Second was howsyourdad1's "I betcha wonder how I knew"

Them belly full but we hungry
A hungry mob is a angry mob
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough

Poah, finally another ministry fan! 8)

I'm a lineman for the county

Or

Yeaaaahhhhhh boiiiiiiiiiii

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast

I don't need no one's opinion
On the matter concerning my dress
I was raised in a clinic down in Oklahoma
There were many things I did not possess

Well my name it is Dai Young
I’m the King of Welsh Goth,
The village I come from
Is near Abersoch..

I get violent when I'm swear filtered up,
I get silent when I'm doped up,
I want excitement,
Don't get none I go wild

Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhah!

[i]In his autumn before the winter comes man's last mad surge of youth[/i]

@benjim - Immigrant Song?

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey

Many songs by The Hold Steady have great lyrics and their first lines are no exceptions.

She drove it like she stole it, she stole it fast, with a multitude of casualties.

There are nights when I think Sal Paradise was right, boys and girls in America have such a sad time together.

If they ask about Charlemagne, be polite and say something vague, like another lover lost to the restaurant raids.

She said always remember never to trust me, she said that the first night that she met me. She said there's gonna come a time when I'm gonna have to go, with whoever's gonna get me the highest.

I am Ironman...

Klunk - Member
When the routine bites hard And ambitions are low

"Bass! How low can you go?"

"Lonely is the room, the bed is made - the only window lets the rain in."

"Billy Ray was a preachers son, when his daddy visit - he'd come along."

"Autumn leaves are falling all around, time I was on my way..."

You might see me walking round with a slight limp. It's not a 'G' thing bruv I done me ankle in...

Dizraeli-Nevermind

I met a young man, on the skeleton coast,
He was out on his feet, pale as a ghost

Punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?

when I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom

Metallica's So What is rather poignant and always opens a world of pondering....

Running slow like cold engines do,
On the hills of bleak mornings through
The streets are ready to explode
But I won't die today

I met her in the Museum of Paleontology & I make no bones about it.

Pulling the ice axe from my leg, I staggered on, spindrift stinging my remaining eye.

'Allo, I'm-a Giuseppe, I got-a something special-a for you, ready?
Uno, duo, tre, quatro

glasgowdan - Member
Metallica's So What is rather poignant and always opens a world of pondering...

Pondering things like 'have Metallica really been to Hastings, Brighton and Eastbourne?' It's a cover version 🙂

You can tell by the way that I use my walk, that I'm a womans man, no time to talk.

Son, I'm thirty
I only went with your mother 'cos she's dirty
and I don't have a decent bone in me
What you get is just what you see

Kick out the jams mother****ers!

I was a PFC on a search patrol, huntin' Charlie down
It was in the jungle wars of '65

The world is ****ed, and so am I.
Maybe it's the other way 'round, I can't seem to decide.

What we've got here is failure to communicate.

If I had my way
I would move to another lifetime
I'd quit my job
Ride the train through the misty nighttime
I'll be ready when my feet touch ground
Wherever I come down
And if the folks will have me
Then they'll have me

perchypanther - Member

[s]Pack it in[/s] Shaddup ya face, I will have some of your crap tunes in my head all day 🙂

KICK IT!

I like big butts, and I can not lie.

Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind.

Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playin' in the street gonna be a big man some day
You got mud on yo' face
You big Disgrace
Kickin' your can all over the place....

You have so many relationships in this life
Only one or two will last
You go through all the pain and strife
Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast

😈

A O, let's go! A O, let's go!

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bang bang

I always flirt with death

I will have some of your crap tunes in my head all day

You should be so lucky!

Lucky.....lucky.....lucky.....

Same old boring Sunday morning Old man's out washing the car

[i]Kick out the jams, m********ers !
Yeah! I, I, I, I, I'm gonna
I'm gonna kick 'em out ! Yeah ![/i]

Spent all day trying to decide about the things you said last night.
Did they mean nothing, or were they filled with hidden clues?

Life, oh life, oh life, oh life,
Doo, doot doot dooo.

Tumble outta bed
And I stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition

My daddy was the family bassman

"Fall Prey to the Blizzard Head, wrapped my hand around the glass again, we all thought that I would change as I got older"

"One, two, one, two, three, four.....

Shed a tear 'cause I'm missin' you"

Packing your bags like people in the movies do,
All severe, and not saying a word,
And I'm sitting down here just watching you,
And I'm thinking:
Where has all the love gone?
Where's the love gone to?
Don't leave

@benjim - Immigrant Song?

Slayer - Angel of Death!