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What are your favourite or most memorable opening lines to a song? I listened to "National Sh*te Day" by Half Man Half biscuit today for the first time in ages and it struck me that I don't think I've ever heard a better opener:

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

Makes me smile anyway.... any suggestions folks?


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:15 pm
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'i was born in a cross fire hurricane' Stones jumpin jack flash


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:22 pm
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Son, I'm thirty
I only went with your mother cos she's dirty


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:23 pm
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"masturbation saved my life" by Therapy. Can't remember which album.


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:24 pm
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When I woke up this morning, things were lookin' bad
Seem like total silence was the only friend I had
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won
And it was twelve o'clock before I realized
That I was havin' .. no fun

Illegal Smile - John Prine


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:26 pm
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indeed white101.


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:27 pm
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Always loved 'One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small'

and "New York, I Love You
But you're bringing me down"

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Posted : 23/03/2012 11:33 pm
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she was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:33 pm
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"I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm"


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:35 pm
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On the first day of March it was raining
It was raining worse than anything that I have ever seen
I drank ten pints of beer and I cursed all the people there
and I wished to God that that all this raining would stop falling down on me.

Have you heard [i]Rock n roll is full of bad wools[/i] by HFMB marvin? A hymn to the nation in many ways:


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:36 pm
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Don't know about best, but certainly memorable - Plaistrow Patricia by Ian Dury... can't really type it here due to the naughty filter.. 😉

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Posted : 23/03/2012 11:38 pm
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Not heard that HMHB track Garry, cheers. Love Joy Division Oven Gloves too, and Restless Legs.


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:46 pm
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Hello, good evening, welcome to nothing much
A no holds barred half-nelson and the loving touch
The comfort and the joy of feeling lost
With the only living boy in New Cross


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:46 pm
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Un dos tres quatro- every Sepultura song ever.

Ah bellerephon, what a first line...


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:48 pm
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Oh - stop

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:51 pm
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First we get some surgery
lose the kids and our identities


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:52 pm
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I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho ****'s
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:52 pm
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"I'm so drunk"

Not a lyric but the opener to Pay Your Price (I Won't)

Also, "Stop mincing about", Jailbait


 
Posted : 23/03/2012 11:55 pm
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Unstoppable force and immovable object,
repel one another when by chance colliding.
The Brownian-Motion within this love potion,
ensures our opinions are always dividing.


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 12:16 am
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I don't wanna' meet your mom and dad,
Unless you'll let me fK your mom and dress your dad in drag.


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 12:20 am
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Not strictly a lyric but....

"Good Morning Mr Tyler...Going Down"

or

"There's a lot of stupid people out there, doing a lot of stupid things"


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 12:26 am
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"masturbation saved my life" by Therapy. Can't remember which album.

Troublegum


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 12:48 am
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anyway

"where shall we go from here?
is it down to the lake I fear?"

why did he fear the lake?

Haircut 100, Fantastic Day I think.


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 12:50 am
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Another great HMHB opening salvo:

Well my name it is Dai Young
I’m the King of Welsh Goth
The village I come from
Is near Abersoch
I was brought up on Bauhaus
And black bedroom walls
And I had my first Snakebite
When I was in halls


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 1:16 am
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"She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge"
Pulp - Common People

"There's no quick fix
You gotta take your licks"
Nada Surf - No Quick Fix


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 1:47 am
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"She wore big knickers and she worked at 'sewage farm.
Got me hands down her jeans and I nearly lost half me arm..."

Macc Lads - Sweaty Betty 😀


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 1:52 am
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In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey - Loser, Beck

When routine bites hard,
And ambitions are low,
And resentment rides high,
But emotions won't grow,
And we're changing our ways,
Taking different roads - Love will tear us apart, Joy Division

She could never ever ever ever ever ever ever get it into her thick head - You fu#@ing Love It, Dirty Pretty Things


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 2:30 am
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Pulp, Feeling Called Love...

The room is cold,
and it's been like this for several months.
If I close my eyes I can visualise everything in it.
Right down, right down to the broken handle of the third drawer
down of the dressing table.
And the world outside this room has
assumed a familiar shape, the same events shuffled in a slightly
different order each day, just like a modern shopping centre.


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 2:35 am
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He has a powerful weapon....


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 3:31 am
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Back in black
I hit the sack


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 4:37 am
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The Distant Echo
Of Faraway Voices Boarding Faraway Trains
To Take Them Home To
The Wives That They Love And Who Love Them Forever

Or

There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the thief

Or

I shake my head and shiver
They smile and they stab my back as they shake my hand
Send out an S.O.S please
Come quickly
I'm marooned in Monkeyland


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 7:56 am
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I've got something to say
I killed your mother today


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 8:08 am
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I'd go with one of these two:

Disclaimer: there are some rather naughty words in the second one.


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 8:22 am
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there's a spider in the bathtub
a cockroach in the sink
toilet seat is broken
chain hasn't got a link

the wurzels "there's a spider in the bathtub" 😀


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 8:27 am
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"Everyday I shit into the sea
its strange but it doesn't mean much to me
I'm living in a porcelain dream
and things aren't quite what they seem"

Regurgitator-everyday


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 8:29 am
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I know it's out of fashion
And a trifle uncool
But i can't help it
I'm a romantic fool

Martha and the Muffins, Echo Beach


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 8:44 am
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I'm a little pimp with my hair gassed back
Pair a khaki pants with my shoes shined black

FZ


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 9:28 am
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You're unlovable
And have nothing anyone could possibly want

And by the same band:

Pick a card. Any card.
Wrong...


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 9:36 am
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" i push my fingers into my eyes " slipnot


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 4:14 pm
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I'm in Tokyo; I'm lookin' for a ho(-oo-oo)
I try to score some blow; but I don't speak-a Japanese - no

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Posted : 24/03/2012 4:21 pm
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"I may not always love you"


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 4:21 pm
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wraparound shades on a weakling pasty face
hipster pants on a feeble ass - bad taste


 
Posted : 24/03/2012 4:32 pm
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I've been on tenterhooks ending in dirty looks,
list'ning to the Muzak, thinking 'bout this 'n' that.
She said that's that.I don't wanna chitter-chat.
Turn it down a little bit or turn it down flat.

Pump it up Elvis Costello


 
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Nice girls not one with a defect,
cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct.
Red dogs under illegal legs.
She looks so good that he gets down and begs.

more elvis, watching the dectectives


 
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I shake my head and shiver
They smile and they stab my back as they shake my hand
Send out an S.O.S please
Come quickly
I'm marooned in Monkeyland

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"In his autumn before the winter comes man's last mad surge of youth."


 
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