Great opening lines to songs

harry-s

I am tall and I am thin
Of an enviable height
And I've been known to be quite handsome
In a certain angle and in certain light

Mikey23

'Careful with that axe Eugene. Aaaargh!'

Stevo_666

"I've had an absolute c*** of a day" - Kevin Bloody Wilson

bianchimoon

I'm coming up only to hold you under
And coming up only to show you're wrong
And to know you is hard; we wonder...
To know you all wrong; we warn.

The funeral - band of horses

dodgy

bless my cotton socks i'm in the news

capt_slog

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear. I like my toast done on one side.

Englishman in New York, Police

meanredspider

Capt Slog wrote:

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear. I like my toast done on one side.

Englishman in New York, Sting

**pedant alert**

dodgy wrote:

bless my cotton socks i'm in the news

Somebody wrote that line on my art folder at school when I was 15 or 16

Alex99

I'm sipping on Tanqueray
With my my mind on my money and my mouth in the ganjahy

The more of you that I inspect
The more of me I see reflect

An unforseen future nestled somewhere in time

FocusZing

Us and them
And after all we're only ordinary men.
Me and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do.

orraloon

pottssteve wrote:

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel....

This. Definitely the Johnny Cash version, supported by That video with June Carter in the background. Just heard it again tonight on t'radio, gets me every time.

trivial_poursuivant

orraloon wrote:

pottssteve wrote:

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel....

This. Definitely the Johnny Cash version, supported by That video with June Carter in the background. Just heard it again tonight on t'radio, gets me every time.

Yes. Songs about heroin addiction are wonderful ain't they?

FocusZing

Ooh stick you
Your mama too
And your daddy

Daphne & Celeste, Ooh Stick You.

crispybug2

Trivial poursuivant wrote:

Yes. Songs about heroin addiction are wonderful ain't they?

Under The Bridge
Perfect Day
Golden Brown
Comfortably Numb
I'm Waiting For The Man

Yep, they're pretty f**king cracking!!

orraloon

Trivial poursuivant wrote:

Yes. Songs about heroin addiction are wonderful ain't they?

Yebbut. Set aside the Nine Inch Nails original.

Seek out the iconic video, watch then remember June Carter Cash died 3 months after it was filmed and JC himself died 7 months after. Takes a hard hard person not to be moved.

FatTed

Comfortably Numb was written after an anaesthetic not heroin addiction
from wiki
According to Rolling Stone, the lyrics came from Roger Waters' experience when he was injected with tranquilizers for stomach cramps by a doctor prior to playing a Pink Floyd show in Philadelphia on the band's 1977 In the Flesh tour

pinno

'A long time ago came a man on a track
Walkin' 30 miles with a sack on his back...'

'When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful...'

'Your six blade knife can do anything for you...'

'No more carefree laughter
Silence ever after...'

'It's three o'clock in the morning
And the rain begin to fall...'

'Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again...'

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

'Ain't no sunshine when she's gone...'

'La mer...'

'Everybody's talking at me
I don't hear a word they're saying
Only the echoes of my mind...'

'Mahna Mahna
Do doo be-do-do...'

'Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone...'

'Getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that I choose...'

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

'I got a gal who's always late
Any time we have a date...'

'There she stood in the street
Smiling from her head to her feet...'

'When I wake up in the morning, love
And the sunlight hurts my eyes...'

'I, I'm I'm so in love with you
Whatever you want to do
Is all right with me...'

'Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man: no time to talk...'

'I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told...'

'Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together...'

'All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is grey (and the sky is grey)...'

'The sirens are screaming, and the fires are howling
Way down in the valley tonight...'

'I need love, love to ease my mind
I need to find, find someone to call mine...'

'Dirty old river, must you keep rolling...'

'We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much baby...'

'Rising up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances...'

'He left no time to regret
Kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet...'

pinno

...and how could I forget:

'On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air...'

trivial_poursuivant

crispybug2 wrote:

Trivial poursuivant wrote:

Yes. Songs about heroin addiction are wonderful ain't they?

Under The Bridge
Perfect Day
Golden Brown
Comfortably Numb
I'm Waiting For The Man

Yep, they're pretty f**king cracking!!

They are about drugs in some particular form or another and their effects. Not about the hopelessness of addiction to heroin. There is a difference.

Perfect day , According to Lou Reed, is not about drugs. A lot of his songs were but this isn't. Get fact ms from proper places not wiki.

mr_goo

A thousand nights, I've spent alone
Solitaire to the bone
But I don't mind. I'm my own best friend
From the beginning, to the end
My life, my heart, black night, my star



She's been gone since yesterday
Oh I didn't care
Never cared for yesterdays
Fancies in the air



She take you down easy
Going down to her knees
Going down to the devil
Down down to ninety degrees
Oh, she's blowing me crazy
Till my ammunition is dry

FocusZing

I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing
Just prayed to a God that I don't believe in
'Cause I got time while she got freedom
'Cause when a heart breaks, no, it don't break even


Welcome to your life, there's no turning back,
Even while we sleep,
We will find you acting on your best behavior
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

capt_slog

FatTed wrote:

Comfortably Numb was written after an anaesthetic not heroin addiction
from wiki
According to Rolling Stone, the lyrics came from Roger Waters' experience when he was injected with tranquilizers for stomach cramps by a doctor prior to playing a Pink Floyd show in Philadelphia on the band's 1977 In the Flesh tour

Some years ago there was a documentary about Gerald Scarfe, the cartoonist who did a lot of the designs for The Wall album. The documentary featured him in a large, open-ceilinged "room", with white walls, in which he basically painted his life story as he talked about it, starting in one corner and moving round until he'd filled it.

The bit that I remember in this context was the drawing of himself as a kid with balloon hands, and he explained that when he had a fever as a child, that's what it felt like!

I don't think that was the only 'Wall' reference either, it seemed like he had a lot of input into the story of the album.

eric_draven

Trivial poursuivant wrote:

orraloon wrote:

pottssteve wrote:

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel....

This. Definitely the Johnny Cash version, supported by That video with June Carter in the background. Just heard it again tonight on t'radio, gets me every time.

Yes. Songs about heroin addiction are wonderful ain't they?

Have quite a softness for songs about heroin,I must be one of a few that actually prefers the original,Trent Reznor wrote it about his first drummer that died of an overdose
Quite a different version on YouTube if look for Kermit the frog doing it great video in a twisted sort way

eric_draven

I can't believe the news today,I can't close my eyes and make it go away

Sunday Bloody Sunday U2

Every time I look in the mirror all these lines on my face getting clearer,
The past has gone
In the night like dusk till dawn,isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay

Dreams On Aerosmith

forehead

Cake by Snuff has a pretty good opening line.

bianchimoon

eric draven wrote:

Trivial poursuivant wrote:

orraloon wrote:

pottssteve wrote:

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel....

This. Definitely the Johnny Cash version, supported by That video with June Carter in the background. Just heard it again tonight on t'radio, gets me every time.

Yes. Songs about heroin addiction are wonderful ain't they?

Have quite a softness for songs about heroin,I must be one of a few that actually prefers the original,Trent Reznor wrote it about his first drummer that died of an overdose
Quite a different version on YouTube if look for Kermit the frog doing it great video in a twisted sort way

I caught you knockin'
At my cellar door
I love you, baby,
Can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.

I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
Take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.

eric_draven

bianchimoon wrote:

eric draven wrote:

Trivial poursuivant wrote:

orraloon wrote:

pottssteve wrote:

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel....

This. Definitely the Johnny Cash version, supported by That video with June Carter in the background. Just heard it again tonight on t'radio, gets me every time.

Yes. Songs about heroin addiction are wonderful ain't they?

Have quite a softness for songs about heroin,I must be one of a few that actually prefers the original,Trent Reznor wrote it about his first drummer that died of an overdose
Quite a different version on YouTube if look for Kermit the frog doing it great video in a twisted sort way

I caught you knockin'
At my cellar door
I love you, baby,
Can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.

I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
Take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.

Mr Young he played this at Leeds last year

Pross

Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth - VTech

mamba80

(Yow! One, two)
Out on the town, looking for a woman
Gonna give me good love
Anybody want to hang out with me?
And maybe burn me up?
She was standing alone over by the jukebox
Like she's something to sell
I said, Baby what's the going price?
She told me to go to hell

secretsam

dodgy wrote:

bless my cotton socks i'm in the news

The Teardrop Explodes - "Reward", yes?

orraloon

She unscrews the top of her new whisky bottle
And shuffles about in her candle-lit hovel
Like some kind of witch, with blue fingers in mittens
She smells like a cat and the neighbours she sickens.

Squeeze, Labelled With Love, heard on t'radio on t'way home.