[Closed] Best opening lyrics

'i was born in a cross fire hurricane' Stones jumpin jack flash

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

"masturbation saved my life" by Therapy. Can't remember which album.

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

indeed white101.

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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she was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean

"I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm"

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:

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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Not heard that HMHB track Garry, cheers. Love Joy Division Oven Gloves too, and Restless Legs.

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

Un dos tres quatro- every Sepultura song ever.

Ah bellerephon, what a first line...

Oh - stop

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

First we get some surgery
lose the kids and our identities

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

"I'm so drunk"

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

Also, "Stop mincing about", Jailbait

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.

I don't wanna' meet your mom and dad,
Unless you'll let me fK your mom and dress your dad in drag.

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"

"masturbation saved my life" by Therapy. Can't remember which album.

Troublegum

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.

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

"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

"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 😀

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

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.

He has a powerful weapon....

Back in black
I hit the sack

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

I've got something to say
I killed your mother today

I'd go with one of these two:

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

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" 😀

"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

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

I'm a little pimp with my hair gassed back
Pair a khaki pants with my shoes shined black

FZ

You're unlovable
And have nothing anyone could possibly want

And by the same band:

Pick a card. Any card.
Wrong...

" i push my fingers into my eyes " slipnot

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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"I may not always love you"

wraparound shades on a weakling pasty face
hipster pants on a feeble ass - bad taste

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

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

Bregante - Member

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."

Northwind

Ah bellerephon, what a first line...

Carter fan North?

Another favourite opening of mine is, imagine boots marching......

crunch crunch crunch crunch
crunch crunch crunch crunch
crunch crunch crunch crunch
crunch crunch crunch crunch

Cheap holidays in other people's misery

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

What on earth are you talking about?

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Señores y señoras, nosotros tenemos mas influencia con sus hijos, que tu tienes.

Pero los queremos

Creado y areglado de Los Angeles... Juana's adiccion

Serious man, your f*cking Missus is nuts. My Missus is nuts 'n' all. She rings me at least 40 times a day... serious.

Goldie Looking Chain. Your Missus is a nutter.

Leaning in your corner like a candidate for wax,
sidewalk social scientist, don't get no satisfaction
from your cigarette, it's ten to ten, time is running out,
lock up all your memories, get out of here, you know that we can run.

11.59 - Blondie

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel

NIN - hurt

Love the glc and carter tunes....

Marble arch criminals and clause 28ers

"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

A true scooterboy classic, but I like Macc Lads - Beer and Sex and Chips and Gravy...

'Cleaned my teeth, put on my best clobber,
Tonight's the night I'm going to knob her
Vauxhall Viva's covered in rust,
But you can't sh@g a bird on a 29 bus'

John that's Love plus one but not the opening lyric...many others aren't either.

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey

Hell yes - "Kill the headlights and put it in neutral..."

I love the start of Public Enemy's [i]Louder Than A Bomb[/i]:

[i]This style seems wild
Wait before you treat me like a stepchild[/i]

Alright Chuck, I'll wait.

Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack,
I went out for a ride and never went back,

Hungry Heart- The Boss

Hey little girl is your daddy home
did he go and leave you all alone
.
Bruce Springstein "l 'm on fire "

Pick any Springsteen track.
Or any Half Man Half Biscuit for something a bit lighter.

punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate, will nature make a man of me yet.

seeing as we are on biking forum

I'm doing you a favour as I'm taking all your money
I guess I should feel sorry but I don't even trust me

Train of Consequenes, Megadeth

And whoever put up the opening to Last Caress, good call

"All you hippies better face reality"

Not what you're after but the best last line . Bonzo Dog Doodah Band .
" I'm the urban spaceman baby here's the twist , I don't exist" .

"I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm"

I can recommend the EMF cover version

First I was afraid, I was petrified.

Your knuckles whiten on the wheel, the last thing that your hands will feel, your final flight can't be delayed

Always a cheery one that

you are astronomical fans of alcohol
so welcome in

BSP - waving flags

"I was 37, you were 17..."

More HMHB- 'I could have stuck my head in a bucket full of porridge and moaned about the hospital parking scheme. I would have saved 14 pounds that Id just splashed out on your second album..'

And an HMHB one with a cycling reference:

When I need you
You’re only ever twenty-eight away
With a tailwind
I’m on Shimano Ultegra now, ain’t you heard?

From: Half Man Half Biscuit: Excavating Rita - lyrics

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This one from Curl of the Burl by Mastodon appealed to me recently:

"I KILLED A MAN CAUSE HE KILLED MY GOAT "

I was sayin let me outta here before I was even born...

The only way to feel the noise is when it's good and loud

Turn the page on the day, Walk away.

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

Up the junction - squeeze

Loving the Carter ones ......

I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

NIck Cave, Into My Arms

"Now you may have observed, when you walk into a wall, you get a certain sensation of reality" Incredible String band, the Puppet Song.

'Oh, the snot has caked against my pants'

Glorious.

[i]Not strictly a lyric but....

"Good Morning Mr Tyler...Going Down"[/i]

not a lyric and not the first words in that song either 😉

"Don't ask me why
But I was walking down the streets
Of Fairfax, California
And I saw this flyer hangin'
On a telephone pole, and it said
CAN GOD FILL TEETH!" - Can God fill Teeth by Lard

"God Told Me To Skin You Alive!" - I kill Children by The Dead Kennedys

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you

or

The Pope says to the atheist, in Gods name I do swear
You're searching blindly in the dark for something that ain't there
The atheist says to the Pope there ain't no gettin' 'round it
You too were searching in the dark for nothing...but you found it

or

The object of my affection
Walked off in the other direction

(not an opening line, I know, but still great)

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed
I stuck that lovin' forty-four beneath my head.

Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues