Best Opening Lyrics
 

In my opinion this is a really crappy list (with a few good ones) and I think we can do way better!

Best Opening Lyrics: No. 25 - Spinner.com - Free MP3s, Interviews, Music News, Live Performances, Songs and Videos

So what are some of y'all favorites

I like...

"Hello Darkness my Old Friend" Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence

"As I walk through, this wicked world, Searching for light in the darkness of insanity." Elvis Costello's Peace, Love and Understanding

"In the time of chimpanzees I was a Monkey" Beck's Loser

"Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste" The Rolling Stones Sympathy for the Devil

"My Name it is nothing my age it means less" Bob Dylan's With God on Our Side

"In the Days of my Youth I was told what it means to be a Man" Led Zeppelin's Good Times Bad Times

"There's Something Happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear" Buffalo Springfield's For What it's Worth

"Pretty Women Walking with Gorillas Down My Street" Joe Jackson's "Is she really going out with him"

"Relax and Take Notes" Biggie Small's Dead Wrong

"I knew a Girl, her Name was Truth, She was a horrible Liar" Ben Harper's Diamonds on the Inside

"Well I thought about the Army, Dad said Son your fucking High" Ben Fold's Army

"Drove downtown in the rain, 9:30 on a Tuesday Night" The Barenaked Ladie's Brian Wilson

I'm Sure there are more too, what do you guys and gals like?

Kick out the jams, motherfuckers



Anyway i'll limit myself to one per band otherwise i'd be repeating the same artists over and over. Off the top of my head..

"I'd say you make a perfect angel in the snow."
Elliott Smith "Angel in the Snow"

"Over the moor, take me to the moor, dig a shallow grave and I'll lay me down"
The Smiths "Suffer Little Children"

"Eating snow flakes with plastic forks and a paper plate of course."
Modest Mouse "Trailer Trash"

"Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand?"
Bright Eyes "An Attempt to Tip the Scales"

"What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all around the sun."
Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"

"Remember when our so-called friend would not call out to you while tumbling loosely out a hole punched through your home?"
Okkervil River "Song For Our So-Called Friend"

"Teignmouth on the night train from the city to the south I saw spirits."
Patrick Wolf "Teignmouth"

"Hey coffee eyes you got me coughing up my cookie heart."
Cap'n Jazz "Little League"

They Found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed, a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head - Nick Cave

I'll think of more later.

"Summer came and I lost my shoes" - Portugal. The Man - Telling Tellers Tell
"Duh duh duh duh duhhh, duhduhduhduh duh duh duuuuuh duuuuh duh duh, duh duh duh, you bitch ass nigga, as high as wu tang get" - Wu Tang - As High as Wu Tang get.

Bright Eyes - At The Bottom of Everything

So there was this woman and
she was on an airplane and
she's flying to meet her fiancé
sailing high above the largest ocean
on planet earth and she was seated
next to this man who you know
she had tried to start conversation with
but really the only thing
she heard him say was to order his bloody mary
and she's sitting there and she's reading
this really arduous magazine article about this
third world country that she couldn't
even pronounce the name of and
she's feeling very bored and very despondent
and then suddenly there's this huge mechanical failure and one of the engines gave out
and they started just falling thirty thousand feet
and the pilots on the microphone and he's saying,
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Oh My God, I'm Sorry"
and apologizing and she looks at the man and she says,
"Where are we going?" and he looks at her and he says,
"We're going to a party, it's a birthday party.
It's your birthday party, happy birthday darling.
We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much."

That's a pretty long opening line!

It really is the opening for the song..you'd have to hear it to understand.

I'm not doubting, just sayin'.

It's long!

Edit: I think I've seen the clip.

"Everyone in high school will worship the ****ing ground I walk on"
Prom by MSI

"It's an elusive thing, this love of which we sing. What are we doing?"
Such a Lovely Thing by DeVotchKa

"Good bye to sleep. I think this staying up is exactly what I need. We'll take apart your head. Take apart the counting and the flock it has bred."
Degausser by Brand New

I might have a few more later.

"So long everything!" he shouted. Then he ran next door to Margot's house. "I'm moving" he said. "Where?" asked Margot. "Two weeks away," he said. "Mitchell, where is that?" asked Margot. "It's everywhere I will be after I walk for two weeks," said Mitchell, "I have lived in the same place for a long time, it is time for me to go someplace else." "No," said Margot, "You have only lived next door for fifty years." "Sixty," said Mitchell, "Fifty, sixty. What's the difference?" said Margot, "I want you to stay next door forever." "I can't," said Mitchell, " I do not want to go wake up in the same old bed and eat breakfast in the same old kitchen. Every room in my house is the same old room, because I have lived there too long."

Well I could sleep forever, but it's of her I dream
If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything. - Dandy Warhols

You get the car, I'll get the night off. You'll get the chance to take the world apart and figure out how it works.
Car - Built To Spill

I’m floating in a black balloon
I must make it through this afternoon
A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free (7"/alt. version) - Elliott Smith

Future butterfly going to spend the day higher than high
You'll be a beautiful confusion
Independence Day - Elliott Smith

What else in this room reminds me of you?
The Ghost Of What Should Have Been - Owen

Jen is bringing the drugs.
She wants to get real f*ucked up.
Jen Is Bringin' The Drugs- Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

hey,
Been trying to meet you.
hey,
Must be a devil between us..
Or whores in my head.
Hey - Pixies

I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl who's still around the morning after.

I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain,
But its all right now, in fact, its a gas!

That made the spinner.com list as well.

I prefer Sympathy for the Devil's opening line when it comes to the Stones.

Still cornfields resting you in the sun
I've never had this much fun
I've never had my own gun
Bring in the choir, give the kids a Goddamn son

Look us in the centre of our eyes
And tell me when I'm going to die -Be Your Own Pet Thresher's Flail

Tin soldiers and nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in ohio. -Neil Young Ohio

If the sun refused to shine
I don't mind, I don't mind
If the mountains ah, fell in the sea
Let it be, it ain't me. -Jimi Hendrix If 6 Was 9

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying. -The Beatles I Am The Walrus

My Baby Got Run Over (Wa Wa oooo)
By A Stemroller
My Baby Got Run Over (Wa Wa oooo)
By A Steamroller -The Adicts Steamroller

Right about now, nwa court is in full effect.
Judge dre presiding in the case of nwa versus the police department.
Prosecuting attourneys are mc ren, ice cube, and eazy muthaf***in e.
Order, order, order. ice cube, take the muthaf***in stand.
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth
And nothin but the truth so help your black ass?

Why don't you tell everybody what the f*** you gotta say?

f*** tha police
Comin straight from the underground
Young nigga got it bad cuz I'm brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority -N.W.A. **** The Police

Here's a little somethin' bout a nigga like me
Never shoulda been let out the penititary
Ice cube would like ta say
That I'm a crazy mutha f***a from around the way
Since I was a youth, I smoked weed out
Now I'm the mutha f***a that ya read about
Takin' a life or two
That's what the hell I do, you don't like how I'm livin
Well f*** you! -N.W.A. Gangsta Gangsta

Bonfires burning bright
Pumpkin faces in the night
I remember halloween

Dead cats hanging from poles
Little dead are out in droves
I remember halloween -The Misfits Halloween


I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president

Carter power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school -Dead Kennedys California Uber Alleys

But does it start with the snapped line... "Watch It!"...No... I think not.



Right ! now ! ha ha ha ha ha

^ best lyric intro ever.

"Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine..."

"As immaturity may be a result of certain chemical imbalances, so may the friggin' Skatenigs, flip the trigger on a sucker, squealing studs of pudness.. They sing stuck in a rut in pig pod land.. They share rigs with grave diggers.. Worry about death when it's done come and gone.. You buy their records and they'll piss on your mama's best collectibles.. They beat their rancid meat and expect you to pay the check.. They ream the beef of bad, backstage girls redundant in new wave black: up the butt, snuck, stuck, mucked up, sucked.. I'd eat baboon bile before I'd bite on their juvenile, penile pole projections they casually, smashingly refer to as 'my dick'.. Infected, rejected, afflicted, maledictive, boa constrictive: if immaturity is indeed a result of certain chemical imbalances, then these guys are on a permanent Amoco overload.. Crawling through maggot breath, yeehaa, boys with latex toys.. If buttholes were peepshows then the 'Nigs are the window to the soul of this fuckin' ridiculous world.. Anality's got nothing on these boys except a signed royalty check, a forged signature, the toilet swiped, the mega-acid smile, the glitch in the universal way, yeah, a real boss abortion to brag about at your next bar-be-que.."

The Skatenigs - Chemical Imbalance

You Suffer..But Why?-Napalm Death. Actually that's the whole song approx 3 secs. Still good though.

There's a lady who knows all that glitters is gold.

^^^
Never fúcking heard of it.

:stupid:

It's a lady who knows not thinks.... S.O.H needed

:mad:

"lord please don't forsake me, in my mercedes benz" Beck, Strange Appiration

Beck could fill the whole list really.

Great Lyrics!

Oh lord won't you buy me a mercedes benz - Janis

I think the difference there is that Beck wants his cake and to eat it as well. Janis is just poking fun at the ridiculousness of asking god for things he says you don't need.

I want to ask god for a cake I don't need and then eat it in front of him.


Ridiculous.









Sorry, I'm not quite sure what that means.

I really think I better get a hold of myself don't wanna let the night get ahead of myself whisperin' her love through a smoke ring smile she doesn't know what happens when she's around.

Arseh0les bastards fu<king cvnts and pr!cks - Ian Dury - Plaistow Patricia

Dead as dead can be my doctor tells me but i just cant believe him Im very optimistic- A perfect Circle

Alrighty, then ... picture this if you will.
10 to 2 AM, X, Yogi DMT, and a box of Krispy Kremes,
in my "need to know" pose, just outside of Area 51
Contemplating the whole "chosen people" thingy
when a flaming stealth banana split the sky
like one would hope but never really expect
to see in a place like this.
Cutting right angle donuts on a dime
and stopping right at my Birkenstocks,
and me yelping...Holy ****ing ****! ------****ing Maynard from TOOL :rofl:

"I'm hot just like an oveeeeen
and I need some loveeee'n"

haha that one makes me laugh
anyways, i know i sound like a broken record probably but pretty much any brand new song has awesome openings

"I am heaven sent, don't you dare forget"-OK I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't

"If it makes you less sad, I will die by your hand, hope you find out what you want, already know what I am"-The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot

"I've got a 20 dollar bill that says no one's ever seen you without makeup"-Mix Tape

& then here's a bunch of random ones

"I see nothing in your eyes & the more I see the less I like"-Breath by Breaking Benjamin

"Five AM on the bathroom floor from the night before do you find me dreadful?"-The Killing Lights by AFI

"Maybe we, why don't we, sit right here for half an hour, we'll speak of what, a waste I am & how we missed your beat again"-Writings on the Walls by Underoath

"Need more friends with wings, all the angels I know put concrete in my veins"-Nothing to Lose by Billy Talent

im sure theres more, im just too lazy to think of them

"Ignorance is bliss no wise woman's failed to mention
and surely some koan suggests 'neglect leads to perfection'
but the more I turn my face from the crowd
the more I feel my backs' increasingly compelled
for the sake of escape, to turn a knife on itself,
a knife of relief, from all the petty insight
and finally I'll sleep, I'll sleep through the night."

Circle Takes the Square - "Non-Objective Portrait of Karma"


As well as:

"Nothing's so lucid as the promise of dreams, but these pills we found just make me sleep.
There's nothing quite so pure as the written word my dear, so lets have ourselves a little poem."

Circle Takes the Square - "Crowquill"

"teenage angst has paid off well"- Nirvana- Serve The Servents

Close my eyes
Pull my heart strings
Pour my tears from your hands
connections are never easy,
You said empty words
Empty soul
I believe that we are afraid of one another
And I, I believe that you have died within me

Venus and Bacchus by Saetia

you win.

"Driving that Train High on Cocaine"

The Grateful Dead - Casey Jones

Watch your speed People!