My Favorite Song Opening Lines
Submitted by AJDaGreat on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 05:19
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- Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine
- Patti Smith - Gloria
- You've got all that is really needed/To save a dying world from its funklessness
- Parliament - Unfunky UFO
- My love, she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence
- Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero/No Limit
- My smile is stuck/I won't go back to your Frownland
- Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Frownland
- I'm singing this note 'cause it fits in well with the chords I'm playing
- The Who - Gettin' in Tune
- Southtown girls won't blow you away/But you know that they'll stay
- The Hold Steady - Southtown Girls
- Who's that woman on your arm all dressed up to do you harm?/And I'm hip to what she'll do, give her just about a month or two
- The Rolling Stones - Let It Loose
- This is the day of the expanding man
- Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
- Smack, crack, bushwhacked/Tie another one to the racks, baby
- REM - Drive
- They seek him here, they seek him there/His clothes are loud, but never square
- The Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion
- In the morning, we arise and start the day the same old way
- Love - The Daily Planet
- I'm in love with the world though the eyes of a girl/Who's still around the morning after
- Elliott Smith - Say Yes
- I would do anything to be anywhere else/As it is, as you know, I don't know which way to go
- Apples in Stereo - The Shiney Sea
- I don't believe in an interventionist God/But I know, darling, that you do
- Nick Cave - Into My Arms
- Shyness is nice, and shyness can stop you/From doing everything in life you'd like to
- The Smiths - Ask
- I'm so happy 'cause today I found my friends/They're in my head
- Nirvana - Lithium
- Well, ya play that Tarantella, all the hounds they start to roar/And the boys all go to hell, then the Cubans hit the floor
- Tom Waits - Tango Till They're Sore
- When they kick at your front door how you gonna come?/With your hands on your head or on the trigger of your gun?
- The Clash - The Guns of Brixton
- The price of your soul is less than the cab fare that gets you home before the living end
- American Music Club - The Dead Part of You
- I've been talking to the wall and it's been answering me/Oh darling how I miss you/I'm just a shadow of my former selfishness/I crave the silhouette of your kiss
- Elvis Costello - Human Hands
- Shattered dreams, worthless years/Here am I encased inside a hollow shell/Life began, then was done/Now I stare into a cold and empty well
- Stevie Wonder - I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)
- I slit my wrists with my Swingline/Copied myself 500 times/I pierced my ears with a 3-hole punch/Ate twelve dozen donuts for lunch
- The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Gonna Run
- H-A-T-E, is that how you spell "love" in your dictionary?/K-I-C-K, pronounced as "kind"/F-U-C-K, is that how you spell "friend" in your dictionary?/Black on black, a guidebook for the blind?
- XTC - Your Dictionary
- When you get out of the hospital, let me back into your life/I can't stand what you do, I'm in love with your eyes
- The Modern Lovers - Hospital
- While digesting Readers' Digest in the back of a dirty bookstore/A plastic flag with gum on the back fell out on the floor
- John Prine - Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
- I saw the best of my generation playing pinball/Make-up on, all caked up, looking like some kind of china doll
- Dan Bern - Wasteland
- I don't want somebody to love me/Just give me sex whenever I want it
- Rufus Wainwright - Instant Pleasure
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Thanks to Menindrag for the inspiration.