Best Opening Line to a Rock Song ...

She packed my bags last night, pre flight.

 

Put me in coach, I'm ready to play ...

 

Great post with the Jim Croce lyrics, VB.

My favorite might be: "Like the pine trees lining the winding road, I've got a name, I've got a name ..."

 

Long distance information get me Memphis, Tennessee....

 

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane.

 

Top of indecipherable division:

Beside yourself if radio's gonna stay

 

Look, mommy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky

 

One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.

 

You keep on talking about you.

 

I mean, this one is downright Shakespearean:

This is Sister Souljah. Public Enemy, Security of the First World, and all allied forces are traveling west to head off a white supremacy scheming to destroy the national celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday. Public Enemy believes that the powers that be in the states of New Hampshire and Arizona have found psychological discomfort in paying tribute to a black man who tried to teach white people the meaning of civilization. Good luck brothers, show 'em what you got.

 

The chills that you spill up my back

 

When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come
With your hands on your head, or on the trigger of your gun?

They heard me singing and they told me to stop

It was back in '32 when times were hard/he had a Colt .45 and a deck of cards/Stagger Lee

I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me

I fell out of heaven to be with you in hell