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Best Opening Line to a Rock Song ...

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Riptide, Feb 20, 2016.

  1. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Or, keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel....
     
  2. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    These are excellent choices.
     
  3. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    That isn't the opening line, is it?
     
  4. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    My favorite Jim Croce opening line(s):

    Oh, Rapid Roy that stock car boy
    He's a-too much to believe.
    You know he always got a extra pack of cigarettes
    Rolled up in his T-shirt sleeve.
     
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  5. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    Well a person can work up a mean mean thirst
    after a hard day of nothin' much at all
     
  6. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    I don't like you, but I love you.

    The best things in life are free
    But you can give them to the birds and bees.

    Well, I never been to Spain
    But I kind of like the music.

    I'm all right
    Nobody worry 'bout me.
    Why you got to give me a fight?
    Why nan't you just let me be?

    The night was clear and the moon was yellow
    And the leaves came tumbling down.

    Mama Pajama rolled out of bed and she ran to the police station.

    I met my old lover on the street last night.
    She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled.

    Uno, dos... One, two, tres, cuatro.

    In 1814 we took a little trip
    Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.

    Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
    But he knew it couldn't last.

    When I find myself in times of trouble
    Mother Mary comes to me
    Speaking words of wisdom
    Let it be.

    Take out the papers and the trash
    Or you don't get no spendin' cash.

    You're a no good heartbreaker
    You're a liar and you're a cheat
    And I don't know why
    I let you do these things to me.

    Call me the breeze
    I keep blowin' down the road.

    Call up Trudy on the telephone
    Send her a letter in the mail.
    Tell her I'm hung up here in Dallas.
    They won't let me out of this jail.

    I walk 47 miles of barbed wire
    I use a cobra snake for a necktie
    I got a brand new house on the roadside
    Made from rattlesnake hide

    Ridin' along in my automobile
    My baby beside me at the wheel.
    I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile.
    My curiosity runnin' wild.
     
  7. Kato

    Kato Well-Known Member

    I am an American aquarium drinker. I assassin down the avenue .
     
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  8. SFIND

    SFIND Well-Known Member

    Another one of my favorite Croce opening lines:

    Gonna tell you a story you won't believe/But I fell in love last Friday evenin'/With a girl I saw on a bar room TV screen
     
  9. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Opening line, folks. Not opening four lines, or opening verse.
     
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  10. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    John Lennon division:

    • I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together
    • I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me ...
    • You know, if you break my heart I'll go, but I'll be back again ...
    • Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream ...
    • Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup ...
     
  11. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I totally blew that one. :D

    Well, beat the drum and hold the phone
    The sun came out today
    We're born again,
    there's new grass on the field
     
  12. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray...

    Get your motor running, head out on the highway

    And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain

    In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking

    This is the end, beautiful friend.
     
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