Favorite Opening Line From A Song

Kate Bush "Saxophone Song"

"You'll find me in a Berlin bar, in a corner brooding"

Old 97's "Victoria"

“This is the story of Victoria Lee/She started off on Percodan and ended up with me."

HOW BOUT GETTING OFF THESE ANTIBIOTICS

"Why's it never light on my lawn?" - Elton John, 'Grey Seal'

not my favorite ever but up there

"Captured effortlessly, that's the way it was."

"did you see her walking, did she come around here, Sir?" - pj harvey, my beautiful leah

'mmhmm' - pj harvey, long snake moan

“You’re everybody’s second home” - Heatmiser, ‘Plainclothes Man’

"All of your friends are cunts/ Your mother is a ballpoint pen thief"

"Well, some people ain't no damn good."

"As I went out one morning, to breathe the air around Tom Paine's"

"Ain't thou watchin my film"

i wrote a letter to a wild flower on a classic nitrogen afternoon

"William Butler Yeats in jeans"

He pauses shaving and tells himself that he is the bomb

they sentenced me ton twenty years of boredom/for trying to change the system from within

Hey kids, let me tell you how I met your Mum

Pushing a hoopty, bumping the Fugees, my life is a scary movie, your life is a male groupie

Well I been watchin' you waltz all night, Diane

Nobody move, there's blood on the floor. And I can't find my heart.

(Earworm this week. Not sure about the rest of the song TBH)

I fell asleep on a rooftop
I woke up halfway down

--Stephen Fearing, "Me and Mr. Blue"

You ain't no punk, you punk

'I've been contemplating suicide,'
Though maybe its the combination with the 2nd line
'But it really doesn't suit my style'

"LET ME TELL YOU 'BOUT THE FUCKIN' BITCH, DEAN-O!!"

Sur le trottoir d'en face une fille riait

"Anyone caught speaking Esperanto was thought crazy or headed for jail..."

Nww

In little sunrise of goblin eyes
I watch the coupling of the flies
Under waving trees and bumble bees
I strain to amputate my knees

The fall

When it happened we walked through all the estates, from Manchester right to Newcastle.
In Darlington, helped a large man on his own chase off some kids
Who were chucking bricks and
Stuff through his flat window.