Favorite Opening Line From A Song

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I've always been partial to "What's with these homies dissin' my girl/Why do they gotta front?"

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 2 November 2002 03:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Wish everybody would leave me alone..."
-Roxy Music, "Street Life"

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 2 November 2002 04:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Y'all act like you've never seen a white person before." Eminem "The Real Slim Shady".
"Basically, I'm the worst nightmare you ever had." Pharoahe Monch "Fuck You".

― Nick H, Saturday, 2 November 2002 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

"In my dreams I'm dying all the time" - "Porcelain" by Moby

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nice to see Devoto well represented here. I think I'll add to his laurels with:

'Your clean-living, clear-eyed, clever, level-headed brother
Says he'll put all the screws upon your newest lover'

(Magazine, 'Philadelphia')

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

'you give me my number i call you up

you acting like your pussy's on interrupt'
(ODB - 'Got ya money)

'When i say bust that assss

you say bust that ass!

we gonna bust that ass! (we gonna bust that ass!)'
(Tha Onyx - 'Bust That Ass')

― s magnet, Saturday, 2 November 2002 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

"LET ME TELL YOU 'BOUT THE FUCKIN' BITCH DEAN-O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Ween - "Common Bitch"

NOTE: Thanks to Rich Bunnell for inspiration.

― Evan, Saturday, 2 November 2002 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

four months pass...

okay not *the favourite*, but "my wife's tired of fucking me" from nas's otherwise overy maudlin "drunk by myself" is quite affecting.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

"They got AIDS infectin the globe/laser weapons and clones..."

(at least that's how I think it goes)

Non-Phixion's "Futurama"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kinky Afro so OTM I must weep now

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Pick a card, any card...... WRONG!"

-Jacket Hangs, Blue Aeroplanes

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

hee hee overy maudline = overly maudlin

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

"from the goddamn first thing i do in the morning to the goddamn last thing i do at night..."

― your null fame (yournullfame), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Early one morning while makin' the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down

you are hardcore
you make me hard

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"i was raised like a muslim" - think i've seen this before on the gang starr s/d thread... and of course

"white man came / across the sea"...

― kieron, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Total cliche, but "It doesn't matter if we all die".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Instead of all-time faves, here's a recent entry:

"Fire in the disco / fire in the Taco Bell" is a line I've never heard without smiling. If you ask me in six months, I might be over it, but for now, it's the Electric Six all the way.

― Erick H (Erick H), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

"may i make my fond excuses/ for the lateness of the hour"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Met Jesus up on a hill
He confessed I was dressed to kill

Echo & the Bunnymen, King of Kings

― Tijn, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

My recent entry (and it's the opening line of the album, to boot):

"I was born as a sacrifice
To build a black man's hell
and a white man's paradise"
--Gregory Isaacs, "Sacrifice"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"how could one ever / think / anything's permanent..."

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

FUUCCKYOOOUU!! You call this a Hamburger- Killdozer -Hamburger Martyr

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

You are 18 year old girl
Who live in small city of Japan

― Alexis (Alexis), Thursday, 27 March 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Your butt is mine." -- Michael Jackson, "Bad"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 March 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

For pure melodrama, Dolly Parton singing "In this mental institution" at the start of "Daddy come get me".

For filth, "Darling come here, fuck me up the rear" by the Lords of Acid.

All time fave:
"Finished with my woman cos she couldn't help me with my mind" from "Paranoid".

― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 27 March 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

never seen you looking so fine my funky one~pretzel logic

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I am a patient boy. IwaitIwaitIwaitIwaitIwait.'

Sorry if that's a retread.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Josie's on a vacation far away...

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I feel so extraordinary..." - New Order 'True Faith'
"Whose sticky hands are these?" - Alison Moyet 'This House'

― russ t, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

"This world is big and wild and half insane!"
-Kinks "Animal Farm"

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

"Something about the way you taste makes me want to clear my throat"

- Devo "Gut Feeling"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

"I know you want to leave me, but I refuse to let you go."

-"Ain't Too Proud To Beg," Temptations

It's not as much the line itself as the way it's sung. Honestly, if hearing it doesn't get you jazzed you need to check your pulse.

― musically (musically), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

no sufjan, no credibility.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

"Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack/I went out for a ride and I never went back."

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 17 December 2005 00:29 (eighteen years ago) link

"Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir, so that every mouth can be fed." (Desmond Dekker, "Israelites")

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 17 December 2005 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link

"While you were lost in France we were stranded in the British Isles"

― moriarty (moriarty), Saturday, 17 December 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"Destroy your safe and happy life before it is too late."

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"in 1984 i was hospitalized for approaching perfection."

― rajeev (rajeev), Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Baby I've been breaking glass in your room again...listen

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

my current favorite for the current 10 minute interval is the opening verse of "Supermodel" by Juliana Hatfield
"The highest paid peice of ass/
you know its not gonna last/
'cuz magazines end up in the trash..."

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link

"SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK! — makes me feel this way..."

"As I look out over this beautiful land, I can't help but realize that I am alone."

"Our band could be your life — real names be proof."

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

"Five names that I can hardly stand to hear/
including yours and mine and one more chimp who isn't here"

― pisces, Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link

most of my fantasies are of
making someone else come

― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link

"You only got one finger left, and it's pointin' at the door"

― Just got offed, Thursday, 8 November 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link

"You only got one finger left, and it's pointin' at the door"

-- Just got offed, Thursday, 8 November 2007

haha what's that from?!

― pisces, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Beck, "Lord Only Knows". Slate him all you like, the guy had prodigious talent.

― Just got offed, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link

(One can argue that the opening line of that song is actually "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHHH", which works almost as well.)

― Just got offed, Thursday, 8 November 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link

"ANTIQUES!" (Prefab Sprout)

― everything, Thursday, 8 November 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late

(Mekons)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 8 November 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link

This is a simulation of a song, are you impressed or what?

(more Mekons!)

― dad a, Thursday, 8 November 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link

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