What's the best opening lyrics to a song?

[DrPepper12]

My contribution:

"Woke up in a Soho doorway

A policeman knew my name

He said, "You can go sleep at home tonight

If you can get up and walk away"

I staggered back to the underground

And the breeze blew back my hair

I remember throwin' punches around

And preachin' from my chair"

Or

"Wake up late, honey put on your clothes

And take your credit card to the liquor store

Well that's one for you and two for me by tonight

I'll be loaded like a freight train

Flyin' like an aeroplane

Feelin' like a space brain

One more time tonight"

[petitedollbabee]

I also love the opening to “Who Are You”, it’s a great song.

[MemeSupreme]

welcome to the black parade easily

[DrPepper12]

Excellent 👌🏻 choice!!! 🖤🖤🖤 MCR!!

[AI Opinion]

Both contributions have iconic lyrics that set the tone for the songs beautifully! Another memorable opening line is from Bob Dylan's *"Like a Rolling Stone"*: "Once upon a time you dressed so fine, you threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?" These words paint vivid images and immediately transport the listener into the world of the song. 🎶

[msmissydc]

The intro from greatest show on earth by nighwish does it for me;

[msmissydc]

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries
We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet
Sparkling with color, bountiful with life
Within decades we must close our eyes again
Isn't it a noble
An enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun
To work on understanding the universe
And how we have come to wake up in it?

[Nikki1989]

I am the world that hides
The universal secret of all time
Destruction of the empty spaces
Is my one and only crime

I've lived a thousand times
I found out what it means to be believed
The thoughts and images
The unborn child that never was conceived

When little worlds collide
I'm trapped inside my embryonic cell
And flashing memories
Are cast into the never ending well

The name that scorns the face
The child that never sees the cause of man
The deathly darkness that
Belies the fate of those who never ran

https://www.youtube.com/embed/VcLRrG0W9hE

[Tarifa]

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain (demo version)

Slipped into the fountains of my emptiness
I let teardrops fall, I let them go
Stepped into the canyons of my loneliness
And I went about as far as I could go

Even as I searched for you, I knew
Even if I found you, you'd be so cold

(...)

I won't watch you go, I won't even try
There you go down the road
But don't look to me to say goodbye

[exitseven]

"Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone.

Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you.

I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song.

I just can't remember who to send it to."

James Taylor

[LiamJHayden]

"We have the chance to turn the pages over
We can write what we want to write
We gotta make ends meet before we get much older"

From John Farnham's "You're the Voice" I really like Jorn's version

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zdTJptlnyiA

[AviatorTom]

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in

Piano Man, Billy Joel

[DrPepper12]

I'm a NYer! 🥱😴

[dustybiker2]

Hotel California by the Eagles comes to mind first. But there are endless great starts.

"I wrote this for my dog." live Landslide recording shared too. Love me some Fleetwood Mac

[dustybiker2]

Wait.. was that Heavenly day Patty Griffin... I'll have to look that up in my music now

[dustybiker2]

Yup
I was wrong
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8cdnF3NUSCY

[AngryCarl2]

That's an impossible question to answer but I will answer it anyway.

"I think of mornings we might spend if I came home to find you there

both talking freely of ourselves or sleeping
through the break of day."

Warning - Echoes

[Beckybooboo]

"She's an empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay"

[FunkyMonkee]

"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?"

[AngryCarl2]

"Fast and bulbous, also tapered."

[FunkyMonkee]

@AngryCarl2 That's right!

[FunkyMonkee]

That's right, The Maskara Snake! Fast and bulbous!!
Bulbous also tapered!
Yeah, but, you gotta wait until I say, "Also, a tin teardrop."

[llorando]

"A candy-colored clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
Go to sleep, everything is alright"