Best opening lyrics to a song

[Beach Hut]

September ’77
Port Elizabeth, weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619.

Biko, Peter Gabriel - a very very powerful and truthful track

 

[The Large One]

"I was 21 years when I worte this song I'm 22 now but I wont be for long,

That line was originally written by Paul Simon. Bragg offered him the copyright fee, but Simon politely declined, stating that A New England was so good, he would be embarrassed to accept.


'So four years passed us by like a four minute song, did you think we were wrong
In my nightmare I found a valley in which to be strong...'
Never Give In by Attacco Decente

'Received a letter just the other day
Don't seem to want to know you no more...'
Embarrassment by Madness.

Best Closing Line: 'f***ing Ada' repeat ad infinitum Ian Dury & The Blockheads.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Or...



A great philosopher once wrote
Naughty, naughty, very naughty
Ha ha ha ha ha

 

[Bono]

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morales that we worship
Will be gone

Thanks Pete.

 

[NMH]

Oh I could hide 'neath the wings of the bluebird as she sings,
the six-o-clock alarm would never ring.
But it rings, and I rise wipe the sleep out of my eyes.
The shaving razor's cold and it stings......
Monkees - Daydream Believer (written by Neil Diamond)



I'm gonna rent myself a house in the shade of a freeway
pack my lunch in the morning, and go to work each day.
And when the evening rolls around, I'll go on home and lay my body down.
And when the morning light comes streaming in, I'll get up and do it again, amen.
Jackson Browne - The Pretender


I am the son, I am the heir.........to nothing in particular
Smiths - How Soon Is Now

 

[Icy Gull]

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died


Leonard Cohen

 

[Smithers-Jones]

Good evening. I'm from Essex, in case you couldn't tell.
My given name is Dicky, and I come from Bilariccy...
And I'm doin' very well!

Oh a love affair with Nina,
In the back of my Cortina,
A seasoned-up hyeina,
Could not 'ave been more obscener

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Punctured bicycle on a hilltop, desolate
will nature make a man of you yet?

 

[Wienergull]

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died


Leonard Cohen

More Leonard:

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
but now it's come to distances and both of us must try,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

 

[Smithers-Jones]

Supp up your beer and collect your fags,
There's a row goin on down in Slough

 

[Smithers-Jones]

Time flies by when you're the driver of a train,
Speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine.

Every Saturday I get the Chigley skins,
and they always put my windows in because the home side wins.

Under bridges, over bridges, to our destination,
Careful with that spliff Eugene, it causes condensation



(Half man, Half biscuit, from the album "Back in the DHSS"

 

[REDLAND]

Well, I got more bounce to the fuckin' bump
And then you want to know
Why it's cause I'm motherfuckin' truckin'
I'm in the pocket just like Grady Tate
I got supplies of beats so you don't have to wait
'Cause I'm the master blaster
Drinking up the shasta

Professor Booty, Beasties

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Why should, you leave your home, when the TV's on?

The Ordinary Boys

 

[Dover]

All I see is the truth now,
that's all I need to know.
That I'll never turn my back on you,
and leave you out there on your own.

Texas. Prayer For You.

Great angry track.

 

[REDLAND]

People How You Doing There's A New Day Dawning
For The Earth Mother It's A Brand New Morning
For Such A Long While There's Been Such A Longing
But Now The Sun Is Shining Let's Roll Back The Awning

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Adventure seeker ...
on an empty street,
just an alley creeper,
light on his feet,
a young fighter screaming,
with no time for doubt,
gotta find me an answer,
can't see a way out ...

ain't much i'd ask you,
I heard him say,
gotta find me a future,
get outta my way ...

I want it all ... etc...

Queen - I want it all

 

[Marc]

Drowning in this toilet of shit they call life,
Work like hell at Taco Bell for $4.25 an hour,
No one gives a squirt of piss if you f***ing die,
So seize the day by the balls, and squeeze until it's on it's knees

The Vandals - And Now We Dance

 

[REDLAND]

Johnny Ryall is the bum on my stoop
I gave him fifty cents to buy some soup
He knows the time with the fresh Gucci watch
He's even more over than the mayor Ed Koch
Washing windows on the Bowery at a quarter to four
'Cause he ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
Living on borrowed time and borrowed money
Sleepin' on the street there ain't a damn thing funny
Hand me down food and hand me down clothes
A rockabilly past of which nobody knows
Makes his home all over the place
He goes to sleep by falling down on his face
Sometimes known as the leader of the homeless
Sometimes drunk and he's always phoneless
Sleepin' on the street in a cardboard box
He's better off drinkin' than smokin' the rocks
Johnny Ryall

SMOOOOOOTH..

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky
He had an ice pick which made his ears burn

 

[REDLAND]

All we really are is Squirrels,
We're being hunted we are Squirrels,
We are appealing we are Squirrels,