The greatest first line to a song ever?

[jakarta]

Don't know about the greatest but my favourite first 4 lines are from the Mighty Hawkwind in 1977 - Spirit of the Age

I would have liked you to have been deep frozen too, and waiting still as fresh in your flesh for my return to Earth

But your Father refused to sign the Forms to freeze you; Lets see you'd be about sixty now and long dead by the time I returned to Earth

My time held dreams were full of you as you were when I left, still under-age; Your android replica is playing up again, it's no joke, when she comes she moans another's name

That's the Spirit of the Age, that's the Spirit of the Age......... :guitar:

You won't get that on X-Factor

 

[The Modfather]

Sup up your beer and collect your fags,
there's a row going on down near slough

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I was born, under a cross fire hurricane"

And

"Mother told me, yes, she told me I'd meet girls like you."

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

All those whose mind entitles themselves
and whose main entitle is themselves,
shall feel the wrath of my bombast!

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Sie ist ein Modell und sie sieht gut aus

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Caroline laughs and it's raining all day

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

It's cold outside
And the paint's peeling off of my walls

 

[unklbrian]

The Mississippi delta was shining
Like a national guitar



paints a very evocative picture ....

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I don't give a damn, I don't f***ing care, I'm gonna kill my mum and dad and pull out me hair, Fed up with the dole and with the human race, gonna cut my liver out and shove it in your face.

 

[papajaff]

Let me take you to a place where membership's a smiling face

 

[timbha]

I'm in the phone booth it's the one across the hall

Don't start me talking, i could talk all night

You drink your coffee and I sip my tea, and we're sitting here playing so cool, thinking "What will be, will be"

Living on a free food ticket, water in the milk from a hole in the roof where the rain came through

Baby, Baby, Baby..........

 

[Franks Wild Years]

I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do

Nick Cave , Into my arms.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair.
Oh Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere.

 

[algie]

Not the greatest but very powerful nevertheless....

They disembarked in '45
And no one spoke and no one smiled
There were too many spaces in the line

 

[Pevenseagull]

.............................

I always flirt with death, I look ill but I don't care about it - The Only Ones.
...............

Oh my days

 

[Pevenseagull]

"I could be a smack freak, and hate society"

 

[Willy Dangle]

He painted Salford smokey tops

 

[raymondbriggs]

********s, *******s, ****ing ***** and pricks

Ian Dury and the Blockhead. Plaistow Patricia.

Wonder how much of the first line will get past the "swear word" filter?
And the willy words gets in! ! !

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Not strictly the opening gambit, as there is some unintelligible (to me) signing beforehand, but...

Swing low in a dark glass hour, you turn and cower, see it turn to dust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuTVKO0RScI

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

1, 2, 3, 4
John The Baptist knows the score.