Best opening line in a song

[Badonde]

Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street

 

[speckyget]

Punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate...

 

[johnsmithsno2]

I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I'm 22 now but I won't be for long.

From Billy Bragg, New England. Love it. Was shocked a few years later to discover he'd "borrowed" it from a Paul Simon song.

Don't know if it was an homage or that he wasn't famous at the time and thought nobody would notice.

 

[HarryVegas]

Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the news

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

I've been going out with a girl, her name is Julie.

 

[HarryVegas]

It's at times such as this she'd be tempted to spit if she wasn't so ladylike

 

[BoroBosco]

Now that your picture's in the paper being rhythmically admired

 

[Ian Bairds Ears]

Well that heads turn...make my back burn......and the heads that tuuuuurn... make my back make my back burn.....

 

[Harry Basset]

They're selling postcards of the hanging.

 

[outoftown]

Always had an affinity for
I've been working on a cocktail called ' grounds for divorce '

 

[skazza]

Long afloat, on shipless oceans, I did all my best to smile.

 

[El Guapo]

Slave to the system and there’s no way out

 

[rkangel]

Peeling the skin back from my eyes
I felt surprised

Matt Johnson, The The

 

[Scrote]

It was a Wednesday night and the open mic had just begun

 

[sweet_left_foot]

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[1finny]

Asreholes barstewards fookin chunts and pricks

Ian Dury

 

[Brian Marwood]

Sometimes I feel like I don't know
Sometimes I feel like checkin' out

 

[Legz]

My breath smells of a 1000 fags and when I'm drunk I dance like me dad

 

[LordStockton]

Picture yourself in a boat on a river .... with tangerine trees and marmalade skies ?

 

[swordtrombonefish]

"Please allow me to introduce myself / I'm a man of wealth and taste / I've been around for a long, long year / Stole many a man's soul and faith."