Greatest Opening Song Lryics

[unctarheel1984]

This is a discussion, not a ranking or a competition. Tastes will vary and there are no wrong submissions as long as you propose the actual correct opening lyrics.

My first submission:

“Well I woke up Sunday morning, with no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt.”
- Kris Kristofferson

 

[ronjon]

In ancient times
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people
The druids
No one knows who they were
Or what they were doing
But their legacy remains hewn
Into the living rock of Stonehenge

 

[unctarheel1984]

"When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom
Let it be."
- Paul McCartney/The Beatles

 

[camelheelfan]

"That's why I f***ed your b***h you fat motherf****r" - Tupac

 

[2forheels]

I'm a flea bit peanut monkey.

Rolling Stones Monkey Man

 

[Mr Winterville]

If it keeps on raining the levee’s gonna break

 

[IslanderHeel]

“Went to a party on a Saturday night. Didn’t get laid. Got in a fight. Uh huh. It ain’t no big thing.” Lita Ford

 

[unctarheel1984]

“Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch; like me!”
— John Newton (1772)

 

[lakelawyerheel]

On a dark desert highway
Cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas
Rising up through the air

 

[lakelawyerheel]

Not actual opening lyrics to the song but always the live show opening lyrics:

You know where you are?
You're in the jungle baby!
Time to dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[lakelawyerheel]

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell? Blue skies from pain?
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell...

 

[lakelawyerheel]

1 more:

Livin' on the road my friend
Was gonna keep you free and clean
And know you wear your skin like iron
And your breath as hard as kerosene

 

[Mr Winterville]

It was raining hard in Frisco
I needed one more fare to make my night
A lady up ahead waved to flag me down
She got in at the light

 

[heelblue82]

The only two things in life
That make it worth livin'
Is guitars to tune good
And firm feelin' women

Waylon Jennings
Luckenbach, Texas

 

[lakelawyerheel]

The only two things in life
That make it worth livin'
Is guitars to tune good
And firm feelin' women

Waylon Jennings
Luckenbach, Texas

2nd best country song ever behind only:

He said I’ll love you til I die
She said you’ll forget in time
As the years went slowly by
She still preyed upon his mind

 

[uncsig]

Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk? I didn't mean to call you that
Lit-My Own Worst Enemy

 

[kik84]

In the day, we sweat it out on the streets
Of a runaway American dream
At night, we ride through mansions of glory
In suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on Highway 9
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line
Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we're young
'Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

--Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run"

 

[Heelfiend]

M.E.T.H.O.D. MAN

 

[TommyAshley]

My life motto….


A little out of place
A little out of tune
Sorta lost in space
Racin' that moon
Climbin' the walls
Of a hurricane
Still overall
I can't complain

 

[2forheels]

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows
Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light
Or just another lost angel, city of night

 

[2forheels]

I've been drivin' all night
My hand's wet on the wheel
There's a voice in my head
That drives my heel
It's my baby callin'
Says: I need you here
And it's a half past four
And I'm shifting gear

 

[2forheels]

I've been run down
I've been lied to
And I don't know why
I let that mean woman make me a fool
She took all my money
Wrecked my new car
Now she's with one of my good time buddies
They're drinkin' in some crosstown bar

 

[jamier2003]

Happy Birthday to you!

 

[jamier2003]

Hark the sound of Tar Heel voices
Ringing clear and True
Singing Carolina's praises
Shouting N.C.U.

 

[lakelawyerheel]

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows
Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light
Or just another lost angel, city of night

Great song...

 

[deandisciple]

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping...

 

[lakelawyerheel]

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping...

Fantastic inclusion. Those opening lyrics are incredible

 

[jamier2003]

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping...

 

[unctarheel1984]

"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."
- Mick Jagger/The Rolling Stones

 

[unctarheel1984]

After watching the football game yesterday I’m going with

“Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery”

 

[Icthyphile]

"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."
- Mick Jagger/The Rolling Stones

Love this song, A comment on the YT clip with Papa from Ghost singing this with the Hellacopters lives in my head. “When I hear Mick sing this it’s like the devil is dropping hints at who he is. When Papa sings it it’s like a list of accomplishments.”

 

[lakelawyerheel]

Love this song, A comment on the YT clip with Papa from Ghost singing this with the Hellacopters lives in my head. “When I hear Mick sing this it’s like the devil is dropping hints at who he is. When Papa sings it it’s like a list of accomplishments.”

Not sure if I should say:

Creepy, yet real f’g good or

Magnificent, yet about as creepy as a song can be

“list of accomplishments” is a perfect description

 

[Icthyphile]

Not sure if I should say:

Creepy, yet real f’g good or

Magnificent, yet about as creepy as a song can be

“list of accomplishments” is a perfect description

Tobias Forge is an amazing performer. Everything about Ghost is super contrived but the dude has made his mark and plays the character very well.

 

[2forheels]

It is Lucifer singing the song. As a Stones fan since they arrived in the US in 1964 and I got to see them then and every year since, all the Stones songs have some great opening lyrics. Talk abut creepy, listen to the live version of Midnight Rambler on the "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out" LP. Wear head phones so you can hear what some in the crowd are yelling. And here's another great Stones song.

Yeah, you got satin shoes
Yeah, you got plastic boots
Y'all got cocaine eyes
Yeah, you got speed freak jive, now
Can't you hear me knockin'
On your window?
Can't you hear me knockin'
On your door?
Can't you hear me knockin'
Down your dirty street?
Yeah

 

[2forheels]

And again from The Doors.

Oh, keep your eyes on the road, your hand upon the wheel
Keep your eyes on the road, your hand upon the wheel
Yeah, we're goin' to the Roadhouse, gonna have a real, a good time
Yeah, the back of the Roadhouse they got some bungalows
Yeah, the back of the Roadhouse they got some bungalows
And that's for the people who like to go down slow

 

[2forheels]

And one of the greatest rock songs every from the Byrds. Really takes me back in time.

Eight miles high, and when you touch down
You'll find that it's stranger than known
Signs in the street, that say where you're going
Are somewhere just being their own

 

[unctarheel1984]

The screen door slams
Mary's dress sways
Like a vision, she dances across the porch as the radio plays.
— Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road”

 

[GeeWhy]

1, 2, 3... Turn it up.

 

[lakelawyerheel]

1, 2, 3... Turn it up.

LOL....I read your post and my head immediately kicked in with the guitar lick as I was reading it

 

[lakelawyerheel]

Just want to say....this is a great thread