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Best Opening Line of a Song.

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Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby The Butler » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:45 pm

For me it has to be Jake Thackray - On Again, On Again with "I love a good bum on a woman, it makes my day".

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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby Miss Fugliness » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:48 pm

This ain't a song for the brokenhearted...
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby The Butler » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:51 pm

^ What do you mean?
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby Miss Fugliness » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:59 pm

GayC: I went home with the waitress...The way I always do.

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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby The Butler » Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:07 pm

I haven't got a clue what is going on here.
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby anter » Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:36 pm

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thethoma ... urmind.htm
"Round, like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel."

Which version is best
Dusty's
Petula's
or Noel Harrison
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby Will Shatter » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:10 am

^ No contest for me. I adore this woman. What a gem she was, with the voice of an angel. It breaks my heart just to think of her. No one did heartache and yearning better.

The incomparable Dusty Springfield...

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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby The Butler » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:16 am

The question was - what is the "best opening line of a song?". Beautiful woman though.
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby Will Shatter » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:19 am

Here ya go then...

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby anter » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:30 am

Dusty singing....
The look of love
is in your eyes
The look your heart cant disguise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6KhuI_4 ... re=related
.... Bacharach agreed.
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby Miss Fugliness » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:15 am

I want you to know, that I'm happy for you
I wish nothing but the best for you both
An older version of me
Is she perverted like me
Would she go down on you in a theatre
Does she speak eloquently
And would she have your baby
I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby Miss Fugliness » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:30 am

I'm broke but I'm happy
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful baby
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine
'cause I've got one hand in my pocket
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby victorinchina » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:32 am

There's a few...

"The young man stands on the edge of his porch"

"Affirmative may be justified, take from one give to another"

"Mine tarme skriger i munde på folk der snakker ondt om rakkerpak som mig"

"Follow me into the desert as thirsty as you are"

"Someone falls to pieces, sleeping all alone"
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby rickettyrabbit » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:56 am

On Shanghai Expat there can be only ONE answer:

"Saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand"

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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby anter » Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:43 am

^hahaha
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby Carrot and Stick » Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:02 am

"I got high last night on LSD..."

From the song "Blind Man's Penis" by John Trubee
great opening line of a song that defined a genre...
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby ThomasCaron » Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:10 am

Will Shatter wrote:Here ya go then...

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.


Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
"Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos." - Henry Miller
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby F.Laura » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:11 pm

You say you want diamonds in a ring of gold
You say you want your story to remain untold
But all the promises we made
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
(U2)
baby if you strip, you could get a tip
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby NorthernLights » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:21 pm

I'll be coming home just to be alone...
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby Gay_Chevara » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:47 pm

The Four Tops - Reach Out, I'll Be There.

I'm listening to it now.

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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby florentina » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:12 pm

Joni Mitchell:

Just before our love got lost you said
I am as constant as a northern star
And I said, constantly in the darkness
Where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby victorinchina » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:31 pm

Another favourite from our house...

Mester Jakob, Mester Jakob, hvor er du? Hvor er du?
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby ThomasCaron » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:42 pm

florentina wrote:Joni Mitchell:

Just before our love got lost you said
I am as constant as a northern star
And I said, constantly in the darkness
Where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar


Can't go wrong with Joni - especially when she's quoting Shakespeare. ("Julius Caesar," Act 3, Scene 1.)
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby NorthernLights » Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:28 pm

I'd rather be punched in the face
Be sprayed with some mace
Than be head over heals
I'd rather be hit by a truck
Then be totally ****
I know you know how it feels
I'd rather be buried alive
Than be living a lie with somebody like you
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby CityOfEvil » Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:33 pm

"Well, I'd rather cut you than the wedding cake, and your bloody guts on my rented tux, and I do, I do, I do wanna kill you, til death do us part, I'll tear us apart"
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby NorthernLights » Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:47 pm

CityOfEvil wrote:"Well, I'd rather cut you than the wedding cake, and your bloody guts on my rented tux, and I do, I do, I do wanna kill you, til death do us part, I'll tear us apart"


Made me think of:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTU4MjE5MjI0.html

not exactly in the same league, but hell it makes me giggle when I'm **** off
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby florentina » Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:13 pm

ThomasCaron wrote:
florentina wrote:Joni Mitchell:

Just before our love got lost you said
I am as constant as a northern star
And I said, constantly in the darkness
Where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar


Can't go wrong with Joni - especially when she's quoting Shakespeare. ("Julius Caesar," Act 3, Scene 1.)


Not sure if you're a Joni or Shakespeare fan, I'm a little bit of both. :) At the risk of sounding like a nerd, the reference to Caesar's "northern star" speech before his fall succinctly gives a clue to what the spat was about and makes me appreciate Joni's retort even more.
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby anter » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:55 pm

I dont usually like country songs but this, about freedom in relationship. I like that...
won two grammy awards in 1968

It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby anter » Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:10 pm

..and 1969 a good year for sexy cowboy thongs ....

Everybody's talking at me.
I don't hear a word they're saying,
Only the echoes of my mind.
People stopping staring,
I can't see their faces,
Only the shadows of their eyes.
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Re: Best Opening Line of a Song.

Postby F.Laura » Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:19 pm

She can kill with a smile
She can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child,
But she's always a woman to me
baby if you strip, you could get a tip
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