Best opening lyrics to a Rock & Roll song:

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  • Posts: 133
    "Been dazed and confused for so long its not true,
    Wanted a woman, never bargained for you.
    Lots of people talk and few of them know,
    Soul of a woman was created below."



    Damn, I love those lines.
    "Strangers passing in the street, by chance two seperate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me."
  • Posts: 411
    "I'm a street walkin' cheetah with a heart full of napalm..."
  • Posts: 16,994
    When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
    There I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
    till I get to the bottom and I see you again......
    SEE YOU AGAINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Posts: 4,475
    Have mercy on me, sir
    Allow me to impose on you
    I have no place to stay
    And my bones are cold right through
    I will tell you a story
    Of a man and his family
    And I swear that it is true

    Song of Joy - Nick Cave - Murder Ballads

    Perfect introduction to a perfect Murder Ballad.

    Alice wakes
    It is morning
    She is yawning
    As she walks about the room
    Her hair falls down her breast
    She is naked and it is June

    Watching Alice - Nick Cave - Tender Prey

    There's a devil waiting outside your door
    (How much longer?)
    There's a devil waiting outside your door
    It is bucking and braying and pawing at the floor
    And he's howling with pain and crawling up the walls
    There's a devil waiting outside your door
    He's weak with evil and broken by the world
    He's shouting your name and he's asking for more
    There's a devil waiting outside your door

    Loverman     - Nick Cave - Let Love In

    God Cave is brilliant.. there are so many songs that I wanted to put in here but then thought... No, the best words are in the middle and that would defeat the purpose of the thread. Easy Money, Abattoir Blues, Henry Lee, Stagger Lee, The Mercy Seat,.... it just goes on and on. Genious.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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    Oh my, they dropped the leash.



    Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!

    "Make our day"
  • Posts: 31,648
    korby wrote:
    hey hey mama said the way you move gonna make u sweat gonna make u groove
    yeah i vote for these lyrics ,ZEPP all the way.......totall pure rock.....
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Posts: 647
    "My smile is stuck
    I cannot go back to your Frownland"

    "I've got you,
    You've got whatever's left of me to get.
    Our conversations are like minefields,
    No one's found a safe way through one yet"

    "Once I had my heroes
    Once I had my dream
    But all of that is changed now
    They've turned things inside out
    The truth is not that comfortable, no"

    "She took the Oldsmobile out past Condor Ave.
    And she locked the car and slipped past
    Into rythmic quietude
    Lights burning
    Voice dry and hoarse
    I threw the screen door like a bastard back and forth"
    The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
    And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
  • Posts: 266
    Number of the beast. 666






    Iron Maiden.
    22 nov. Santiago
    23 nov. Santiago
    25 nov. Buenos Aires
    26 nov. Buenos Aires


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  • Posts: 456
    I went stumbling through the fog trying to find a reason for the things I told her
    She woke up sunny side down and I was still thinking I was too proud to flip her over
    "I'm a thief, and I dig it"
  • Posts: 227
    "Early this morning, I heard a knock upon my door.
    And I said, 'Hello Satan. I believe it's time to go.'"
    --Robert Johnson -- "Me and the Devil"

    "I got to keep moving, keep moving--blues falling down like hail, falling down like hail. And these days keep reminding me: there's a hellhound on my trail."
    --Robert Johnson -- "Hellhound on My Trail"

    Sometimes you can't get any better lyrics than old blues ones.

    "Well I just got into town about an hour ago. Took a look around see which way the wind blow."
    --The Doors
    Sleep on horseback
    Far moon in a continuing dream
    Steam of roasting tea

    --Basho
  • Posts: 7,223
    soulsinging wrote:
    whoooooooooo's got the brain of jfk?

    i love that growl :)

    I was thinking EX-ACTLY the same :)
    ♪♫♪♫♫

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

    ♪♫♪♫♫
  • Posts: 17,894
    Dont believe what you hear, dont believe what you see
    If you just close your eyes, you can feel the enemy

    When I first met you girl you had fire in your soul
    What happened your face of melting in snow?
    Now it looks like this!

    And you can swallow or you can spit
    You can throw it up or choke on it
    And you can dream so dream out loud
    You know that your time is coming round
    ...dont let the bastards grind you down
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • Posts: 57
    A bit sappy but

    Something in the way she moves
    Attracts me like no other lover
    Something in the way she woos me
    Meg: Everybody! Guess what I am?
    Stewie: Hm, the end result of a drunken back-seat grope-fest and a broken prophylactic?
  • Posts: 1,910
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    I'm having a hard time thinking of a better one that that. Plus, it's a great opening lyric to an entire album.


    Yeah the fact that it opens an album makes it that much better.

    I do have to say this one is pretty sweet as well (being as we're on a PJ message board and all)

    "The waiting drove me mad. You're finally here and I'm a mess"
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • Posts: 176
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    "Darkness at the break of noon, shadows even the silver spoon,
    the handmade blade, the child's balloon,
    eclipses both the sun and moon,
    and to understand you know too soon,
    there's no sense in trying"

    "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is lyrical perfection.

    no doubt, the best.
  • Posts: 6,116
    the screen door slams, mary's dress waves, like a vision she dances
  • Posts: 3,326
    transplant wrote:
    “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine,”

    Patti Smith
    Only took until the third post to get it ... well done!
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • Posts: 507
    transplant wrote:
    “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine,”

    Patti Smith


    QFT.
  • Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    "Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee" - Don Van Vliet
  • Posts: 1,143
    Standing on a corner
    Suitcase in my hand

    -"Sweet Jane" by Velvet Underground
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  • Posts: 489
    Gardenparty wrote:
    "The waiting drove me mad. You're finally here and I'm a mess"

    ahh that might be my choice

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