Best opening lyrics to a Rock & Roll song:

I'm rolling thunder, pouring rain
I'm coming on like a hurricane

- AC/DC, "Hells Bells"

I don't know about 'best' but here's a good one.

"Worked in bars and sideshows along the twilight zone
Only a crowd can make you feel so alone"


Stones-Before They Make Me Run

"There was a young girl, whos heart was a frown
cause she was crippled for life,
And she couldnt speak a sound
And she wished and prayed she could stop living,
So she decided to die
She drew her wheelchair to the edge of the shore
And to her legs she smiled you wont hurt me no more
But then a sight shed never seen made her jump and say
Look a golden winged ship is passing my way

And it really didnt have to stop, it just kept on going...

And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually"

Sometimes Hendrix's guitar overshadowed his lyrics...

Edit: Oops, not an OPENING lyric...

This is still good:

"Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
As she slams the door in his drunken face"

if the sun refused to shine,
i would still be loving you.
when mountains crumble to the sea,
there will still be you and me.

Two of my favorites:

"Black out the windows, it's party time"
- Martin Eden by Twilight Singers
(which actually opens and sets the tone for the album)

"Good Lord, I haven't seen you in awhile. I have always appreciated your style."
- All the Way Down by Forever Breakers (Shawn Smith and Theddeus Turner)

pantera - the great southern trendkill


"AAAAAAAHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhAHhhhhaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

hey hey mama said the way you move gonna make u sweat gonna make u groove

Tom Waits "Xmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis"

"Hey Charlie, I'm pregnant and living on 9th Street
Right above a dirty bookstore off Euclid Avenue
And I stopped takin' dope and I quit drinkin' whiskey
And my old man plays the trombone and works out at the track"

after a long slow nice piano intro, just the first four words..Hey Charlie im pregnant... catch you COMPLETELY off guard the first time you ever hear it!


hell, all of his songs have fucken awesome lyrics....

how bout Heartattack and Vine's opening...

"Liar, liar, with your pants on fire
White spades hangin’ on the telephone wire
Gamblers re-evaluate along the dotted line
You’ll never recognize yourself on Heartattack and Vine"

or singapore's...

"We sail tonight for Singapore, we’re all as mad as hatters here"

or rain dogs...

"Inside a broken clock
Splashing the wine with all the rain dogs
Taxi, we’d rather walk
Huddle a doorway with the rain dogs
For I am a rain dog too"

or It's All right with me

"It’s the wrong time and the wrong place
Though your face is charming, it’s the wrong face
It’s not her face, but such a charming face
That it’s all right with me"

and the WHOLE of the piano has been drinking




PS sorry im on a tom waits kick at the moment!

JSP552003 wrote:

"Fool enough to almost be it, Cool enough to not quite see it"
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise

One of the most chilling, beautiful, moving songs I've ever heard.

"Mother weep the years I'm missing,
all the time can't be given,
back.
Well I'll shut my mouth and strike the demons,
curesed you, and your reasons,
out of hand and out of season,
out of love and out of feeling"

Every single time I hear that song, to this day - 4 years or so since I first heard it - when the guitars crash for the first time in the begining i get tears in my eyes.

Anyway..

"My love, she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence,
she doesn't have to say she's faithful, if she's true like ice like fire"

or even better...

"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.

Gardenparty wrote:

"Teenage angst has paid off well. Now i'm bored and old"

I'm having a hard time thinking of a better one that that. Plus, it's a great opening lyric to an entire album.