best first lines in a rock song

Rock marking 'til I can think of one, C.S.

Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again

Yo ya estoy hasta la madre
de que me pongan sombrero
escucha entonces cuando digo
no me llames frijolero.

Frijolero-Molotov

Humble Pie -----

There she is again
Steppin' out of her limousine, well
Looking like the cover of a twenty-dollar magazine
She's got it made and branded
If you know what I mean

"Hi Mr. Tyler. Going....down?" Aerosmith, Love in an Elevator

"I don't know where they come from but they sure do come" Ted, Cat Scratch Fever

"My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, took him for all he was worth" Tom Petty, Yer So Bad

Blackout, heat wave, 44 caliber homicide, you know the bums drop dead and the dogs go mad in packs on the east side. A young girl standing on a ledge looks like another suicide… She wants to hit those bricks cause the news at 6 gotta stick to a deadline. While the millionaires hide in Peyton place, the bag ladies throw their bones in my face, I get attacked by a kid with stereo sound… I don't want to hear it but he won't turn it down… Life is tough but it's just enough, to hold back tears till it's closing time. I don't know why I'm still a nice guy but I'm getting closer to the borderline.
Billy Joel-Close to the Borderline

I am me as you are we ans you are me and we are all together.

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that's a great one bill. billy Joel has done a lot of good stuff. Must catch up with him again.


A little Guns & Roses from "Nightrain"


Well I'm a west coast struttin'
One bad mother
Got a rattlesnake suitcase
Under my arm
Said I'm a mean machine
Been drinkin' gasoline
An honey you can make my motor hum
I got one chance left
In a nine live cat
I got a dog eat dog sly smile
I got a Molotov cocktail with a match to go
I smoke my cigarette with style
An I can tell you honey
You can make my money tonight

This doesn't really count, as there's a chorus before the first verse, but the first verse of the Clash's "Lost in the Supermarket" begins, "I wasn't born so much as I fell out."

If you can play it Dog, it counts. Poetic licence

Hold on this song has a little introduction to it
It's ain't supposed to be sad though you might feel it that way
It's a song about desperation,
Every now and then we do get desperate

This is a song about L-O-V-E,
and if you abuse it you're gonn' lose it
and if you lose it you're gonn' 'buse and
if you 'buse it you aint gonn' be able to choose it
cuz you aint gonn' have it further on down the line
things aint gonn' be so fine
you're gonn' to be sitting there on your little.. machine
tryin to look and keep it clean and
You're going to be home playing bingo all night all alone
and that's why your sittin there by the telephone
and you know that she aint goin to call you!

So you put on the TV and you're watchin Johnny Carson
segwayin right into the Tomorrow show
but that don't got the go so you turn it off ya turn on the radio,
the radio don't' seem to get the click so you say
"Hey Man, I can't lickety split"
You start to open up a little book
and there's somethin there you got to overlook
and you say "BABY, you know there's somethin on my mind!
"You say "Baby there's somethin on my mind -
I know that you're home and I know you aint all alone! "

So you start walking over to her house
and you get over to her house
and you walk over to her door and
you start poundin on her door and you say
"Open up the door bitch!"
This is wooba gooba with the green teeth, let me in!!"

Well, she opens up the door
and then you just kinda walk up to her and say
"Baby", (say Baby!) you look up way up at her green mascara
and you say "Oh my darling,
you know her and me was at the party as friends -
do not believe what they say
that's only gossip that they tellin ya -
a wise crack of lies!"
You say Darling!!!

Take your big curls and squeeze them down Ratumba -
What's the name of the chick with the long hair?
(Rapunzel!) Hey Rapunzel!
Heh heh... Hey Reputa the beautah! Reputa the Beautah!
Hey Reputa the Beautah flip me down your hair
and let me climb up to the ladder of your love!!
Because this is the wooba gooba sayin to ya
"Love comes once and when it comes
you better grab it fast cuz sometimes the love
you grab aint gonn' last and
I believe I musta,
You know I think I musta,
You know baby I think I musta,
You know I think I musta,
I musta got lost!!!!!!!

1…2….3…

Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.
Leonard Cohen- The Future

On a morning from a Bogart movie
in a country where they turned back time
you go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun
in a silk dress running
like a watercolor in the rain
don't bother asking for explanations
she'll just tell you that she came
in the year of the cat
- Al Stewart "The Year of the Cat"

And -

Was it something I did in another life
I try and try
but nothing comes out right
for me
bad karma
killing me by degrees
- Warren Zevon, "Bad Karma"

Led Zeppelin


Living loving maid Lyrics

With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat,
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
Missus cool rides out in her aged Cadillac.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

*Come on, babe on the round about,
Ride on the merry-go-round,
We all know what your name is,
So you better lay your money down.

Alimony, alimony payin' your bills,
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
When your conscience hits, you knock it back with pills.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

Elton John:

Teacher I Need You
I was sitting in the classroom
Trying to look intelligent
In case the teacher looked at me
She was long and she was lean
She's a middle-aged dream
And that lady means the whole world to me

It's a natural achievement
Conquering my homework
With her image pounding in my brain
She's an inspiration
For my graduation
And she helps to keep the classroom sane

Oh teacher I need you like a little child
You got something in you to drive a schoolboy wild
You give me education in the lovesick blues
Help me get straight come out and say
Teacher I, teacher I, teacher I, Teacher I need you

I have to write a letter
Tell about my feelings
Just to let her know the scene
Focus my attention
On some further education
In connection with the birdies and the bees

So I'm sitting in the classroom
I'm looking like a zombie
I'm waiting for the bell to ring
I've got John Wayne stances
I've got Erroll Flynn advances
And it doesn't mean a doggoned thing

"HI THERE!" Peter Gabriel, Big Time, album: So.

"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." (Folsom Prison Blues, live at Folsom Prison. More a-billy than rock...)

Not the first line, but my all time favourite none the less..

"I'd kill a dragon for you" - Sinead O'Conner - Lion and the Cobra

Remember when you were young?
You shone like the sun!
Shine On You Crazy Diamond!

Pink Floyd