Greatest Opening lines in songs Part 2

 Greatest Opening Lines in Songs Part 2 (June 2015)

250. Expose- Point of no return/ Seems so long, feels just like a dream, it’s a mystery to me

249. AC/DC- Back in Black/ I’m back in black, I hit the sack

248. Billy Joel- Piano Man/ It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday

247. Bruce Springsteen- Brilliant Disguise/ I hold you in my arms, is a bad place

246. Black Sabbath- Paranoid/ Finished with my woman cause she couldn’t help me with my mind

245. David Bowie- Life on Mars/ It’s a God awful small affair

244. Elton John- Border Song/ Holy Moses, I have been removed

243. Spinal Tap- Big Bottom/ the bigger the cushion the sweeter the pushin’

242. Foreigner- I want to know what love is/ Going to take a little time

241. Beatles- Hard Day’s Night/ It’s been a hard day’s night and I’ve been working like a dog

240. Pantera- Walk/ Can’t you see, I’m easily bothered by persistence

239. U2- One/ Is it getting better?

238. Dr. Dre- Dre Day/ Mr. Busta, where the f*** you at?

237. Beatles- Day Tripper/ Need a good reason, for taking the easy way out

236. Cars- Magic /Saw her, it turns me upside down

235. Rob Base- It takes two/ I wanna rock right now

234. Prince- Let’s go crazy/ Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life

233. Poison- I won’t forget you/ Late at night I close my eyes

232. John Parr- St. Elmo’s Fire/ Growing up, you don’t see the writing on the wall

231. Neil Young- Heart of Gold/ I want to live, I want to give

230. Creedence Clearwater Revival- Looking out my back door/ Just got home from Illinois

229. Journey- Separate Ways/ Here we stand

228. Cars- Drive/ Who’s going to tell you when, it’s too late

227. Duran Duran- Rio/ Moving on the floor now, you’re the bird of paradise

226. Shirelles- Will you still love me/ Tonight you’re mine, completely

225. Madonna- True Blue/ I’ve had other guys, I’ve looked into their eyes

224. LA Guns- Ballad of Jayne/ She was always something special

223. Manic Street Preachers- If you tolerate this/ The future teaches us to be alone

222. Georgia Satellites- Keep your hands to yourself/ Got a little change in my pocket

221. Metallica- One/ I can’t remember anything

220. Meat Loaf- Paradise by the dashboard light/ I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday

219. David Bowie- Rock N’ Roll Suicide/ Time takes a cigarette

218. Dokken- Burning like a flame/ Never thought that our love would last for so long

217. Cars- My best friend’s girlfriend/ She’s always dancing down the street, with her suede blue eyes

216. Jackson 5- I want you back/ when I had you to myself, I didn’t want you around

215. David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust/ Ziggy played guitar

214. Elvis Costello- Radio, Radio/ I was tuning in the shadow the late night dial doing anything my radio advised

213. Dusty Springfield- Son of a Preacher man/ Billy Ray was a preacher’s son, when his Daddy would visit, he’d come along

212. Metallica- Wherever I may Roam/ And the road becomes my pride

211. Foo Fighters- Learn to Fly/ Run and tell all of the angels, this could take all night

210. Godfathers- Birth, school, work, death/ Turned around, turned upside down

209. Hall and Oates- Out of Touch/ Shake it up, is all that we know

208. Carpenters- Close to you/ Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?

207. Dido- Thank you/ My tea’s gone cold I wonder why I got out of bed at all

206. Carol King- It’s too late/ Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time

205. Temple of the Dog- Hungerstrike/ I don’t mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadents

204. Elton John- Rocketman/ She packed my bags last night, pre-flight

203. Carpenters- I won’t last a day without you/ Day after day, I must face a world of strangers

202. Kid Rock- Bawitdaba/ This one’s for the questions that don’t have any answers

201. Third Eye Blind- Semi Charmed life/ The sky was gold, it was rose

200. U2- Where the streets have no name/ I want to run, I want to hide

199. Bush- Everything Zen/ There must be something that we can eat

198. Duran Duran- Hungry like the wolf/ Darken the city, night is a wire

197. Robbie Williams- Something Beautiful/ You can’t manufacture a miracle

196. Queen- Don’t stop me now/ Tonight, I’m going to have myself a real good time

195. Madonna- Into the Groove/ And you can dance, for inspiration

194. Journey- Open Arms/ lying beside you, here in the dark

193. Queen- Killer Queen/ She keeps a Moet et Chandon in a pretty cabinet

192. Rolling Stones- Get off of my cloud/ I live on the corner of the 99th floor in my block

191. Cream- Sunshine of your love/ It’s getting near dawn

190. Creedence Clearwater Revival- Fortunate Son/ Some folks were born, made to wave the flag

189. Robert Palmer- Addicted to love/ the lights are on, but you’re not home

188. Billy Joel- Allentown/ Well I’m living here in Allentown, and they’re closing all the factories down

187. Steve Winwood- The Finer Things/ While there is time, let’s go out and do everything

186. Roxette- Listen to your heart/ I know there's something in the wake of your smile

185. Derringer- Real American/ When it comes crashing down and it hurts inside

184. Go West- King of Wishful thinking/ I don’t need to fall at your feet

183. Leona Lewis- Run/ I’ll sing it one last time for you, then we really have to go

182. Carpenters- Hurting each other/ No one in the world ever had a love as sweet as my love

181. Creedence Clearwater Revival- Have you ever seen the rain/ someone told me long ago, there’s a calm before a storm

180. Alice in Chains- Would?/ Know me, broken by my master

179. Thompson Twins- Hold me now/ I have a picture, pinned to my wall

178. Rod Stewart- Downtown Train/ Outside another yellow moon, has punched a hole in the night time mist

177. Beatles- Back in the USSR/ Flew in from Miami beach BOAC, Didn’t get to bed last night

176. Wannadies- You and me/ Always when we fight, I try to make you laugh

175. The Fixx- One thing leads to another/ The deception, with tact

174. Billy Joel- Just the way you are/ Don’t go changing, to try and please me

173. George Thorogood- Bad to the bone/ On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered around

172. Iron Maiden- Run to the Hills/ the white man came across the sea

171. REM- Losing my religion/ Oh, life is bigger, it’s bigger than you and you are not me

170. David Bowie- Starman/ Didn’t know what time it was and lights were low, low, low

169. Olly and Jerry- There’s no stopping us/ Out in the street, you don’t survive by being weak

168. Rob Zombie- More Human than human/ I am and Astro creep, a demolition style hell American freak yeah

167. Lynyrd Skynyrd- Free Bird/ If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?

166. Killers- Somebody told me/ Breaking my back just to know your name

165. Michael Jackson- The way you make me feel/ You knock me off of my feet now baby

164. Men at Work- Down Under/ Living in a fried out combie

163. Beatles- Ticket to ride- I think I’m going to be sad, I think it’s today

162. Talking Heads- Psychokiller/ I can’t seem to face up to the facts

161. Steppenwolf- Born to be wild/ Get your motor running

160. Warrant- I saw Red/ Ooh it must be magic, how inside your eyes I see my destiny

159. Europe- Carrie/ When lights go down

158. Stevie Wonder- Signed, sealed, delivered/ Like a fool I went and stayed to long

157. Beatles- While my guitar gently weeps/ I look at you all, see the love there that’s sleeping

156. Robbie Williams- Sexed up/ Lose lips sunk ships, I’m getting to grips with what you said

155. Monkees- Hey, Hey we’re the Monkees/ Here we come, walking down the street

154. Ozzy Osbourne- Mama I’m coming home/ Times have changed and times are strange, here I come, but I ain’t the same

153. Genesis- Invisible touch/ Well, I’ve been waiting, waiting here so long

152. Heart- Alone/ I hear the ticking of the clock, I’m lying here, the room’s pitch dark

151. The Who- Baba O’Riley/ Out here in the fields

150. Pearl Jam- Eveneflow/ Freezing, rest his head on a pillow made of concrete

149. Phil Collins- Don’t lose that number/ They came at night, leaving fear behind

148. Billy Idol- White Wedding/ Hey little sister what have you done?

147. Glenn Fry- Smuggler’s Blues/ There’s trouble on the street tonight, I can feel it in my bones

146. Bee Gees- Tragedy/ Here I lie, in a dark and lonely part of town

145. Genesis- Throwing it all away/ Need I say I love you, need I say I care?

144. Alesha Dixon- Breathe Slow/ I’m running out of patience cause I can’t believe what the hell I’m hearing

143. Paul Carrack- Don’t shed a tear/ Cab fare to nowhere is what you are

142. Creedence Clearwater Revival- Proud Mary- Left a good job in the city

141. Genesis- In too deep/ All this time I’ve been searching, with nowhere to run to, it started me thinking

140. Terrance Trent D’arby- Wishing Well/ Kissing like a bandit stealing time, underneath the sycamore tree

139. Poison- Talk Dirty to me/ You know I’ve never, I’ve never seen you look so good

138. Al Green- Let’s stay together/ I am so in love with you

137. Pat Benatar- Love is a Battlefield/ We are young, heartache to heartache we stand

136. Kenny Rogers- The Gambler/ On a dark dessert highway, on train bound for nowhere

135. The Who- Won’t get fooled again/ we’ll be fighting in the street

134. The Byrds- Turn, Turn, Turn/ To everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season

133. NWA- Express Yourself/ Now I’m expressing with my full capabilities, and now I’m living in correctional facilities

132. Billy Idol- Eyes without a face/ I’m all out of hope, one more bad dream, could bring a fall

131. Whitesnake- Here I go again/ I don’t know where I’m going, but I sure know where I’ve been

130. Oasis- Supersonic/ I’ve got to be myself, I can’t be no one else

129. Oasis- Live Forever/ Maybe, I don’t really want to know how your garden grows

128. Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Give it away/ What I got, you’ve got to give it to your mama

127. James Taylor- Sweet Baby James/ There is a young Cowboy who lives on the range

126. Elvis Presley- If I can dream/ Got to be light shining brighter, somewhere

125. Expose- Seasons Change/ Some dreams, are in the night time

124. Genesis- Tonight, Tonight, Tonight/ I’m going down, going down like a monkey

123. Monkees- I’m a believer/ I thought love was only true in faery tales

122. Starship- Nothing’s gonna stop us now/ Looking in your eyes, I see a paradise

121. Cornershop- Brimful of Asha/ There dancing, behind movie scenes, behind those movie screens

120. Michael Jackson- Smooth Criminal/ Well he came in through the window, was the sound of a crescendo

119. Frankie Goes to Hollywood- Relax/ Ay, ay, ay yeah, give it to me one time now

118. Jimi Hendrix- Voodo Chile/ Well I stand up next to a mountain

117. Hall and Oates- Private Eyes/ I see you, you see me

116. Dio- Rainbow in the dark/ When there’s lightning, you know it always brings me down

115. John Mellencamp- Crumblin’ Down/ Some people, they ain’t no damn good

114. Jefferson Airplane- Somebody to Love/ When the truth is found, to be lies

113. LL Cool J- Mama said knock you out/ Don’t call it a comeback. I’ve been here for years

112. Elton John- Candle in the Wind/ Goodbye Norma Jean

111. Mott the Hoople- All the Young Dudes/ Billy rapped all night about a suicide

110. Michael Jackson- Beat it/ They told him don’t you ever come around here

109. Judas Priest- Breaking the law/ There I was completely wasting, out of work and down

108. Bob Dylan- The times they are a changing/ Come gather round people wherever you roam

107. Don Henley- Boys of Summer/ Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach

106. Paul McCartney- Band on the run/ Stuck inside these four walls

105. David Bowie- Wild eyed boy from Freecloud/ Solemn faced the village settled down

104. Bruce Springsteen- Born in the USA/ Born down in a dead man’s town

103. Metallica- the Unforgiven/ New blood joins his herd

102. David Bowie- Diamond Dogs/ This ain’t rock n’ roll, this is genocide

101. John Waite- Missing you/ Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath