Greatest Opening Lines from Songs Part 1 (June 2015)
This list is a list of the greatest opening lines in songs of all time. Listed are the artist, the song and the lyric. This is a huge list so it will be in several parts. This is part one. Check out my list of greatest song openings as well. That is a different list all together.
325. Don Mclean- Vincent/ Starry, starry night
324. Chicago- Look Away/ When you called me up this morning
323. Don Henley- Heart of the matter/ I got the call today, I didn’t want to hear
322. Bette Midler- The Rose/ Some say love it is a river
321. Bon Jovi- Living on a prayer/ Tommy used to work on the dock
320. John Mellencamp- Ain’t even done with the night/ well our hearts beat like thunder
319. Judas Priest- You got another thing coming/ One life, I’m going to live it up
318. Don Henley- End of the Innocence/ Remember when the days were long
317. Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam- Lost in emotion/ Some guys will promise you a marriage made in heaven
316. Prince- 1999/ I was dreaming when I wrote this
315. Celine Dion- My heart will go on/ Every night in my dreams
314. U2- With or without you/ See the stone set in your eye, see the thorn twist in your side
313. Eagles- Hotel California/ On a dark dessert highway
312. Bon Jovi- Wanted dead or alive/ It’s all the same, only the names have changed
311. Avril Lavigne- Complicated/ Chill out, what ya yelling for?
310. Lynyrd Skynyrd- Sweet home Alabama/ Big wheels keep on turning
309. Marvin Gaye- What’s going on/ Mother, Mother, there’s far too many of you crying
308. Jefferson Airplane- White Rabbit/ One pill makes you taller
307. Rolling Stones- Brown Sugar/ Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
306. Sex Pistols- Anarchy in the UK/ Right, now
305. Rolling Stones- Honkytonk women/ I met a gin soaked bar room queen in Memphis
304. Mark Ronson- Valerie/ Well sometimes I go out by myself and I look across the water
303. Rolling Stones- Jumpin’ Jack Flash/ I was born in a cross fire hurricane
302. Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody/ Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
301. Gloria Gaynor- I will survive/ First I was afraid, I was petrified
300. Alanis Morissette- Ironic/ an old man turns 98
299. Aerosmith- Amazing/ I kept the right ones out
298. Boris Pickett- Monster Mash/ I was working in the lab, late one night
297. Who- My Generation/ People try to put us down
296. Def Leppard- Pour some sugar on me/ Love is like a bomb
295. Elton John- Daniel/ Daniel is leaving tonight on a plane
294. Taylor Dayne- Tell it to my heart- I feel the night explode, when we’re together
293. Robbie Williams- No Regrets/ Tell me a story, where we all change
292. Poison- Ride the Wind/ How to fly, streets of stone
291. Beatles- I am the Walrus/ I am, you are, he is me and we are all together
290. Midnight Oil- Beds are Burning/ Down where the river broke
289. T Rex- Children of the Revolution/ You can bump and grind, if it’s good for your mind
288. Debbie Gibson- Only in my dreams/ Every time I tell a secret
287. Stone Temple Pilots- Plush/ And I feel, the times a ways to go
286. Warrant- Sometimes she cries/ Guess I don’t think she’s good anymore
285. Stevie Wonder- Sir Duke/ Music is a world within itself
284. Michael Jackson- Thriller/ It’s close to midnight
283. Don Mclean- American Pie/ A long, long time ago
282. Stevie Wonder- Superstition/ Very Superstitious, writings on the wall
281. Van Halen- Jump/ I get up, and nothing gets me down
280. Run DMC- It’s Tricky/ This beat is my recital
279. Michael Jackson- Billie Jean/ She was more like a beauty queen, from a movie scene
278. Swing Out Sister- Breakout/ When explanations make no sense
277. John Mellencamp- Pink Houses/ There’s a black man with a black cat
276. Oasis- Don’t Look back in anger/ Slip inside the eye of your mind
275. One Direction- What makes you beautiful/ You’re insecure, don’t know what for
274. Tom Petty- Refugee/ We got something, we both know it, we don’t talk too much about it
273. Run DMC- King of Rock/ I’m the king of rock. There is none higher
272. T Rex- 20th Century Boy/ Friends say it’s fine, friends say it’s good
271. Sex Pistols- God save the Queen/ God save the queen, the fascist regime
270. Queen- We are the Champions/ I paid my dues, time after time
269. Beach Boys- Good Vibrations/ I, love the colorful clothes she wears
268. Girls Aloud- I’ll stand by you/ Oh, why you look so sad?
267. Smashing Pumpkins- Disarm/ Solve you with a smile
266. Europe- Final Countdown/ We’re leaving together
265. Simon Garfunkel- the Boxer/ I am just a poor boy, though my story’s seldom told
264. David Bowie- Station to Station/ The return of the thin white duke
263. Madonna- Crazy for you/ Swaying room as the music starts
262. Who- I can see for miles/ I know you deceived me so here’s a surprise
261. Mr. Mister- Kyrie/ The wind blows hard across this mountain side
260. Beatles- Come Together/ Here come old flat top, he come grooving up slowly
259. U2- Sunday Bloody Sunday/ I can’t believe the news today
258. David Bowie- the man who sold the world/ We passed upon the stairs
257. Faith No More- Falling to Pieces/ Back and forth I sway with the wind
256. Lisa Loeb- Stay/ You say, I only hear what I want to
255. Prince- Raspberry Beret/ I was working part time at a five and dime
254. Spin Doctors- Little Miss can’t be wrong/ It’s been a whole lot easier since the B**** left town
253. Beach Boys- Surfin’ USA/ If everybody had an ocean
252. George Michael- I want your sex/ There’s things that you guess and things that you know
251. Poison- Life goes on/ I felt this before, now I feel it again
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