Most evocative first line or sentence

[Slipperydick]

We was rockin and a rollin at the borough town hall well pissed one Saturday night.

Urban Rock, Third World War.

[paul_5]

Mrs_5 really rates "First I was afraid, I was petrified…"

[paul_5]

"I am an antichrist and I am an anarchist" Sex Pistols

"Maybe, maybe it's the clothes we wear, the tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair" Suede

[Buzzy]

People try to put us down, just because we get around.

Or
Once upon a time you dressed so fine,you threw the bums a dime in your prime,didnt you.

[Mattspacebass]

You drink your coffee and I sip my tea
And were just sitting here playing cool
Thinking, what will be will be.

[gelfin]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1443006158' post='2871318']
I just love the tension created by that opening drone. The words are 'spoken' in almost a monotone. They mean nothing and they mean everything.

And, yes, I am.
[/quote]

Just out of curiosity, did you write that from memory?

[MacDaddy]

4 and 20 virgins came down from Inverness...;-)

[Old Horse Murphy]

Who's gonna water my plants, who's gonna patch my pants?

Edited September 26, 2015 by Old Horse Murphy

[ahpook]

"We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party"

[AustinArto]

There's a song on the last Ben Folds Five album that starts "She broke down and cried at the strip mall acupuncturists".

[Rich]

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1443294078' post='2873691']
"We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party
We like, we like to party
We like to party"
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"No no
No no no no
No no no no
No no there's no limits."

My god, it's poetry.

[Skol303]

"Thinking of a master plan, 'cos ain't nothing but sweat inside my hand"

[Slipperydick]

The most universally evocative first verse just has to be Slades Merry Christmas Everybody, hasn't it ?

Probably why its still played every Christmas.

[ahpook]

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1443298449' post='2873737']
"No no
No no no no
No no no no
No no there's no limits."

My god, it's poetry.
[/quote]

[LayDownThaFunk]

Losing all my friends
Losing them to drinking and to drugs
Losing all my friends
But I got them back

[timhiggins]

Hey Charlie i'm pregnant
living on 9th street
right above a dirty book store
off Euclid avenue
i stopped taking dope
i quit drinking whiskey
and my old man plays the trombone
and works out at the track

Tom Waits .Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis

[Dr.Dave]

Just remembered this one


[font="'Bookman Old Style"][color="#3d3d3d"]All my lazy teenage boasts are now high precision ghosts[/color][/font]
[font="'Bookman Old Style"][color="#3d3d3d"]And they're coming round the track to haunt me[/color][/font]

Although for the pedants among you it's not technically the first line.

[NickH]

I was down at the New Amsterdam, staring at this yellow haired girl - Counting Crows, Mr Jones

And your hands are really shaking something awful as you light your twenty-seventh cigarette - Joan Osborn, Crazy Baby

Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication

[boom boom]

The distant echo of faraway voices boarding faraway trains...

Plus fantastic bass line and full of great lines - They smelt of pubs and wormwood scrubs and too many right wing meetings...

[arthurhenry]

"Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent"

[Hobbayne]

In the pub, about seven thirty
Mother makes sure that his face ain't dirty
Him and mother go everywhere
Holds her hand without a care.

[steve-bbb]

[font=courier new,courier,monospace][size=6][b]Heatwaves on the runway ....[/b][/size][/font]

Edited September 27, 2015 by steve-bbb

[Freddy Le Cragg]

Cause I lost my job
Two weeks before Christmas

Cause by Rodriguez

[ezbass]

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000]Love I get so lost, sometimes[/color]
[color=#000000]Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart[/color]
[color=#000000]When I want to run away[/color]
[color=#000000]I drive off in my car[/color]
[color=#000000]But whichever way I go[/color]
[color=#000000]I come back to the place you are[/color][/font][/size]

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000]In Your Eyes - Peter [/color][color="#000000"]Gabriel [/color][/font][/size]

[Bilbo]

[quote name='gelfin' timestamp='1443264663' post='2873490']


Just out of curiosity, did you write that from memory?
[/quote]

Did I fcuk 😃