Most evocative first line or sentence

[Japhet]

Either;

He came across the Ocean with his Gallions an Guns...

Or

Do the Shake 'n Vac and put the freshness back.......


Can't decide.

[Billy Apple]

If you like to gamble....

[Roland Rock]

"I wrote the song two hours before we met.
I didn't know your name or what you looked like yet"

[Bilbo]

Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources,
Chased amid fusions of wonder
In moments hardly seen forgotten,
Coloured in pastures of chance
Dancing leaves cast spells of
Challenge,
Amused but real in thought,
We fled from the sea whole.
Dawn of thought transferred through moments of days undersearching
Earth
Revelaing corridors of time, provoking memories,
Disjointed but with purpose,
Craving penetrations offer links with the self-instructors sharp
And tender love
As we took to the air, a picture of distance.
Dawn of our power we amuse redescending as fast as misused
Expression,
As only to teach love as to reveal passion chasing
Late into corners,
And we danced from the ocean.
Dawn of love sent within us colours of awakening among the many
Won't to follow,
Only tunes of a different age.
As the links span our endless caresses for the freedom of life
Everlasting.

[chris_b]

Old friends, sat on their park bench like book ends.

Simon and Garfunkle

[wateroftyne]

'Well she was just seventeen / and you know what I mean.'

Welcome to a new era, youth of post-war Britain!

[Rich]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1442999793' post='2871222']
Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources,
Chased amid fusions of wonder
In moments [i]etc.[/i]
Everlasting.
[/quote]
Hippy.

[Rich]

The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar.

[wateroftyne]

Oh, how could I forget this one? My favourite recent example:

'I keep a weather eye on the horizon, and my back to the wall / I like to know who's coming though the door, that's all.'

Mark Knopfler - Cleaning My Gun.

[leftybassman392]

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air

[Billy Apple]

It was one of those nights when they turn out the lights..
and everything comes into view

[Number6]

Help me in my search for knowledge,
I must learn the Secret Art.

Who dares to help me raise the one
Whose very name stills my heart.

ASTAROTH

Black Widow, Come to the Sabbat

[colgraff]

Some excellent tunes in there, chaps.

This one came back to me, too.

"And did those feet
In ancient times.."

[Billy Apple]

She wore big knickers and worked on sewage farm

[Leonard Smalls]

You been to school for a year or two
Know you've seen it all

Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia

[phil.c60]

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1443001382' post='2871245']
The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar.
[/quote]

Yeah, this I like!

[Cato]

I put on my raincoat to make it rain, and sure enough the skies opened up again.
I dreamed of you as I walked to the shops, you were dancing with the wallies on Top of the Pops.

Billy Bragg - Moving the Goalposts.

[Bilbo]

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1443001318' post='2871244']
Hippy.
[/quote]

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.

[4-string-thing]

Said Red Molly to James, that's a fine motorbike
A girl could feel special on any such like

[KevB]

You're breathing, it's misleading - I'm sure you've been dead since you got in my bed.

[Jazzneck]

[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3][center]A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss a serenade[/center][/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3][center]Laying everybody low with a love song that he made[/center][/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3][center]Finds a streetlight, steps out of the shade[/center][/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3][center]Says something like, "You and me babe—how 'bout it?"[/center][/size][/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3][center]Juliet says, "Hey it's Romeo. You nearly gimme a heart attack"[/center][/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3][center]He's underneath the window; she's singing, "Hey, la, my boyfriend's back.[/center][/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3][center]You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that.[/center][/size][/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3][center]Anyway what you gonna do about it?"[/center][/size][/font][/color]

[phil.c60]

"....First line or sentence" and now verse, clearly.

[wateroftyne]

MK's a genius - people will realise one day.

[Jazzneck]

[quote name='phil.c60' timestamp='1443010243' post='2871390']
"....First line or sentence" and now verse, clearly.
[/quote]

Romeo and Juliet needed the following verses to understand the full poetry and beauty of the first line, IMHO, of course.

Edited September 23, 2015 by Jazzneck

[Jazzneck]

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1443010250' post='2871391']
MK's a genius - people will realise one day.
[/quote]

Agreed.