What is the Best Opening Lyric of all Time?

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places that I used to play…

Tower of Song
Leonard Cohen

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Great choice…How about this from LC? “They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom…”

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The first song I heard on a decent stereo system in my younger days,…and still one of my favourites

He was the wizard of a thousand kings
And I chanced to meet him one night wandering.
He told me tales, and he drank my wine
Me and my magic man kinda feelin’ fine.
He had a cloak of gold and eyes of fire…

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You sat ee-ther, and I say eye-ther
You say nee-ther, and I say ny-ther

“This is a public service announcement…with guitar”

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My name is Jack and I live in the back of the Greta Garbo Home

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You painted up your lips, and rolled and curled your tinted hair

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I got sunshine in my stomach like I just rocked my baby to sleep.

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We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout…

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When routine bites hard and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high but emotions won’t grow

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Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond.

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Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor…

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Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away… only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air

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Wha saw the tattie howkers? Wha saw them gang awa’?

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When you pick up your Sunday morning papers, it’s nearly always trouble that you read …

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Best opening lines - Intro - ever. Ok, the song is not all that and fortunately G&R had nothing to do with the film…

They’re selling postcards of the hanging

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“Just like an old friend,kinder than expected,that Cadillac came and gave our girl a ride.”

Golden Embers by Mandolin Orange

Hits me every time I hear that song what was just now.

She came on to him like a slow moving cold front.

John Hiatt - Icy Blue Heart

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Loneliness is a cloak you wear