re: Best opening line in a song

Teenage angst has paid off well, now I’m bored and old - Serve the Servents - Nirvana

Well I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around said which way the wind blows
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows


Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
That means he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry

I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna cross that river
I'm gonna catch tomorrow now
You're gonna wanna hold me
Just like I always told you
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone

I am an old woman named after my mother
My old man is another child that's grown old

Living on the road my friend
Is gonna keep you free and clean
Now you wear your skin like iron
And your breath as hard as kerosene

Can’t post any, but almost any opening line from Steel Panther puts a smile on my face.
Example: gloryhole

Hey kids, shake it loose together
Spotlight’s hitting something that’s been known to change the weather

The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays

We can share the women we can share the wine.
We can share what we've got of yours cause we done shared all of mine.

I was staying at the Marriot with Jesus and John Wayne
I was waiting on a chariot they were waiting for a train.

I stand up next to a mountain. I chop it down with the edge of my hand.

Out here in the fields. I fight for my meals.
I get my back into my living.
I don't need to fight. To prove I'm right.
I don't need to be forgiven.

Look out mama there's a white boat comin' up the river.

Mother told me, yes, she told me I'd meet girls like you.
She also told me, "stay away, you'll never know what you'll catch."

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Pulled into Nazarath, I was feeling bout half past dead.

Last night I broke the seal on a Jim Beam decanter
That looks like Elvis
I soaked the label off a Flintstone Jelly Bean jar

We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won
As we sailed into the mystic

If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream

I can hear her heart beat for a thousand miles
And the heaven's open every time she smiles

So my good friend
The super drug ends
I go up to the stratosphere
Brain fry day-glo
Holy water for your soul
And I’ll wake up in the U.S.A

I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396
Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor
She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot
Outside the Seven-Eleven store

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

Five names that I can hardly stand to hear
Including yours and mine
And one more chimp who isn't here



I could probably rattle off about 500 more eventually but this will do for now.