Best opening lines in songs

"I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me"---Norwegian Wood, The Beatles

"Lady in a turban, cocaine tree." - Sailin' Shoes, Little Feat/Robert Palmer

Please, allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste...

"He was an accident waiting to happen / most accidents happen at home" - Porcelain Monkey - Warren Zevon

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.

"I used to rule the world, seas would rise when I gave the word"

- viva la vida

Others that I thought of after pondering a bit, and was amazed at how many awesome openers John Prine wrote:


"Sam Stone came home to his wife and family, after serving in the conflict overseas" ~ Sam Stone, John Prine

"I am an old woman, named after my mother. My old man's another child whose grown old" ~ Angel From Montgomery, John Prine

"I knew a girl who was almost a lady. She had a way with all the men in her life. Every inch of her blossomed in beauty. She was born on the 4th of July" ~ The Great Compromise, John Prine

"It was Christmas in prison and the food was real good. We had turkey and pistols carved out of wood" ~ Christmas in Prison, John Prine

"In an Appalachian Greyhound station, she sits there waiting in a family way" ~ Unwed Fathers, John Prine

"When I was a boy my family would travel down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born. There's a backwards old town that's often remembered so many times that my memories are worn" ~ Paradise, John Prine

Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street

I met her in a club down in old Soho

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends

"Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?"