re: Best opening lines in songs

Hannah honey was a peachy kind of girl

I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings, made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks or apologize

I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together


Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise
Run in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies


Hey Joe, where you going' with that gun in your hand

He put the bottle to his head and pulled the trigger


Here I stand, head in hands, turn my face to the wall

Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let fifty cents

Oh say can you see by the dawns early light

"Turn down the lights, turn down the bed, turn down these voices inside my head" ... Bonnie Raitt, I Can't Make You Love Me

"There's a bottle on the dresser by your ring and it's empty, so right now I don't feel a thing" ... Chris Stapleton, Whiskey and You

Hard to believe no mention of this one yet:

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...

He said "I'll love you til I die."

A few of my favorites

Turnpike
"There ain't a thing in the world could take me back like a dark haired girl in a Cadillac on main street of an old forgotten town "

Soundgarden
"Follow me into the desert
As thirsty as you are"

Bingham
"Take me to see the voodoo queen,
Let her put a spell on me"

Ryan Adams
"Ah the night...here it comes again
It's on with the jeans, the jacket and the shirt
How'd I end up feeling so bad
For such a little girl"

Justin Townes Earle
"I swear I see her in my dreams sometimes
Held up in the middle of the night
Shakin like a pistol in a young mans hand
There in the pale moonlight"

Isbell
"Here we sit
Across the table from each other
A thousand miles from both our mothers
Barely old enough to rust"

You like flowers and I like liquor. Your way's nice but my ways quicker -Hayes Carl, flowers and liquor.

You can say that I'm one curly fry in the box of the regular
Messing with the flavor oh the flavor that you savor
Saving me for last but you better not eat me at all

Ain't found a way to kill me yet
Eyes burn with stinging sweat
Seems every path leads me to nowhere
Wife and kids household pet
Army green was no safe bet
The bullets scream to me from somewhere

What does friend mean to you?
A word so wrongfully abused
Are you like me, confused
All included but you
Alone...

I was tumbling through your shadow as you were dancing in the rain.
I was learning the steps as I followed the disappearing tracks that remained

Whiskey river, take my mind
Don't let her memory torture me.
Whiskey River, don't run dry
You're all I've got, take care of me.