Greatest first lines of classic rock songs

"Oh I just don't know where to begin..." - Elvis Costello, "Accidents Will Happen". First lines on the album too

Going with the Rolling Stones, it's hard to top "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste"

There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the thief

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
Stars fill my dream
I'm a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been

Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage

“Hey mama said the way you move, going to make you sweat going to make you groove”

I couldn't say where she's coming' from
But I just met a lady named Dinah-Moe Humm

"I was a little too tall, could have used a few pounds..."

"Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press..."

Opening Riff Combined with Lyrics

In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream.
At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand walking through the streets of Soho in the rain.

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."

This is the end, beautiful friend.

Rock on gold dust woman
take your silver spoon dig your grave

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

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

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung
Would you hear my voice come through the music
Would you hold it near as it were your own?