re: Greatest first lines of classic rock songs

As I was goin over the Cork and Kerry Mountains, I met with Captain Farrel, and his money he was a countin.

Blinded by the light, Wrecked up like a douche, you know, a runner in the night-

And,

I've been haulin' a@@ so long (Miss You by the Stones)

My favorite Zappa lyrics (lots to choose from) have always been:

She had that Camarillo brillo
Flamin' out along her head,
I mean her Mendocino bean-o
By where some bugs had made it red

She ruled the Toads of the Short Forest
And every newt in Idaho
And every cricket who had chorused
By the bush in Buffalo

She said she was a Magic Mama
And she could throw a mean Tarot
And carried on without a comma
That she was someone I should know

She had a snake for a pet
And an amulet
And she was breeding a dwarf
But she wasn't done yet
She had gray-green skin
A doll with a pin
I told her she was alright
But I couldn't come in
(I couldn't come in right then...)

And so she wandered through the doorway
Just like a shadow from the tomb
She said her stereo was four-way
And I'd just love it in her room
Well, I was born to have adventure
So I…

Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow

Down from the glen came the marching men
With their shields and their swords
To fight the fight they believed to be right
Overthrow the overlords

I don’t know where I’m going,
But I sure know where I’ve been



Whitesnake bitches!

Since there's a fellow Joe Jackson fan here.

"What the hell is wrong with you tonight?
I can't seem to say or do the right thing
Wanted to be sure you're feeling right
Wanted to be sure we want the same thing"

And for the Elvis Costello guys.

"Nice girls, not one with a defect,
Cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct
Red dogs under illegal x
She looks so good that he gets down and begs"

"Oh, it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl
And with the way you look I understand
that you are not impressed
But I heard you let that little friend of mine
take off your party dress
I'm not going to get too sentimental
like those other sticky valentines
Cause I don't know if you've been loving somebody
I only know it isn't mine"

Some people call me the space cowboy
Some call me the gangster of love

I was born in a crossfire hurricane

Almost every day
I see the same face
On broken picture tube
It fits the attitude