best first line in rock and roll song

[notthemama]

Bob is the man
1) just take those old records off the shelf
I sit and listen to them by myself
today's music ain't got the same soul
I like that old tyme rock and roll

2) seems like it was yesterday, but it was long ago...

3) on a long and lonesome highway east of Omaha you can listen to the engine moan it's...

 

[Buick Mackane]

It's gettin' near dawn, when lights close their tired eyes.

Every time I think that I'm the only one who's lonely
Someone calls on me

 

[Timbit]

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man? - Dylan

Southern man
better keep your head
Don't forget
what your good book said - Young

We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well, they're no friends of mine - Men Without Hats

Baby, let's move 'cause you know that the light here really hurts my eyes
I come from a world where the light is dim and the people not so jive - April Wine

I've been drivin' all night,
My hand's wet on the wheel
There's a voice in my head
That drives my heel - Golden Earring

Timbit

 

[Aardvark154]

"I learned the truth at seventeen"

 

[mammo]

I believe Prince had a line about "masterbating with a magazine"........

I think you mean this one:

I knew a girl named Nikki
I guess you could say she was a sex fiend
I met her in a hotel lobby
Masturbating with a magazine
She said, "How'd you like to waste some time?"
And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind

I heard once that this was voted the best opening line to a song:

We rented a truck and a semi to go - BTO, Roll On Down The Highway

Couldn't tell you what any of the other lyrics in the song are without looking them up but any tune that can start with that has got to be killer!

 

[zefroggy]

English:

"Here we are now entertain us" Kurt Cobain

French:
Il est des mots qu'on peut penser
Mais a pas dire en societé
moi je me fou de la societé
et de sa prétendue moralité
j'aimerais simplement faire l'amour avec toi

- Michel Polnareff, Faire l'amour avec toi

Translates roughly to:
There are words we can think
We shouldn't say openly
I don't care about society
and its supposed morality
I would simply want to make love to you

 

[shack]

My fav song by styx is come sail away . It;s got many great lyrics about unconditional friendships
and the fond memories they have no expectations.

[h=3]Come Sail Away Lyrics - Styx[/h]

 

[Tao]

In a darkened room
Beyond the reach of God's faith
Lies the wounded, the shattered
remains of love betrayed

SKID ROW
"In A Darkened Room"

 

[GPIDEAL]

Yeah, I think I asked a guy named Joe that once....

I love it when you talk dirty.

 

[peteeey]

Relax don't do it
When you want to go to it
Relax don't do it
When you want to come

 

[OnTheWayOut]

Ultimate driving song ...... this one has gotten me a few speeding tickets LOL

"I've been drivin' all night, my hand's wet on the wheel"

Radar Love- Golden Earring

 

[Kilgore Trout]

A few come to mind,

I was a little too tall, could have used a few pounds
Tight pants points, hardly renown
Seger


Just a small town girl livin' in a lonely world
Journey

'You've got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend.'
Dylan Positively Fourth Street

 

[shack]

All-Time Best Lyric

Sugar, oh, honey, honey
You are my candy girl
And you got me wanting you
Honey, oh, sugar, sugar
You are my candy girl
And you got me wanting you

 

[Buick Mackane]

I met a gin soaked bar-room queen in Memphis

Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields

Wake up Maggie I think I got something to say to you

 

[Trailer Park Boy]

I don't know how to sing,
I can barely play this thing,
But you never seem to mind,
And you tell me to fuck off. . .


The Reasons by The Weakerthans

 

[Buick Mackane]

I'd guess Bruce is now embarrassed by this awful lyric-
Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat

 

[Submariner]

It's been a long time since I rock and rolled.

 

[LurkingInMyTent]

Not really rock n' roll, but I still like:

Some people say a man is made outta mud,
A poor man's made outta muscle an' blood.

"16 Tons" by Merle Travis, made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford

 

[MissCroft]

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.

Great choice.

 

[basur]

Such great first lines, but, rock and roll song, first line? Hands down its:

"Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel"