powderfinger said:
Alright, my current favorite opening line of a song....
"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet...We sit here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it"
- Visions of Johanna, Bob Dylan
let's here some others...........
I've always been parital to this opener to Warren Zevon's Lawyers, Guns, and Money:
"I went home with the waitress
The way I always do;
How was I to know
She was with the Russians, too?"
But I think Power got it right when he picked Visions of Johanna. Dylan packed more great lines into that one song than many composers will write in their careers.
"The ghost of electricity
Howls in bones of her face,
And these visions of Johanna
Have now taken my place."
If we were selecting best stanzas instead of best opening lines, my vote would still go to Dylan for this gem in Ballad of a Thin Man:
"You hand in your ticket and you go watch the geek
He walks up to you when he hears you speak
And he says, 'How does it feel to be such a freak?'
And you say, 'Impossible!' as he hands you a bone.
Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is,
Do you, Mr. Jones?
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