Listened to eels "PS: You Rock My World" yesterday and got thinking about great opening lines in songs. "I was at a funeral the day I realised I wanted to spend my life with you..." Got a favourite opening line?

Not just from a song but the opening line to the second Tom McRae record is "Welcome back said the voice on the Radio" which I really like.

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey!

Hmmm... 'I should just get out of here and start driving south on Interstate 5, But I need to stay near In case you suddenly remember that I'm alive' Interstate 5 - The Wedding Present I think everyone has felt like that at some point.

Nice. SFA - Cityscape Skybaby - "She came in smelling of cabbages..." I think everyone has felt like that at some point.

hahahaha!!! Dude you crack me up for real!!!!

"Ive been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand, Curve these sensations, make me feel the pleasures of a normal man" Joy Divison - Disorder, Unknown pleasures

All I need is a coupla hundred thousand people like you and my TV show (watch this space) will be the talk of water coolers everywhere.

the opening line to In Utero always comes back to me "Teenaged angst has paid off well / now I'm bored and old"

"I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl Whose still around the morning after." - Say Yes / Elliott Smith

we were lovers we were kissers we were holders of hands we were make believers the stills

What's with these homies dissin' my girl? Why do they gotta front?

Ha! Was at Weezer with my mate and he said that those lines are the only reason he needs to love Weezer.

'WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' 'Angel Of Death' Slayer

"Little Johnny's sad and f**ked, First he jumped and then he looked" Come Together by Spiritualized

Obvious but goodies non the less... 'Take me out tonight Where there's music and there's people And they're young and alive' There is a light that never goes out - The Smiths 'Are teenage dreams so hard to beat, Every time she walks down the street.' Teenage Kicks - The Undertones

Witless, humorless conversation Has filled me up like an old gas station I'm wallowing in a pool of gasoline Hot Hot Heat

"Johnny's in the basement,mixing up the medicine, I'm on the pavement thinkin' 'bout the government..." Bob Dylan-Subteranean Homesick Blues

"well they blew up the chickenman in philly last night...." (springsteen, 'atlantic city')

"Nancy is a waif, a piece of cake, a blade of grass. Nancy takes it up the ass" Sun City Girls-Nancy Reagan. So i hear these chaps are supporting Devendra Banhart. Deadly