Many of the best opening lyrics do what they set out to accomplish — start a song in the greatest way possible. Since they are the first thing we hear, they can either lower or raise the rest of the song into new leagues. When they do their jobs well, opening lyrics can earn legendary status and become much more popular than the rest of the song. In the case of the best opening lyrics of all time, they have left a mark on the music industry and sometimes earned the status of becoming memes.
There are a lot of songs that you can listen to. Popular song lyrics, especially the opening lines, save us time searching for them. When you know the lines of a song, you just need to google it or ask someone if they recognize the lyrics. Thus, for an opening lyric to become the best, it has to be recognizable. And, when that recognition becomes too big, memes are made out of it. There is a small list of famous lyrics that are so good that memes are created from them. The best example is Never Gonna Give You Up. The opening line of this song is easily recognized and has become a subject of memes, jokes, and so on.
When it comes to the best song lyrics that start with a bang, it’s best to look for them with the help of the internet. User herecomesacandle on the popular AskReddit group decided to ask a question every music listener was asking — “What’s the greatest opening lyrics to a song that you’ve ever heard?” In the list below, we have compiled the best answers from users that might make you look up the songs themselves. Since some are more recognizable, upvote the lyrics that you like too. Share your opinions on these lyrics in the comments below.
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guiltystranger94 said:
"Hello, darkness my old friend."
freddythepole19 replied:
"Anything by Paul Simon, basically. "I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles such are promises" continues to haunt me."
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls". Paul Simon
"As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left."
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
"I've paid my dues, time after time."
"So, so you think you can tell Heaven from hell?"
"If you got one chance, or one opportunity, to get everything you ever wanted, in one moment, would you capture it, or let it slip."
"I walk a lonely road The only one that I have ever known Don't know where it goes But it's home to me, and I walk alone."
One of my favourite songs. I always thought it was about depression.
"Hello, is there anybody in there?"
Syd Barrett inspired haunting, beautiful songs. "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl years after year".
"When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me speaking words of wisdom: 'Let it be.'"
"At first I was afraid, I was petrified. Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side."
But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong and I grew STRONG
"I can feel it coming in the air tonight."
"I hurt myself today, To see if I still feel I focus on the pain, The only thing that's real."
CanuckSalaryman said:
"Please allow me to introduce myself.
I'm a man of wealth and taste.
I've been around for a long, long year.
Stole many a man's souls to waste."
KawhiComeBack replied:
"This might be my favorite Stones song just because of the pure audacity of Mick Jagger to write about how he is the devil, but a sophisticated one of wealth and taste.
No one else could sing that song."
Jagger writes most of the Stones lyrics. I rate him right up there with Bob Dylan. " I was born in a crossfire hurricane, and I howled at my ma in the driving rain. "
"Tired of being what you want me to be."
I've become so NUMB, I can't feel you there. Become so tired, so much more aware. I'm becoming this, all I want to do. Is be more like me and be less like you! Live forever, Chester Bennington. Even in death, you live within us all.
"Tonightttt I’m gonna have myselffff a real good time, I feel alive I Iiiii and the worldddd will turn it inside out aaa and float it around in ecstasy."
SO DON'T STOP ME NOW don't stop me cause I'm having a good time having a good time
"Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day..."
"SHOT THROUGH THE HEART AND YOU'RE TO BLAME DARLING YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME."
"Oh, my, God Becky, look at her butt."
Now imagine an adorable 2 year old girl spouting this off in a crowded grocery store. And imagine being torn between wanting to hide....and wanting to laugh.
"'We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow!'"
"There is a house in New Orleans."
This is a traditional folk song possibly written by Turner/Martin. The definitive arrangement was by Dave Van Ronk and was ripped off and recorded by Bob Dylan. The Animals' cover is the most well-known and widely-heard rendition.
ItTookTime said:
"There must be some kinda way out of here / Said the Joker to the Thief."
LeBigFish666 replied:
"Dylan is in with a shout for a lot of his songs here,
Desolation Row 'They're selling postcards of the hanging, and painting the passports brown.'
Visions of Johanna 'Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be quiet.'
Mr. Tambourine Man 'Though I know that evenings empire has returned into sand, vanished from my hand, Left me blindly here to stand, but still not sleeping.'"
"Ooga-chaka, ooga-ooga
Ooga-chaka, ooga-ooga
Ooga-chaka, ooga-ooga
Ooga-chaka, ooga-ooga."
"I read the news today, oh boy."
User said:
"Carry on my wayward son."
flowrider_ replied:
"Every Supernatural fan is going crazy rn."
"Take me down to the Paradise City where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Oh, won’t you please take me homeeeeee."
Axl rose TURNS ME ON with the hey-hey-hey-hey he does on Knockin on Heavens Door... always been attracted to the trainwrecks
"We’re no strangers to love, you know the rules and so do I."
"Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white."
"And in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view, of the crumbling difference between wrong and right". Beautiful!
"Wake up! Grab a brush and put a little makeup!"
Also has one of the rawest lines of any chorus I've heard: "Why cry when angels deserve to die?"
Catsushigo said:
"In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey."
DBoaty replied:
"The song sounds like an AI text generator wrote it but goddamn if it isn’t catchy."
"The first hit on the Circle of Life from The Lion King.
'Nants ingonyama bagithi baba Sithi uhm ingonyama Nants ingonyama bagithi baba Sithi uhhmm ingonyama Ingonyama Siyo Nqoba Ingonyama.'"
It sounds so wonderful until you realize the lyrics are literally "There's a lion. Yep, it's a lion."
"That’s great it starts with an earthquake, birds snakes, and airplanes. Lenny Bruce is not afraid."
"I said a Hip, Hop, a Hippy to the Hippy the Hip Hip a Hop and you don't stop a-rockin' to the bang bang boogie said up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogidy beat."
"'Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.'"
"Yo, this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down!"
And I'd like to take a minute Just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air
User said:
"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand."
Resolute002 replied:
"Funny story, years ago my dad's band covered this song and they had a humongous band-destroying fight because the band insisted the lyric was "And his hair was purple" and my dad was sure it was 'And his hair was perfect.'"
"The world is a vampire."
"SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME."
"I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping, while my guitar gently weeps."
Aumgn said:
"Old man, look at my life - I'm a lot like you were."
tdelbert replied:
"This song has been on repeat for the last few weeks. The state of the world and USA has put me in a Neil Young protest song kind of mood."
"Early in the mornin', risin' to the street. Light me up that cigarette and I'll strap shoes on my feet."
"I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah, where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda, S-O-D-A, soda..."
"I hate every ape I see from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z."
"You're such an inspiration for the ways that I will never ever choose to be."
"'Teenage angst has paid off well, now I’m bored and old.'
Nirvana kicking off In Utero with Serve the Servants."
"Really don't mind if you sit this one out."
Ian Anderson would have been a wonderful minstrel in the Middle Ages
Picklelerner said:
"CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES."
OrganicHearing replied:
"CUT MY LIFE INTO PIZZA THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK."
Found a hilarious censored version on YouTube once. "**** My life into pieces, this is my last resort. ****, No breathing, don't give a **** if I **** my arm ****"
6inchfunsize said:
"It's Britney b***h."
menow555 replied:
"Tacky, trashy glorious alliteration. Perfection!"
Is it a problem that I got excited when i saw a Britney song on here cause I feel like it's a problem
"Am I loud and clear, or am I breaking up?
Am I still your charm, or am I just bad luck?
Are we getting closer, or are we just getting more lost?"
"Dear Slim, I wrote you but still ain't calling."
"This bed is on fire with passionate love. The neighbors complain about noises above, but she only comes when she's on top."
"Ha ha ha ha ha YO, I’LL TELL YOU WHAT I WANT WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT!"
User said:
"I wanna be the very best."
AnastasiaSheppard replied:
"This one wins because my mind is trying to sing all the other lyrics in this tune now."
also nothing by Iggy and the Stooges? " I'm a streetwalkin' cheetah with a heart full of napalm".
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"When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come? With your hands on your head, or on the trigger of your gun?" The Guns of Brixton by The Clash
also nothing by Iggy and the Stooges? " I'm a streetwalkin' cheetah with a heart full of napalm".
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