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Best song opening lines...

Please allow to adjust my pants
So I may dance the good time dance
and put the onlookers and innocent bystanders in a trance

- Clutch, "the Mob Goes Wild"


excellent choice!

or how about this other fallon jem:

The devil and me had a falling out.
Violation of contract beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Wherever he go, whomever he meet.
He got to cross my house on the other side of the street.

--the devil and me

or this one:

Behind the Cliffside Inn,
I heard a fiddle and a mandolin,
keeping rhythm on an old washboard
and stomping on the floor.

--the soapmakers
 
"I've been the token woman all my life
The token daughter and the token wife
Now I collected tokens one by one
'Til I've saved enough to buy a gun
Now you can't get even, but you can get mad
And it's not funny, no, and it's not sad ... "

- Kirsty MacColl: Bad
 
my name is Leslie Anne Levine
my mother birthed me down a dry ravine
my mother birthed me far too soon
born at nine and dead at noon

fifteen years gone now
i still wander this parapet
and shake my rattle bone
fifteen years gone now
i still cling to the petticoats
of the girl who died with me

The Decemberists- Leslie Anne Levine