"Bury me softly in this womb" Down in a Hole-Alice in Chains

"The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves"

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

I got a letter from the government
The other day
I opened and read it
It said they were suckers
- Public Enemy, Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos

Friday night we'll be drinking Manishevitz
Going out to terrorize Goyem
-NOFX, The Brews

Found this thread while searching for something else. This is the exact line that came into my head when I saw the thread title.

Oh my, oh my, what a wretched life;
I was born on the day that my poor mama died.

"Up Jumped the Devil" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

"Faith pours from your walls, drowning your calls, I've tried to hear, you're not near..."
Badly Drawn Boy, "The Shining"

"Who took the bom?"
Le Tigre, "Deceptacon"

"And when you live it... You ask for nothing, why don't you share it?"
Broken Social Scene, "Stars and Sons"

"I'm up on the eleventh floor, And I'm watching the cruisers below"
David Bowie, "Queen Bitch"

For some strange reason, this popped into my head:

"After I had killed my wife and by the jury been acquitted"
John Wesley Harding, "Sussex Ghost Story"

"Crazy Janey and her mission man, back in the alley, tradin' hands."
Bruce Springsteen, "Spirit in the Night"

"One finger on the button
one finger up his nose
Johnny's in some cornfield
The Early Warning Blows"
Don Henley, "Them and Us"

"I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go
Walkin' with a dead man over my shoulder"
Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party"

"This is the first day of my life
Swear I was born right in the doorway." - "First Day of My Life", Bright Eyes

"Suddenly Monday appears again.
Were was the weekend? I lost it again." - "Suddenly Monday", Melanie C.

"(Shake it Up)
I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds." - "Fidelity", Regina Spektor

"Leroy, boy, is that you?"

my fav: "It's Britney, Bitch!"

Bjork..."Bachelorette"..."I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl"

Another

"McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed,
There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head"

Are you talking about Tony Asher? He said that was reality. Sometimes you stop being in love with the person you were in love with, but that doesn't change the fact that you are in love with them now.

You know what, Stuart, I LIKE YOU. You're not like the other people, here, in the trailer park.
-Dead Milkmen "Stuart"

Eligible, not too stupid
Intelligible, and cute as cupid
Knowledgeable, but not always right
Salvageable, and free for the night
-Magnetic Fields "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off"

"Sleeping is Giving in...." - Win Butler, Arcade Fire "Rebellion (lies)"

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"I saw her standin' on her front lawn
Just a twirlin' her baton
Me and her went for a ride sir
And ten innocent people died"

"Make me a boat
Away I'll float
Into the stillness of a pure blue sky
There's nothing here to hold me now
And I got no more tears to cry"

"There's a kind of a restless feeling and it pulls me from within
It sets my senses reeling and my wheels begin to spin
In the quietude of winter you can hear the wild geese cry
I will always love that sound until the day I die"

"Lido missed the boat that day he left the shack
But that was all he missed and he ain't comin' back"

"Time marches on
Time stands still
Time on my hands
Time to kill "

"We shall walk again
Down along the lane
Down the avenue
Just like we used to do
With our heads so high
Smile at the passers by
Then well softly sigh
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay"

"Everything, everything, everything, everything
In its right place, in its right place, in its right place, in its right place"

"I do not exist," we faithfully insist
sailing in our separate ships,
and in each tiny caravel -
tiring of trying, there's a necessary dying

Messes of Men by mewithoutYou

And not the opening lyrics, but a stanza I really like from their new record is my signature.

We should close the thread. This really is the best opening line to a song.

Written back when Pueblo, CO meant something. A very good song.

You sat at home
Windows tinted black
It hit you hard
and you cried so long
Life turned and wandered
Never to come back again

2 years later and nobody mentioned this one.

"I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be dropping these, mockeries, lyrically performed armed robberies"

-Inspectah Deck - Triumph

One day you're going to have to face the deep dark truthful mirror
And it's going to tell you things that I still love you too much to say.

-Deep Dark Truthful Mirror, Elvis Costello

It happened one night at 3 in the morning...the devil appeared in my studio room. And he said, "I'm your pal and I'll make you a deal...blow away all your troubles and take your soul for a toy."
-The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy, Joe Jackson

I remember the year I went to camp
I heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks
Somebody put their fingers in the President's ears
It wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's wax
-Purple Toupee, They Might Be Giants

A place .. where nobody dared to go ..

One two three four I don't wanna live no more...Gravitational Constant, Type O Negative