For me, this is an easy one. Even though I have a love/hate relation with this artist & his music & his singing, the opening line of "Born To Run" just absolutely fucking rules😎
"In the days we sweat it out on the streets/of a runaway American dream..."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu4_zVxmufY&pp=ygUdYm9ybiB0byBydW4gYnJ1Y2Ugc3ByaW5nc3RlZW4%3D
Your pick?
Gordon Lightfoot wrote so many great opening lines to his songs:
1) "I can see her lying back in her satin dress in a room where you do what you don't confess." ("Sundown")
2) "The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee." ("The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald")
I also love this one from David Gates and Bread:
"If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?" ("If")
ELP - Still You Turn Me On
"Do you wanna be an angel, do you wanna be a star, do you wanna play some magic, on my guitar?"
"You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack..."
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
ngl the opening to Don't Stop Believin' was awesome a million listens ago... I don't need to hear it 8 times a day...
shareThere must be some kinda way out of here / Said the joker to the thief...
shareWake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you.
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