(POLL) Best opening line in music

[Mechanical Ape]

Now, this is a thread all about how my life got flipped turned upside down.

[PonyHag714]

"A long, long time ago..."

[Gloomy Rube]

[Gloomy Rube]

since the opening line is also all the lyrics, it increases the potency

[Octavia]

"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand"

[Orange Fluffy Sheep]

This is a sad fuckin' song!

We'll be lucky if I don't bust out cryin'.

[Perrydotto]

Oh it has to be actual words and shit? That's tough

I was about to post Seven Nation Army because it starts out immediately with one of the best bass lines in music but if it has to be a words line gee I dunno

[ToastGhost]

Pony pony ass-bitch, what'chu what'chu want...

[Aramek]

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII CAN'T STAND IT, I KNOW YOU PLANNED IT, I'M GONNA SET IT STRAIGHT THIS WATERGATE!

[Aramek]

Close, close second.

[Mechanical Ape]

All aboard!

Oh it has to be actual words and shit? That's tough

It does, I think, have to be words (if only so we can quote ‘em), but the definition of word can be broad. Like, Disturbed’s “The Sickness” starts with OOH WAA-AA-AA-AA and that’s pretty much ideal as far as that song’s mission statement.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII CAN'T STAND IT, I KNOW YOU PLANNED IT, I'M GONNA SET IT STRAIGHT THIS WATERGATE!

yes

"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand"

Yes.

"A long, long time ago..."

YES

[Madeline]

since the opening line is also all the lyrics, it increases the potency

This is a strong argument

[Madeline]

“In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream”

[Gloomy Rube]

"This speech is my recital, I think it's very vital, to rock (a rhyme) that's right (on time) "It's Tricky" is the title HERE WE GO"

[PonyHag714]

"Nobody does it better..."

[Strangest Letter]

"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand"

[Vivianinatoga]

Uh-four score and seven beers ago, uh huh huh

[Vivianinatoga]

Happiness is just a word to me, and it might have meant a thing or two if I'd known the difference.

[Vivianinatoga]

What do you do with a B.A. in English?

[Vivianinatoga]

LIIIAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR! LIIIAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR!

(banana banana banana terracotta banana terracotta, terracotta pie)

[Vivianinatoga]

[10 minutes later] And the meek shall inherit the earth

[Vivianinatoga]

Bright-colored robotic space rhinoceri
that we pilot — why? ‘Cause they’re in supply."

Fuck you, look at my cool hat.

[Vivianinatoga]

In the end, we call our weevil bride;
she was arraigned in garments genocide.

[Vivianinatoga]

STAND ASIDE, EVERYONE. I TAKE LARGE STEPS.

[Vivianinatoga]

Hey shplay! Shiggity shiggity shwah hey guess what idiot? What you did today? ERRRRR wrrraong.

[Vivianinatoga]

Yeeeesssss... I feel like a bit of entertainment. Time to destroy a planet.

[ToastGhost]

Oh no, Davy's gone wild!

Err, wilder.

[Mechanical Ape]

Don't call it a comeback.