Best First Lines

[Mr. Tea]

Wtf

Not a lyric, he's just talking to you.

 

[version]

And who can ever forget this one?

 

[Corpsey]

I ain't a killer but don't push me, revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting pussy

 

[version]

Strange times in Casablanca

 

[Corpsey]

Now I know y'all be lovin' this shit right here
L-I-M-P Bizkit is right here

 

[version]

The Russian bear is hungry, he's dancing in his chains

 

[kid charlemagne]

educate this fool @kid charlemagne

Sometimes you're better off dead.

 

[kid charlemagne]

ghostface's boisterous delivery makes these opening lines feel like a smack in the face

 

[okzharp]

I don't believe in an interventionist God

 

[IdleRich]

I don't believe in an interventionist God

OK that's Nick Cave aint it?

I should have probably put some criteria about how you should say why the lines are good... like that Mondays one I started with is so fucking disrespectful and sleazy that it just stands out to me.... but let's see some justification from you lot now.

 

[okzharp]

how can i be homophobic? my bitch is gay

this one made me smile when i first heard it... the disinterested-yet-mildly-exasperated rhetorically-questioning rebuttal of the (presumably online) unheard accusation that he's homophobic, followed by the knowingly-provocative misogynistic term of endearment to describe his gay girlfriend as evidence to support the rebuttal... it's a wild ride in 8 words. the rest of the song is massively forgettable.

 

[okzharp]

OK that's Nick Cave aint it?

I should have probably put some criteria about how you should say why the lines are good... like that Mondays one I started with is so fucking disrespectful and sleazy that it just stands out to me.... but let's see some justification from you lot now.

yeah. and it's followed by "but I know darlin that you do"

again, it made me smile when i first heard it because it's so unpoetic and yet disarmingly grandiose and the delivery makes it seem sleazy, like 'darlin' has risked offending her god by being with him, or something like that.

 

[IdleRich]

yeah. and it's followed by "but I know darlin that you do"

again, it made me smile when i first heard it because it's so unpoetic and yet disarmingly grandiose and the delivery makes it seem sleazy, like 'darlin' has risked offending her god by being with him, or something like that.

Yeah that's a good description I'd say, it's really an ungainly and strange line and that's what sort of ends up making it good.

 

[version]

My name's Wiley I come from

 

[0bleak]

OK that's Nick Cave aint it?

I should have probably put some criteria about how you should say why the lines are good... like that Mondays one I started with is so fucking disrespectful and sleazy that it just stands out to me.... but let's see some justification from you lot now.

do I really need to justify the first line from the first song of what became one of the most infamous and controversial albums of all time?

 

[IdleRich]

Yes

 

[IdleRich]

Unless you want to appeal to popularity or something.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Is there anybody there?

Yeah!

 

[william_kent]

my best first line was a bag of blue pills that the seller assured us was robbed from a chemist by renting the flat above in a false name and by use of a pickaxe they made an entry point through the floor down into a wonderland of pharmaceuticals - we bought the blue speed diet pills off a 'soul boy" who was in on the caper and chopped them up in my bedroom and took large snorts and then our noses exploded with blood but the rush was almost worth it - that was my introduction to the wonders of amphetamine

 

[Corpsey]

Well she was just 17, you know what I mean