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We've had the weirdest (I'm a serious as cancer springs to mind) and the best first lines so what do you think is the best lyric/line/s ever?
Can be one you love for the cheese factor, something meaningful for you or something you think is just brilliant song writing.

Ill start with

She's a myth that I have to believe in. All I need to make it real is one more reason. I don't know what to do.
Slipknott-Vermillion pt 2.

Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind

Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves

The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach

Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free

Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves

Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

The final verse of 'Mr. Tambourine Man' by Bob Dylan. Not only my favorite song lyric, but also one of my favorite pieces of 20th Century American poetry.

And I need you more than want you and I want you for all time -Withica(sp) Linesman.

'The Curse Of Millhaven' by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds:

It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world

Lola - The Kinks

'There is too much confusion' Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower

'freshly fallen silent shroud of snow' I Am a Rock Simon and Gafunkle

That would, of course, be 'All Along The Watchtower' by Bob Dylan.

That last line of that song, 'Two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl' always makes me think of 9/11.

Sorry should of know it was the lyrical genius that is Bob Dylan

There's a killer on the road.
His brain is squirming like a toad.

Neil Young, Riders on the Storm

On the National Express, there's a jolly hostess selling crisps and tea
She'll provide you with drinks and theatrical winks for a sky-high fee
Mini-skirts were in style when she walked down the aisle back in '63
But it's hard to get by when your arse is the size of a small countreeeeee

From the sublime National Express by the Divine Comedy.

Rizzle Kicks....'and I might just join the mile high club, only problem being that I couldn't give a flying fuck'

<profound>

Maria... Say it loud and there's music playing
Say it soft and it's almost like praying.

"Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then"

"Mustn't moan, mustn't grumble/ Help yourself to some apple crumble" ABC

"Maybe it was over when she pushed me out the Rover at full speed, maybe baby..." AHA

Mmm, sorry but 'Riders On The Storm' is The Doors, not Neil Young.

'Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong'
'Don't know where you got those Bette Davis knees'

Both from Industrial Disease - Dire Straits

'And if the homework brings you down then we'll throw it on the fire and take the car downtown' - kooks - Bowie

I'm invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone. Love it and only recently got the meaning!! Squeeze, 'cool for cats', actually love most of their lyrics, also 'up the junction' - I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from clapham

'I'm never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm'
Careless whisper by George Michael

This is the day, your life will surely change
This is the day that things fall into place.

This is the day- The The

(sing it to myself every morning)

Bury all your secrets in my skin,
Come away with innocence
and leave me with my sins.

Slipknot - Snuff

I love the lyrics of the whole song but the opening line is my favourite.

did you exchange a walk on part in a war, for a lead role in a cage

pink floyd

Happiness ain't at the end of the road... Happiness IS the road

Marillion - Happiness is the Road (title track from their 2008 album)

You come home late and you come home early
You come home big when you're feeling small
You come home straight and you come home curly
Sometimes you don't come home at all

Speed of the sound of loneliness
Nanci Griffith (and John Prine, and probably others)

(I can't remember the exact first bit but then it goes...)
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry and you want to die.

Smiths, How Soon Is Now.

Cheery!

I love this line from the Verve :

Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life
Try to make ends meet
You're a slave to money then you die