Best song opening lines

[Hassled]

I've been mulling over this on my way to and from work and I have 3 contenders:
"She came from Greece - she had a thirst for knowledge" (Pulp). It's so intriguing - you immediately want to know more about her.
Then "Wake up, Maggie - I think I've got something to say to you". I love the hesitancy - he knows he should end things but he doesn't really want to. You can picture him mulling things over while she's asleep next to him.
And then there's "Now that you're out of my life I'm so much better." (Survivor). It's so emphatic, such a clear, confident statement. There's no hand-wringing nonsense - Beyonce is just stating a fact. As a way to open a song it's pretty damn good.

What have I forgotten? What's better?

'I see a red door and I want it painted black' (Rolling Stones)

Oh that is a good one. I need to listen to that again.

I saw the title and immediately though Of the Pulp one.

First line of Elenor Rigby

As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent, you asked for the latest party. Diamond Dogs by Bowie.

And how about “I’ve been going out with a girl, her name is Julie”

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar ...

Coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just fine ...

Just because it makes everyone go wild

"You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht..."

Feigning joy & suprise/ at the gifts we despise

The Darkness must have been reading mumsnet when they wrote their Christmas song

"Father tell me, we get what we deserve" (Kaleo - Way Down We Go)

"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together" ...All gone to look for America ..Simon and Garfunkel

'Let me take you to the place where membership's a smiling face' (Wham!)

In the time of chimpanzees I was a Monkey

Standing at the door of the Pink Flamingo crying in the rain...... (Say Hello, Wave Goodbye by Soft Cell from the 80s)

:o at The Darkness.
How had I managed to forget Human League?
I also love "Billy Ray was a preacher's son and when his daddy would visit he'd come along" - it sets a scene all on its own.

I don't believe in an interventionist god, but I know, darling, that you do. (Into My Arms - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)

All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey

“I don't believe in an interventionist God”
Bit of nick cave there! All those syllables 😁

When I look back on all the crap I learnt at High school, it’s a wonder I can think at all ..

Mum I, just killed a man......

I'm still here but yet I'm gone ....(Glenn Campbell I'm not gonna miss you, has me in floods of tears every time, its his his last song written about his suffering from Alzheimers)

"Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road" Greenday

"Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River" John Denver

I love you from the bottom of my pencil case...

‘Soon I’m thirty, I only went with your mother cos she’s dirty’. Happy Mondays

“The Mississippi delta was shining like a national guitar”, Paul Simon, Graceland. Talking about a place I have never been to and rarely thought about and yet somehow makes me feel a kind of nostalgic longing for it. Man is a genius.

Hello darkness, my old friend...

It was the third of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day........Ode to Billy Joe.