What are your favourite opening lines of songs?

[dark water]

Greetings,

I'm currently listening to BBC Radio 6 who are doing a show about their listeners' favourite opening lines from songs, so I thought I'd nab the idea for us here at KVR too!

So which songs' first line (or couple of opening lines) do you like or think humorous / clever / interesting?

I'll kick things off with "Pablo Picasso" by John Cale / Jonathan Richman:

Well some people try to pick up girls and get called assholes


Cheers

[ariston]

The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves...

[thecontrolcentre]

"I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving,
England is mine
It owes me a living" - Morrissey

[foosnark]

I'll take back my piñata, it's wasted on you

[fese]

“They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within.”

[fese]

“Well Frank settled down in the valley
And he hung his wild years
On a nail that he drove through his wife’s forehead”

[hersoot]

Spotcheck Billy got down on his hands and knees. He said, "Hey mama, hey, let me check your oil all right?"

[Aleatoriac]

"I've got sunshine in my stomach..."

[donkey tugger]

"Son, I'm 30. I only went with your mother cos she's dirty."

[Gamma-UT]

"The bugger in the short sleeves f**ked my wife."

[vurt]

i am angry
i am ill
and im as ugly as sin
my irritability keeps me alive and kicking

[vurt]

theres a way i feel right now
wish youd help me dont know how
we're all nuts so who helps who?
some help when no ones got a clue.

[cryophonik]

So typical, a battle of wits
and I've come half prepared
-Trashcan Sinatras

* I could fill this thread with the opening lyrics of every single song Frank Reader has ever written

[Sparky77]

I never seen you looking so bad my funky one, you tell me that your superfine mind has come undone

[AnX]

"You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you"