He is not your run of the mill garden variety Alabama country fare
― flappy bird, Monday, 11 December 2017 07:41 (six years ago) link
every night i tell myself i am the cosmosi am the windbut that don't get you back again
― cwkiii, Thursday, 28 May 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
Feels like I've been through a washing machine
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 03:51 (one year ago) link
There were 87 Advil in the bottle now there's 30 left, I ate 47 so what happened to the other 10?
it's not music but the opening line to Forrest McNeil's Review is one of the best:
"Life...it's literally all we have. But is it any good?"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
Son, I'm 30I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty
― as a lyricist he is from hell (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 22:38 (seven months ago) link
Teenage angst has paid off wellNow I'm bored and old
― alpine static, Thursday, 16 November 2023 08:28 (six months ago) link
life's a nightmare, i can't stand it
― Fizzles, Thursday, 16 November 2023 08:55 (six months ago) link
Jens Lekman isn't on my mind or radar all that much, but he certainly his regarding the question of best opening lines:
Yeah I got busted.So I used my one phone callto dedicatea song to you on the radio
― Valentijn, Thursday, 16 November 2023 09:47 (six months ago) link
(he certainly is)
― Valentijn, Thursday, 16 November 2023 09:48 (six months ago) link
I love that Jens song, but David Berman should get most of the credit there, and for the chorus too, because those lyrics are based on this bit of Berman's poem "Governors on Sominex":
P.K. was in the precinct house, using his one phone callto dedicate a song to Tammy, for she was the lightby which he traveled into this and that
iirc one of Jens's friends had included these lines (uncredited) in a letter to him, and Jens paraphrased them in the song thinking his friend had written them.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 16 November 2023 19:07 (six months ago) link
jens has plenty of candidates for the thread to be fair
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 16 November 2023 20:05 (six months ago) link
It has often been my dreamTo live with one who wasn't there
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 18 November 2023 03:17 (six months ago) link
Life is dull, life is grayAt its best it's just OKBut I'm happy to report:Life is also short
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Saturday, 18 November 2023 03:34 (six months ago) link
I like opening lines that set the scene.
"You opened my mail apart at the seams / Now you know I live beyond my means"
"The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68 and he told me / all romantics meet the same fate some day / Cynical and drink and boring someone in some dark café"
"I got a letter from the government the other day / I opened and read it / It said they were suckers / They wanted me for their army or whatever"
― Alba, Saturday, 13 April 2024 20:16 (two months ago) link
I like second lines that are critiques of opening lines, like in "Lovergirl" by Teena Marie:
Coffee, tea, or me, baby? Touché au laitMy openin' line might be a bit passé, yes
― henry s, Sunday, 14 April 2024 00:16 (two months ago) link
God knows you ain’t pretty, God knows its true
― bbq, Sunday, 14 April 2024 03:18 (two months ago) link
I think the first 5 seconds of Destroyer's Streethawk are some of the best opening seconds of any album. You could turn it off right there and have a clear idea of what the next 40 minutes are going to entail.
― H.P, Sunday, 14 April 2024 03:33 (two months ago) link
The room, it was lit upMe too, I couldn't sit up.
"Midnight Through Morning," David Blue (1966)
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 May 2024 20:35 (four weeks ago) link
Wayne Marshall - Orgy
"Baby, let's have an orgy"
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 19 May 2024 16:58 (three weeks ago) link