Best opening lines

jens has plenty of candidates for the thread to be fair

It has often been my dream
To live with one who wasn't there

Life is dull, life is gray
At its best it's just OK
But I'm happy to report:
Life is also short

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"

I like second lines that are critiques of opening lines, like in "Lovergirl" by Teena Marie:

Coffee, tea, or me, baby? Touché au lait
My openin' line might be a bit passé, yes

God knows you ain’t pretty, God knows its true

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.

The room, it was lit up
Me too, I couldn't sit up.

"Midnight Through Morning," David Blue (1966)

Wayne Marshall - Orgy

"Baby, let's have an orgy"