The 15 Best Opening Lines in Rock

Great rock songs need great opening lines, right?  Well, ScreenRant.com put together a list of the 15 best. 

Here they are:

1.  “Stayin’ Alive”,  The Bee Gees: “Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk / I’m a woman’s man: no time to talk / The music loud and the women warm / I’ve been kicked around since I was born.”

2.  “Thunder Road”,  Bruce Springsteen: 

“The screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways / Like a vision, she dances across the porch as the radio plays / Roy Orbison singing for the lonely / Hey, that’s me, and I want you only / Don’t turn me home again / I just can’t face myself alone again.”

3.  “The Joker”,  The Steve Miller Band:  “Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah / Some call me the gangster of love / Some people call me Maurice / Cause I speak of the pompitous of love.”

4.  “Won’t Get Fooled Again”,  The Who:  “We’ll be fighting in the streets / With our children at our feet / And the morals that they worship will be gone / And the men who spurred us on / Sit in judgment of all wrong / They decide and the shotgun sings the song.”

5.  “Don’t Stop Believin'”,  Journey:  “Just a small-town girl / Livin’ in a lonely world / She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere”

6.  “Come As You Are”,  Nirvana:  “Come as you are, as you were / As I want you to be / As a friend, as a friend / As an old enemy / Take your time, hurry up / Choice is yours, don’t be late / Take a rest as a friend / As an old memoria.”

7.  “Let It Be”,  The Beatles:  “When I find myself in times of trouble / Mother Mary comes to me / Speaking words of wisdom / Let it be.”

8.  “Hotel California”,  The Eagles:  “On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair / Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air / Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light / My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim / I had to stop for the night.”

9.  “Sympathy for the Devil”,  The Rolling Stones:  “Please allow me to introduce myself / I’m a man of wealth and taste / I’ve been around for a long, long year / Stole many a man’s soul and faith.”

10.  “Planet Caravan”,  Black Sabbath:  “We sail through endless skies / Stars shine like eyes / The black night sighs / The Moon in silver dreams / Falls down in beams / Light of the night.”

11.  “Nothing Compares 2 U”,  Sinead O’Connor:  “It’s been seven hours and fifteen days / Since you took your love away / I go out every night and sleep all day / Since you took your love away”

12.  “Space Oddity”,  David Bowie:  “Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.”

14.  “Let’s Go Crazy”,  Prince and the Revolution:  “Dearly beloved / We are gathered here today / To get through this thing called life.”

15.  “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”,  Smashing Pumpkins:  “The world is a vampire / Sent to drain / Secret destroyers / Hold you up to the flames.”