Comments on: Ten Memorable First Lines of First Songs

By: radioxstar

radioxstar — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:02:02 +0000

“We spotted the ocean”
- Toad the Wet Sprocket “Walk on the Ocean” fear

more to come…

By: juancarlos

juancarlos — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:46:57 +0000

Woke up. Didn’t choke up. Saw my AK it was broke up. Put it together like a jigsaw. Got my nine and my rambo knife off the floor.

-Black Sheep, “U mean I’m not lyrics” Black Sheep

By: victor

victor — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:59:16 +0000

Landlord…Church
Car Crash…Work
My head aches.
And silver lake.

You nerve me.

- Possum Dixon “Nerves” Possum Dixon

Richard Wagner’s letters to his lover Mathilde were a mess,
He should have quit before he had written the address,
They made love on the mezzanine,
Her husband was his friend.

- Rhett Miller “Our Love” The Instigator

By: MikeRossmassler

MikeRossmassler — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:28:10 +0000

I’d posit:

Dear, I’ll stay gold just to keep these pasts at bay

- Converge “Concubine”
(off of Jane Doe)

“Wish I could remember why it mattered to me. It doesn’t matter to me. It doesn’t matter to me anymore.”

- Okkervil River “It Ends With A Fall”
(off of Down the River of Golden Dreams)

or, probably my favorite,

“enough is enough! now beg for forgiveness, you fuck.”

- Underminded, “!Ya Basta!”
off of eleven:eleven

excellent call on the Mastodon, though

By: Jamie Antonisse

Jamie Antonisse — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:14:42 +0000

“They say there’s people starving
Living down there in the streets.
They’re lazy slobs, they ain’t got a job
I said they ain’t got enough to eat
Well Let Them Eat Rock!”

- The Upper Crust, “Let Them Eat Rock”
(from Let Them Eat Rock)

“She was born in November 1963,
The day Aldous Huxley died.”

- Sheryl Crow, “Run” (from Tuesday Night Music Club, WHAT IT’S A GOOD ALBUM)

“God damn what a brother gotta do
To get a message through
to the red white and blue”

- Ice T, “Body Count” (from Original Gangster)