Favourite/brilliant opening line to a song

Have you ever been close to tragedy
Or been close to folks who have?

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I passed out on the 14th floor
The CPR was so erotic

(more Silver Jews)

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Your clean living, clear eyed, clever level headed brother, says he’ll put all the screws upon your newest lover.

Brutal and timely beginning to The Clash’s take on oppressive Government policy:

‘Taking off his turban, they said “Is this man a Jew?”; They’re working for The Clampdown.’

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Slight bowel movements preceded the bloodless coup

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‘ALL MEN ARE EVIL EXCEPT MY BOYFRIEND’

YOU SAY I NEED A JOB, I’VE GOT MY OWN BUSINESS, YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT I DO? NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS.

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“I’ve been in this town so long that back in the city I’ve been taken for lost and gone and unknown for a long long time”

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I’m the same as I was when I was 6 years old,
And oh my God I feel so damn old,
I don’t really feel anything

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Jesus died for somebody’s sins,
But not mine

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Where’s the paper bag that holds the liquor
Just in case I
Feel the need to puke

(Even MORE Silver Jews)

“We’re cutting an album, right,
and if the critics wanna fight, I’ll fight”

Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog where no one notices the contrast of white-on-white.

Hold on. Hold on to yourself. For this is gonna hurt like hell.

I NEVER PROMISED YOU SHIT!

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If twenty therapists want to tempt me with their tit rings
They should know I own a werewolf and the sense to use it

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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life…

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I’ve been messed up in my head,
Since I finished watching Threads

Christine by Martha

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Damn, you beat me to it!

People not saying who these are by: please say who these are by.

Edit: Polite request by james chance and the contortions

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We are private detectives onward back from a musical pilgrimage
Working under the name of The Fall

I GOT ANOTHER CONFESSION TO MAKE

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