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Author Topic: Best opening lines?  (Read 3141 times)

Offlinedmg

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Re: Best opening lines?
« Reply #15 on: May 09, 2022, 11:35:07 PM »
Do you come to my shows often?  :-*
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Offlinedustyvalentino

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Re: Best opening lines?
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2022, 10:44:23 AM »
Do you come to my shows often?  :-*

Lolz. I think that was more likely to be from TK...

Back on topic:

It's a mystery to me, the game commences, for the usual fee, plus expenses.

Immediately sets the mood for the story and the song.
"You can't polish a doo-doo" - Mark Knopfler

OfflineRobson

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Re: Best opening lines?
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2022, 01:26:43 PM »
I can't forget one more:

You can tell me your troubles
I’ll listen for free
I know the way I can see by the moonlight
Clear as the day
Now come on woman, come follow me home

Offlinecannibals

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Re: Best opening lines?
« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2022, 07:48:47 PM »
The sky is crying the streets are full of tears
Rain come down wash away my fears

OfflineMagicElliott

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Re: Best opening lines?
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2022, 09:16:58 PM »
What about…….

“I always know when the mother in law is coming, the mice throw themselves in the traps”

Oh does it have to be MK?

-5.15am, snow laying all around.

(Not THAT powerful I grant you but most folk aren’t up at that time so you know it’s not going to be a normal event.) As a side note, I sometimes AM up at 5.15am as it’s my preferred “end of the day” and I always think of MK if I set my alarm for then.

-she likes a man, with a broken nose.

Intriguing one for sure.

There are more but I decided against checking the lyrics as I felt that if I had to look a song up, the opening line wouldn’t have had that much of an impact on me.

Can we do one about the worst/most underwhelming opening lines?

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Re: Best opening lines?
« Reply #20 on: May 11, 2022, 10:13:55 AM »
Go for it!
"You can't polish a doo-doo" - Mark Knopfler

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Re: Best opening lines?
« Reply #21 on: May 11, 2022, 10:09:25 PM »
The sky is crying the streets are full of tears
Rain come down wash away my fears
beaut!
any Knopfler, Floyd or Dylan will do....

 

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