Most evocative first line or sentence

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[quote name='GrammeFriday' timestamp='1443018211' post='2871497']
My brother knows Karl Marx
He met him eating mushrooms in the People's Park
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Yes!! My favourite too.

[MacDaddy]

Auschwitz the meaning of pain.

[mike f]

"It was one of those nights when you turn off the lights
And everythin' comes into view"

[color=#000000]"Dearly beloved[/color]
[color=#000000]We are gathered here today[/color]
[color=#000000]To get through this thing called life"[/color]

[color=#000000]"Help me, I think I'm falling, in love again"[/color]

[stevebasshead]

I see a dark stain
On the horizon
Set under a black cloud
That hides the sun

[tauzero]

If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?

[Dandelion]

Now, Sheriff Fatman started out
In business, a granny farmer
He was infamous for fifteen minutes
And he appeared on Panorama.

[GrammeFriday]

Hello
Hello
Hello hello
Hello
Hello
Ha ha ha ha ha!

[SICbass]

She hates my mama, she hates my daddy too
She loves to tell me how much she hates the things I do

(Lyle Lovett)

Edited September 24, 2015 by SICbass

[wateroftyne]

Here's a classic from John Prine:

Woke up this morning, put on my slippers / Walked in the kitchen, and died...

[SICbass]

Excellent.

(Note to self: check out more John Prine)

[Cyrene]

Radiohead's Nude:
"Don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen".

[kendall]

Twenty Five Whores In Room Next Door....

[Jazzneck]

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1443096205' post='2872151']
Here's a classic from John Prine:

Woke up this morning, put on my slippers / Walked in the kitchen, and died...
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Clever guy was John Prine; he wrote songs after he died?

[Oopsdabassist]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1442999793' post='2871222']
Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources,
Chased amid fusions of wonder
In moments hardly seen forgotten,
Coloured in pastures of chance
Dancing leaves cast spells of
Challenge,
Amused but real in thought,
We fled from the sea whole.
Dawn of thought transferred through moments of days undersearching
Earth
Revelaing corridors of time, provoking memories,
Disjointed but with purpose,
Craving penetrations offer links with the self-instructors sharp
And tender love
As we took to the air, a picture of distance.
Dawn of our power we amuse redescending as fast as misused
Expression,
As only to teach love as to reveal passion chasing
Late into corners,
And we danced from the ocean.
Dawn of love sent within us colours of awakening among the many
Won't to follow,
Only tunes of a different age.
As the links span our endless caresses for the freedom of life
Everlasting.
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Not often are you gonna get tales from topographic oceans quotes around here..well played sir.

Also loving the Warren Zevon lines, that guy was a classy wordsmith.

The one that sprang to mind when I read the thread header is:

So here I am once more
In the playground of the Broken hearts
One more experience, one more entry
from a diary, self penned

[Roger2611]

Midnight to six man, for the first time from Jamaica

[Rich]

I was flicking through the channels on the TV
On a Sunday in Milwaukee in the rain

[BILL POSTERS]

Old man take a look at my life I'm a lot like you.

[squire5]

Again from John Prine;

She was a level headed dancer,on the road to alcohol,
And I was just a soldier on the way to Montreal.

Spanish Pipedream.

[gelfin]

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1442962454' post='2871045']
Rush , for me.

Time , stand still - I'm not looking back but I want to look around me now.
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Plus 1. That made the hairs on my arm stand up. Often commented to mates about that line.

[seashell]

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1443090634' post='2872076']
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?
[/quote]

Some brilliant choices in this thread! I particularly love the Romeo and Juliet lines.

But this one has the tingle factor.

[gelfin]

On the hill we viewed the silence of the valley.

[tinyd]

I don't really listen to lyrics much, but I've always liked this:-

"He left no time to regret, kept his d*ck wet with his same old safe bet"

[spectoremg]

I'm travelling in some vehicle, I'm sitting in some cafe, a defector from the petty wars that shell-shock love away.

[Painy]

Opening lines to Hey Johnny Park -

Come and I'll take you under
This beautiful bruise's colors.
Everything fades in time it's true.

And later in the same song just the single line -

Eyes that can change from blind to blue.

[merello]

"The screen door slams,
Mary's dress waves,
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!'