Best Opening Track on an Album

Mr. Shadow

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Pushing through the market square
So many mothers crying
News had just come over
We had five years left to sigh in
News guy wept when he told us
Earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet
Then I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons, and TVs
My brain hurt like a warehouse
It had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things
To store everything in there

And all the fat-skinny people
And all the tall-short people
All the nobody people and all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people
A girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't pulled her off
I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And a ***** threw up at the sight of that

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor
Drinking milkshakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this song

And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

We got five years, stuck on my eyes
We got five years, what a surprise
We got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We got five years, that's all we've got
 
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There are a lot of albums with outstanding opening tracks. I will start with my favorite band, Aerosmith.


The opening track to the Rocks album:

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Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Which of course set the mood for the rest of the album.

When I first heard it I thought the devil was going to come up through the floor of my bedroom, snatch me up and drag me through the seven gates of hell!!!!!!!!
 

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