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Best Opening Lyrics: No. 12

"A candy-colored clown they call the sandman tiptoes to my room every night"
--Roy Orbison's 'In Dreams'

Beautifully haunting by itself, chillingly twisted in 'Blue Velvet.'

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Dasbest

LOL these condescending morons who pick these polls are not very good.My guess is theyre mostly gay and looking for approval. Theres far better opening lines than the ones used without having to bow down to gay basturds or child molesters.

April 20 2010 at 1:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rhyso

Orbison, Cash, and Townes Van Zandt.....these guys can wreck you with words, never fail to do it for me. All gone to the great gig in the sky now, don't think we'll see the likes of 'em again...ever

December 03 2009 at 1:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott Hudson

Roy Orbison's voice is one of the few that can move me to tears...You can always hear some shade of pain in his voice--even on the upbeat songs. Still the man, Roy is...

June 10 2009 at 2:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jim

A little bit of history, sandman were a brand of sleeping pills back int he 40's and 50's so this line makes sens just like the line " Mr sandmand bring a dream.....

December 21 2008 at 12:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Beckw

Roy Orbison... truly amazing, wonderful, and the best

August 04 2008 at 5:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dev

Ah....Roy....try to catch the PBS concert of him at a small club in NYC...backed by some of the biggest names in music...a truly amazing program

April 01 2008 at 2:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sherry

When he sang "Crying" it literally hurt ones soul.
I was so sad upon his passing. I still miss him. He was AMAZING

October 28 2007 at 4:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
acklesforlife

yo dis f in sucs

October 26 2007 at 3:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
soraya

Roy Orbison was great indeed. So are the other artists. I think we all have talents, perhaps untapped because some get lost on the way. But Roy had his place in history.

Oh, and why can't a musician have a go at a different market? (even though i do agree that country is alot easier than Rock and Roll.)

October 15 2007 at 8:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tygrusfurbelly

couldn't really appreciate this guy until I hit 28.
always thought he was some old country crooner singing about his woman cheating on him or leaving on him.
Not until i heard "Anything you want..you got it.
anything at all you got it..baaaaaaaby!" and that guitar riff following...was at that point I was hooked.
Even though I had heard the song hundreds of times before and my mother liked Roy Orbison music.
One day this song just hit me ..like an epiphany does.

September 30 2007 at 7:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply