Readers' Best Opening Lyrics: No. 4

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Readers' Best Opening Lyrics: No. 4

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"The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves"
--Bruce Springsteen's 'Thunder Road'

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Candaceat 3-18-2008

This entire song is great. I don't care what the haters say, this is a GREAT opening line.

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lhkantat 9-22-2008

what makes this a great opening line is:
1) It makes you want to hear more - you are hooked about the fate of these people and
2)The rhythm of the words, especially leading into the next line, "like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays".

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Maksbopat 8-27-2007

the man hurts me....

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Steveat 8-27-2007

At number four this seems way out of place, It always seems like whoever puts these things together always have a Springstein lover and then something like this gets way overrated. I would not put this in the top 25, and I don't think it would be his best example, how about the start of born to run his break out hit? Or Born in the USA?

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JIMat 8-27-2007

Best of Bruce....although Jungleland and Rosalita are right there...sorry all you younger fans...don't know what you missed!

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soldrntxat 8-27-2007

absolutely one of the best

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F Lonewolfat 8-28-2007

Not even the best of Springsteen, who I always thought was over-rated. Two better ones spring right to mind: "I had a wife & kids in Baltimore, Jack, I went out for a ride & I never went back" (Hungry Hearts)"Take me now baby here as I am, pull me close try and understand, desire is the hunger is the fire I breath, love is the banquet on which we feed" (Because the Night) Of course Patti Smith did it better than Bruce ever could.

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Terryat 8-28-2007

Gee, number four and they couldn't even get it right. Commonly thought to be 'Mary's dress waves' the correct lyric is 'Mary's dress sways.'

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Pixieat 8-28-2007

i liked jersey girl and a few others of his. not a fan and now that he's become a radical anti american, i don't think he should be listed here. this is america, i want american songs sung by people that love america. and too, he's not the humble guy that he was when he first started out. i think he's gone sour, toss him and his songs in the garbage.

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shadyat 8-28-2007

hey pixie,
tom waits wrote jersey girl. just sayin.

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Ledat 8-28-2007

One of the all time great songs. And only an ignorant fool would say that Bruce is anti-American

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KDat 8-28-2007

SWAYS? HAHAHAHAHA! ...oh, yeah, and HUNGRY HEART? How old ARE you??? Quit making ignorant comments about a man you never got the pleasure to see - when he sang songs like this! Go back and listen to what is considered 'music' today - or are you a Disco lover?

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Eiat 8-28-2007

The last line of this song is the best... "It's a town full of losers, I'm pulling out of here to win"

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swimmerat 8-30-2007

so, i am 15 and my parents raised me on pretty much nothing but the Boss. Greatest artist of all time, and this is his BEST song, hands down. he is defanatly NOT anti american, and anyone who didnt realize he is oppinonated, has obviously never listened to the words of Born In the USA. and, to the people who commented about the line being wrong, according to his album(not the cd, the album) the line is as listed.

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Diggerat 8-30-2007

BRUUUUUUCE!

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Pieat 10-08-2007

I like The Boss, but I don't think I'd pick this for his best opening lyric

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Libbyat 10-20-2007

I am 13 and I was raised listening to BRUCEE! I have seen him 4 times in convert and he is an unbelievable performer! People that say he is anti-american are wrong. Bruce loves this country but he realizes like many other people that there are faults here and bad things that happen in government, and other places. This is probably in my top 5 of favorite bruce songs! I love the opening lyric! Thanks for putting Bruce on this list!

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fernat 10-23-2007

No ho ho ho ho.....get some people who really know their music history please:

Sandy--the fireworks are hailing over Little Eden tonight
forcing a light into all those stoney faces left stranded on this warm July.

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aleyseat 11-18-2007

iwas born way after this song came out but im still in love with it

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