"Hands up, who wants to die?"

-- "Sonny's Burning", Nick Cave

Though I haven't heard the album, it seems to me like Nick Cave/The Birthday Party's album Mutiny/Bad Seed seems like it has what must rank as surely one of the greatest album openers ever. Another contender might be Patti Smith's Horses, with the opening line "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine" (I haven't heard either of these albums, just so you know). I had a feeling that Cave was talented, and this only seems to confirm my hunch.

I think I ought to find inspiration from the Gita, although I am sure most of it would fly over my head.