Best lines in a song


There has been a long-running thread here of 'Best quotes' but maybe it would be interesting to find out folks' favorite lines from songs. To keep it on some sort of track, let's have a few ground rules.

- Attribution is required, who sang it (or wrote it) and where can we hear it?
- Shorter is better, four lines maximum, a verse. These should be words of wisdom that can be summoned for inspiration in social emergencies.
- If you're an opera fan, you're welcome to post in Italian, just don't expect many high fives from the monolingual among us.

I'll throw out a couple for starters:

When you're rockin' and a rollin' you can't hear your momma call.
Little Richard - Good Golly, Miss Molly

All I want in this life of mine is some good clean fun.
All I want in this life and time is some hit and run.
Little Feat - Fat Man in the Bathtub
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"Where do you come from, young man?"
"I come from The Bronx, your honor."
"I sentence you to 15 years!"

The Judge Sure is Funky--J. Geils Band

(And I'm originally from there, too....)
"They'd like to make it
With my big black dog,
But they just
Don't know how to ask"

Baby Ice Dog--Blue Oyster Cult
"Now I ain't what
You call a city slicker
My claim to fame's
To be a slitty licker"

"Pandora's Box"--Aerosmith
"But ev'ry time Pandora comes my way
I get high, can't explain the sensation
To get it on I've got to watch what I say
Or I'll catch hell from womens' liberation"

"Pandora's Box" (continued)--Aerosmith
"Well I called the TV doctor
He came over right away
He said to see what he could do he'd have to haul my tube away
I said 'No that will never do
If you don't get the picture
I'm gonna do some work on you!'"

TV Mama--Johnny Winter
"I can't quit you baby
But I'm gonna have to put you down for a while"

"I Can't Quit You Baby" by Willie Dixon (and performed by probably every blues singer in the universe, including Willie himself, Otis Rush, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and Led Zep
I'm cheating a little by using an album title:

"You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw" by Spooky Tooth
"When it's cold outside I like to sleep
With a blanket on my ass
Don't want to feel the wind blow
I don't want my face to chap"

"Rangers at Midnight"--Crack The Sky
"It's not the side effects of the cocaine,
I'm thinking that it must be love"

David Bowie