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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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smw30yahoocom
154 posts
 
"Half of me is me, the other half of me is you."

From the movie "The Last Flight of Noah's Ark"
Composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre.
Sung by Alexandra Brown
jkring
17 posts
 
"There ain't no devil, just God when he's drunk"
Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine

the clouds will part and the sky cracks open
and god himself will reach his f'ing arm
through
just to push you down
just to hold you down
NIN - The Wretched

airstream is so shinny
and it's made out of aluminum
you can't tell if it's a '64
or an '81
The Vandals - Airstream
goober
4 posts
 
I could be wrong, but I'm not
Eagles - Victim of Love

Well, it just goes to show
Things are not what they seem
Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine

Accidents never happen in a perfect world
Blondie - Accidents Never Happen

And the Little Feat song that Sfar started this off with has one of the single lewdest lines in all of rock:

Hey, momma, hey, can I check your oil, allright?
Little Feat - Fat Man in the Bathtub
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friz1313
76 posts
 
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

And I second the Springsteen lone "You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright". I'm just not sure if I want to be the one who's saying that or who's told that!
papertrail
186 posts
 
Don't go mistakin' paradise as the house across the street. Bob Dylan
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