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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"Sometimes I find pride holds me back. Its not the way I want to be. I just couldnt help myself"

The Sweetest Ache - Tell Me How It Feels

Found on the Glass Arcade compilation released by Sarah Records release in 1992.

"Little darlin, come with me
Wont you help me share my load
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road"

Van Morrison - The Bright Side of the Road
Lots of people talk and few of them know, Soul of a woman was created below. Dazed and Confused-Led Zeppelin
I need to put my two cents in...

"I'll be with him on that midnight train to Georgia
I'd rather live in his world than live without him in mine"

Jim Weatherly/Gladys Knight and the Pips

Such love is so rare these days.

I saw teenage girls like gaudy moths a classroom's shabby butterflies
Flirt in the glow of stranded telephone boxes
Planning white lace weddings from smeared hearts
And token proclamations, rolled from stolen lipsticks
Across the razored webs of glass
Sharing cigarettes with experience with her giggling
Jealous confidantes, she faithfully traces his name
With quick bitten fingers
Through the tears of condensation that'll cry through the night
As the glancing headlights of the last bus kiss adolescence goodbye

Marillion, Warm Wet Circles, Album: Clutching AT Straws