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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A few by The Boss

Ond day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back....Working on a Highway

Is there a dream alive that don't come true or is there something worse...The River

Why is it at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe...Reason to Believe
"I'm sorry that you couldn't love me.
But I thank you for your time.
And I'm sure there will come a moment
when you won't be on my mind.

I hope I'll always be as honest
as you have always have been to me.
I just wish that you were feeling
that I was what you need."

Jim Lauderdale

Jeff
"Well, I was drunk the day that Momma got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
Momma got runned over by a dang ol' train."
David Allen Coe
"If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all."
-- Willie Dixon, Born Under a Bad Sign