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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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sfar OP
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Pull into the driveway, toss it in park
Stare out of the windshield, out into the world
It was all for the love of a wayward girl
Who left you with a second-place smile and a broken heart

There’s nothing, really, that you can do
Put your hands in your pockets and try to get through
the distance between the daylight and the dark

Mary Gauthier - Between Daylight and the Dark
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lou_setriodes
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"See me, feel me, touch me, heal me"
THE WHO / WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT

"A little indian brave before he was ten,
Played wargames in the woods with his indian friends
And he built up a dream that when he grew up
He would be a fearless warrior indian chief
Many moons past and more the dream grew strong until
Tomorrow he would sing his first warsong and fight his first battle
But something went wrong, surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night

And so castles made of sand melts into the sea, eventually"
JIMI HENDRIX / CASTLES MADE OF SAND



runnin
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I heard this by chance earlier this week and it stuck with me. The song is For These Times, Martina Mcbride:

And freedom is a word
Some cry out and some whisper
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