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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"Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime", Mose Allison
"Nobody loves me but my momma, and she might be jiving too" B.B. King
"My father sold chicken medicine that farmers would buy" Nashville soundtrack
"But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference and the promise of an early bed"

Elvis Costello - "Radio Radio"
But you tease, and you flirt
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can please yourself but somebodys gonna get it
Elvis Costello, "Green Shirt.
Waits at the window, wearing the face
that she keeps in a jar by the door

(Paul and John)

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I'm bad. I'm bad. You know it.

(Michael Jackson, and we didn't know it then but we do now)

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And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mould a new reality
Closer to the Heart

(Rush, Neil Peart)

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You know that we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl

(yeah we guessed as much, Madonna)

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I wana..I wana..ziga zig ahhh...

(yeah don't we all wish we could bend it like Beckham)

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We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control...

(Pink Floyd)

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Her mind is Tiffany twisted
She's got the Mercedes bends
She's got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
That she calls friends

(Eagles)