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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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jamscience
95 posts
 

"This is what you want...This is what you get"

Songs : Bad Life / The Order of Death
Album/CD : This is what you want...This is what you get
Artist : P.I.L.
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"Disappointed
Promises
Promises
Old tired
Worn out second hand sentences
One thing
With you is certain
You’re a really sad person
So sad

Disappointed a few people
When friendship reared its ugly head
Disappointed a few people
Well, isn't that what friends are for"

Song : Disappointed
Album/CD : 9
Artist : P.I.L.
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"Is there a flame in the dark?
is there a bright heart star?
These creatures look the same now
We freeze wherever we are
We wake alone in the blackness
We sleep whenever we fall
One dream all around us
This big hush infects us all"

Song : This Big Hush
Album/CD : Oil and Gold
Artist : Shriekback
ait
480 posts
 
She had the face of an angel,
smiling with sin,
the body of Venus, with arms

AC/DC - Touch too Much
ecruz
402 posts
 
"Please ignore, that you found me on the floor, trying on your camisole"
Barenaked Ladies

"I pity all you working stiffs, living wondering what if, what if someday I were free"
Barenaked Ladies

"I'm only hanging on, to watch you go down...my love"
U2

"You can swallow or you can spit, you can throw it up or choke on it"
U2
john_fink
140 posts
 
...dropping a barbell he points to the sky, the sun's not yellow it's chicken. Dylan
ross2
1 posts
 
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you might get what you need"

Rolling Stones - Let it bleed album
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