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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I pity all you working stiffs, living wondering what if, what if someday I were free?
Barenaked Ladies
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you might find
You get what you need

Another way of describing this crazy hobby...

JC
What God wants
God gets, God help us all.

And pretty much all of the other lyrics to Roger Waters 'Amused to Death' album.
I got a letter from the government
The other day
I opened and read it
It said they were suckers

Public Enemy
"Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
The mention of B.B. King made me remember these lines by the late Steve Goodman:

My baby came to me this morning
And said I'm kinda confused
She said, "If me and B.B. King was both drownin',
Which one would you choose?"

I said, "Oh, baby,"
I said, "Oh, baby,"
I said, "Oh, baby,
Baby, I ain't never heard you play no blues!"
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