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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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eyeballman
26 posts
 
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
fotis_k
128 posts
 
What God wants
God gets, God help us all.

And pretty much all of the other lyrics to Roger Waters 'Amused to Death' album.
jeromedny
61 posts
 
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
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sfar OP
1,758 posts
 
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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garryh
94 posts
 
Queensryche, f/ Anybody listening . . . "Think for yourself and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet."

Queensryche, f/ Jet City Woman . . . "Fortunes are lost on the women Ive seen, but without you I cant breathe!"

and the piece de la resistance . . drum roll please :)) . .

Keb Mo, f/ Give me what you got . . . "I thought I found love a year ago with a check-out girl at the grocery store

She was just lookin' for a millionaire And I was loookin' at her derierre"
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