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 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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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"
"Won't you scratch my itch, sweet Annie Rich and welcome me back to town?" Graham Parsons.