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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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alrau1
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"I can't quit you baby
But I'm gonna have to put you down for a while"

"I Can't Quit You Baby" by Willie Dixon (and performed by probably every blues singer in the universe, including Willie himself, Otis Rush, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and Led Zep
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alrau1
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I'm cheating a little by using an album title:

"You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw" by Spooky Tooth
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alrau1
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"When it's cold outside I like to sleep
With a blanket on my ass
Don't want to feel the wind blow
I don't want my face to chap"

"Rangers at Midnight"--Crack The Sky
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"My head is my only house when it rains." Captain Beefheart. Could very well have got that twisted up but that's how it works for me in memory. Actually not sure if it's a lyric or a song title. Either way - words to live by.

Jsonic - I second your choice of that lyric from Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue".
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Well, John the Baptist after torturing a thief
Looks up at his hero the Commander-in-Chief
Saying, "Tell me great hero, but please make it brief
Is there a hole for me to get sick in ?"

The Commander-in-Chief answers him while chasing a fly
Saying, "Death to all those who would whimper and cry"
And dropping a bar bell he points to the sky
Saying, "The sun's not yellow it's chicken."

- Bob Dylan, "Tombstone Blues"
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