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 smoke 2 joints in peacetime, Ismoke 2 joints in war, I smoke 2 joints before I smoke 2 joints and then I smoke 2 more. Or something like that.
If the music makes ya move, cause you can dig the groove, then groove on, groove on... Isaac Hayes
"I can’t remember the reason I woke up this morning;
Maybe awake is what’s left at the end of a dream.
Not enough coffee anywhere to open the blinds
on Babylon"

from "On the Blank Generation"
by Little Jack Melody
"I've been downhearted, baby--ever since the day we met"--B.B. King, "How Blue Can You Get"
...and i said let grief be a falling leaf at the dawning of the day - Van Morrison & chieftains Raglan Rd (traditional)...