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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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stevecham
3,298 posts
 
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make - Beatles - The End

And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon - Pink Floyd - Eclipse

The sands of time were eroded by the river of constant change - Genesis - Firth of Fifth

Watch out now, take care beware of greedy leaders, they'll take you where you should not go -George Harrison - Beware of Darkness
bright_star_audio
179 posts
 
"If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them they know - not me"

Cat Stevens from "Father and Son"
rsbeck
887 posts
 
"You know the times you impress me the most are the times that you don't try."
-- Joni Mitchell, Last Time I Saw Richard

"She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake."
-- Elvis Costello, Watching the Detectives

"The only kind of man that you ever wanted was one that you
knew you couldn't hold very long. You're sittin' there cryin' like
I'm the first one to go."
-- Jerry Jeff Walker, Angel

"I'm like a one eyed cat, peepin' in a seafood store."
-- Joe Turner, Shake, Rattle, and Roll

"Love is love not fade away."
-- Buddy Holley, Not Fade Away
rsbeck
887 posts
 
I used to be chicken hearted;
cry when he'd walk out the do'
'cause I was just young and stupid.
Ha! Ain't like that no mo'

one monkey don't stop no show.
One monkey don't stop no show.
Let him do anything he choose.
There's a million men who can fill his shoes.

Big Maybelle, One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
aroc
760 posts
 
So make a move and plead the fifth 'cause ya Can't plead the first

"Down Rodeo"

Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes,
Not need, just feed tha war cannibal animal
I walk tha corner to tha rubble that used to be a library
Line up to tha mind Cemetary
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive an movin'
They don't gotta burn tha books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as tha cells
Rally round the family, pocket full of shells

"Bulls on Parade"

Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire (1996)
Label: Sony
Catalog: #57523
Also available on vinyl LP.
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