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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"Seen a shootin star tonight, and I thought of you." (by the greatest songwriter ever)
Each man has his price Bob And yours was pretty low

AND

You've got to be trusted by people that you lie to
so when they turn their backs on you,
you'll get the chance to put the knife in.

Roger Waters
"It was a hot summer night and the beach was burnng
There was fog crawling over the sand
When I listen to your heart I hear the whole world turning
I see the shooting stars falling thru your trembling hands"

Artist: Meat Loaf
CD: "Bat out of hell"

From the same cd, try this one next time your in deep with your sweety:

"I could laugh Oh, but you could cry,
And I never knew just how high I was flying
Oh, with you right above me"
"My second cousin, his name was Calloway,
He died when he'd barely turned two.
And it was peanut butter and jelly that did it,
The help, she didn't know what to do,
She just stood there and watched him turn blue."

Lyle Lovett - 'Family Reserve'
Tori Amos - Precious Things.
"So you can make me cum, that doesn't make you Jesus"