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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There shes goes doin it again, pass up the rooster and settle for a hen. [Mentors]
"When that lovely flame dies,"
Smoke gets in your eyes."

From song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; lyrics Otto Harbach, music Jerome Kern, 1933.
who needs to see what we’ve done
who needs please, when we’ve got guns
who needs keys, when we’ve got clubs
who needs peace, when we’ve gone above
but beyond, where we should have gone
we went beyond where we should have gone

Jack Johnson
Sleep Thru The Static
"The killer lives inside me: yes, I can feel him move.
Sometimes he's lightly sleeping
in the quiet of his room,
but then his eyes will rise and stare through mine;
he'll speak my words and slice my mind inside.
Yes the killer lives.
Angels live inside me: I can feel them smile...
Their presence strokes
and soothes the tempest in my mind
and their love can heal the wounds
that I have wrought.
They watch me as I go to fall
- well, I know I shall be caught,
while the angels live.

How can I be free?
How can I get help?
Am I really me?
Am I someone else?"

Man Erg - Van Der Graaf Generator
Judith by A Perfect Circle.

"You're such an inspiration for the ways in which I'll never ever choose to be."