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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05-27-08: Rsbeck
I was drunk
the day my Mom
got outta prison.
And I went
to pick her up
in the rain.
But, before I
could get to the station
in my pickup truck
She got runned over
by a damned old train.

-- David Allen Coe
Rsbeck

Just to keep the record straight, it was written by the late, great, Steve Goodman...
"I've proven who I am so many times/the magnetic strip's worn thin/and each time I was someone else/and everyone was taken in."

Bruce Cockburn "Pacing the Cage"

"Forever's a promise no love can survive."

She said, "You once cried my name," I said, "Well, baby, things change,"

Dwight Yoakam, "Things change"