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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"My head is my only house when it rains." Captain Beefheart. Could very well have got that twisted up but that's how it works for me in memory. Actually not sure if it's a lyric or a song title. Either way - words to live by.

Jsonic - I second your choice of that lyric from Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue".
06-09-08: Somec59
Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer
Keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel
Jim Morrison

Somec59...from "Roadhouse Blue", the lines I love are..
"A keep you eyes on the road, you hands upon the wheel;
Keep you eyes on the road, you hands upon the wheel.
Yea - we're goin' to the roadhouse; gonna have a real good time.
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"Well, I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer.
Well, I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer.
The future's uncertain and the end is always near."
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"Yikes!"

The Doors on "Morrison Hotel"