OT: Best single lines or couplets from songs. No verses, just one or two lines

[CTtoSanDiego]

I'll start with 2 very different ones. First, Marty Robins: "When you call me Shorty say Mister, my friend / Or maybe you'd rather be dead."

 

[CTtoSanDiego]

Second, Harry Chaping in Taxi: "But another man never would have let her go / I stashed the bill in my shirt."

 

[Sargassoc]

"It's your father's fault that the curse got placed
And the place got cursed in the first place"

 

[64Zcode]

Pretty relevant to what's on the news these days, a song from the perspective of AI
"Perfect programmed disaster.
You're my maker, but you're not my master."

 

[Cedar]

The Police and Bono — Invisible Sun

“I face the day with my head caved in
Looking like something that the cat brought in”

 

[visitingcock]

X -rated. Last lines as Start Me Up by the Stones is fading out.

 

[Zorro]

He's sure got a lotta gall
to be so useless and all.

Always makes me think of my stepson.

 

[Huskee11]

"Yeah, I`m a loser at the top of my game" (at 1:17)

Mudcrutch is a Tom Petty-related band and they did the song "Scare Easy", which is definitely worth a listen if you have not heard it before. Written by Tom, and lots of great lyrics like the one quoted above.

Another one to begin the song: "My love`s an ocean, you better not cross it".

 

[Conndog]

Two from Me & Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin:
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”
“I’d trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday”

And one more from Institutionalized by the Suicidal Tendencies:
“All I wanted was a Pepsi, and she wouldn’t give it to me”

 

[AzHusky]

Like the sun through the trees you came to love me,
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away

 

[Scud49]

Its Just Like Key Largo,
Melvyn Douglas and Garbo....

 

[HuskyNan]

Guys, see the post tacked to the top of the board. I’m putting a limit on the songs posts. We’ve got way too many