Best single line lyric in a song?

If you smile at me, I will understand
Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
In the same language


Wooden Ships
Crosby, Stills and Nash
 
He said, "Let me break it to you, son. Your shit's fucked up."

Warren Zevon, "My Shit's Fucked Up"
 
Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me, where is sanity?

Ten Years After- I'd Love to Change the World
 
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em
That's what the Statue of Bigotry says

Dirty Blvd. - Lou Reed
 
I understand about indecision but I don't care if I get behind, people living in competition, all I want is to have my peace of mind.

Boston
 
She'll tell you she's an orphan
After you meet her family

She Talks To Angels - The Black Crowes
 
what do you want from life

How can you tell when you're doin' alright?
Does your bank account swell while you're dreamin' at night?
How do you know when you're really in love?
Do violins play when you're touchin' the one that you're lovin'? Oh

the Tubes
 
dock of the bay

Look like nothin's gonna change
Everything, still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same
 
Lola - The Kinks

But Lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said "Dear boy, I'm gonna make you a man"
 
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
 
Yeah, an' I like my women just a little on the trashy side
When they wear their clothes too tight and their hair is dyed
Too much lipstick an' er too much rouge
Gets me excited, leaves me feeling confused
An' I like my women just a little on the trashy side
 
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Baby, lock the door and turn the lights down low
And put some music on that's soft and slow
Baby, we ain't got no place to go
I hope you understand
I've been thinking 'bout this all day long
Never felt a feeling quite this strong
I can't believe how much it turns me on
Just to be your man
 
never have I been any blue calm sea
I have always been a storm

Storms - Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks vocal)
 
And I elongated my lift home
Yeah I let him go the long way round

I smelt your scent on the seatbelt

And kept my shortcuts to myself
 
"Close your eyes and remember this
It won't be back again
It's almost gone
Even times that don't seem like much
Will be your only crutch when you're alone
Time moves slow when you're seventeen
And then it picks up steam at twenty-one
Pretty soon you'll remember when you could remember when you loved someone."

Streetlights - Jason Isbell
 
With half-damp eyes I stare to the room
Where my friends and I'd spent many an afternoon
Where we would gather midst many a storm
Laughin and a-jokin til the early hours of the morn

As easy it was to tell black from white
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
And our choices they was few so the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter or split

-Dylan
 
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