What are your favourite lines from a song ?

So many great songs and lyrics here. I too saw Dr. Hook many many years ago. Love Marianne's and Dr. Hook's versions. Another great lyric - 'Summer Breeze makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine in my mind'. Don't think anything conjures up picture of lazy summer days much better.

But I ... I ... I ....will always love you.......

Gosh, I've expect I've got loads if I could only think of them. Don McLean's song about Vincent Van Gogh - 'This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.'
Matt Monro - 'Born free, to follow your heart' and on a lighter note -
Bernard Cribbins' song Right Said Fred - 'I've got a sort of feeling if we remove the ceiling, with a rope or two we can drop the blighter through' makes me chuckle.

You were one, you knew you were one
But you slipped right through my fingers
No, not literally but metaphorically
And now you're all I see
As the light fades.....

Ooo well what about ones that enrage you then? there is one that really really grates on me, called New York, can’t remember the singer at the minute but I have to turn the radio off, the lyrics are, something something something Brooklyn Bridge, something something empty fridge - for goodness sake! And then there’s one about a fella holding a girl’s hair back while she throws up! I despair.

"Shut uppa your face"

Just realised OP is about amusing lyrics - my favourite in that category is 'How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team'. ?

Imagine....

Ooh yes I'm the great pretender
Just laughing and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I'm not you see
I'm wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you're still around

It has to be and without a doubt, although there were many wonderful songs around at the time ,the first lines of Michael Jackson's
One day in your life
You'll remember a place
Someone touching your face
That day was to change my life for ever.

I have no flare for flaming desire (Cole Porter)

Jake Thackray’s song ‘Lah de Dah’ is very funny, about meeting his future in laws for the first time!

Just thinking its probably "flair" could be either!

The sons of Pulman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpets made of steel..

City of New Orleans, Willy Nelson

I ain't lookin' to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you, classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you

The Byrds

Thanks Beau for the I needed it after reminiscing in the past on what had been and what 'might'.

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooh, (any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

"And a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" from the U2 song.

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. Eagles hotel California. (Sounds a bit like Brexit to me)

One day at a time.

" I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"
Bob Dylan

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue
An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view
A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold
A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold

by the totally wonderful Carole King.

I love you just the way you are (Billy Joel)

When I stop dreaming, that’s when I’ll stop loving you (Don Henley & Dolly Parton)

What if what if what if what!
If it’s not perfect ,then it’s not.
I WANT TO SPENT MY LIFE WITH YOU!
Don’t want to live all alone
I can’t concive of the life left to me
Without you in our home.

You got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend, when I was down you just stood there laughing........