Most iconic lyrics in history.

[Caversham Green]

Since we're talking history, how about this from 1642 (only song lyrics from the 1970s AFAIK):

Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor Iron bars a cage
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.

Or one that has always made my heart ache - about African slaves in the US from 1927 but relating to an earlier era:

I get weary and sick of trying
I'm tired of living and scared of dying

[snooky]

"Tonight you're mine, completely...." - Shirelles

[HibbyDave]

I saw a dead head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said don’t look back you can never look back.

News guy wept when he told he told us earth was really dying.

A cop knealt and kissed the feet of a priest and a queer threw up at the sight of that.



So no-one told you life was gonna be this way


I met a gin-soaked bar room queen in Memphis, she tried to take me upstairs for a ride





And you come to me on a summer breeze