Favorite lyrics that use the same word with multiple meanings

Cafe Society
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I have two:

P.O.S.'s poignant

from* Paul Kersey to Jack Kimball*
and King Crimson’s clever

from Happy with what you have to be happy with.

Does anyone else have any good examples of this type of thing?
edit: crap, this was meant for Cafe Society. Could someone report this post?

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From Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues:

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Moved from IMHO to CS.

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“Buenos Aires”

I want to be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires Big Apple.

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Pearl Jam’s Jeremy:

Pearl Jam’s Thumbing my Way:

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Clever or unusual turns of phrase were regular features of songs from the Tin Pan Alley era. A couple that come to mind:

But Not For Me where “not” becomes “knot” for a surprise ending

Mean To Me where “mean” switches meaning (look, a pun!)
And then there’s the somewhat more recent My Girl Bill by Jim Stafford which is basically a dirty trick.

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The Beatles: Please Please Me

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Well **Lou Reed’s ** Walk on the Wild Side has the oft noted:

But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving…

Well everyone knows the rest of that one.

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Oooh. Just thought of another.

From the classic Simpsons episode Team Homer (the one where Homer and the boys form their own bowling team - Pin Pals) we have:

Come on, Homer! Come on, Homer!
Pretend this is baseball and hit us a homer!

To which Homer replies: “By the way, guys: rhyming “Homer” with ‘homer’?” with a kiss of the fingers.

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Also “Bagged Me a Homer” sung by Lureen Lumpkin:

Bagged Me a Homer

     I used to play the field,
     I used to be a roamer,
     But the season's turning 'round for me now,
     I finally bagged me a homer.

     I finally bagged me a Homer
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Well, if we’re bringing out the Simpsons, there’s Ricky Gervais’s song

Lady when you go away, I feel like I could die
Not like dye like your hair is dyed
But die like lady Di
And not like Di like her nam is Di
But die like when she died

Though I guess those are homophones, and not words with multiple meanings.

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Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay”

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Perhaps not exactly what you’re looking for …

Rush, “Territories”

In different [two words] circles, we keep holding our ground
Indifferent [one word] circles, we keep spinning round and round