Lyrics to
Bad Brain

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I used to be an A student
I never used to complain
I used to be a truant
But I’m still the same
Bad bad brain
Bad bad brain
I used to go to parties
I used to drink champagne
Now I’m beginning to feel the strain
Bad bad brain
I used to be in show biz
I used to have fortune and fame
I used to have pleasure and pain
I used to have a name
Bad bad brain…
Now I’m on the Bowery
I can’t remember my name
Bad bad brain
Bad bad brain
Bad bad brain, bad bad brain
Bad bad brain, bad bad brain
Bad bad brain, bad bad brain
Bad bad brain…

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Ramones has released many songs over the years besides Bad Brain. Ramones released songs from 1976 to 1994 spanning across albums like Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket To Russia, Road To Ruin, End Of The Century, Pleasant Dreams, Subterranean Jungle, Too Tough To Die, Animal Boy, Halfway To Sanity, Brain Drain, Mondo Bizarro, Acid Eaters, and Adios Amigos!. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Ramones.

About Lyrics and Bad Brain by Ramones

The lyrics for Bad Brain are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Ramones. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Bad Brain have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Bad Brain - Ramones and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Bad Brain by Ramones in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Bad Brain" means the words set to the music of Bad Brain, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Ramones. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Bad Brain and the lyrics to Bad Brain are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Ramones who came here looking just for the lyrics to Bad Brain, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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