Lyrics to
Hardwood Floor

This version of Hardwood Floor was released by The Doors in 1972.

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Gonna tell your daddy that we need some dough
We’re gonna get married down in Mexico
We got love, don’t need no more
But all we got to live on is a hardwood floor
You know all we got to live on is a hardwood floor
We got love don’t need no more
All we got to live on is a hardwood floor
All we got to live on is a hardwood floor
All we got to live on
All we got to live on
All we got to live on is a hardwood floor
Like I said before

Well I had a lot of money about a year ago
Spent all my money on a rock ‘n’ roll show
I got a lot to tell, aint got nothing to show
All we got to live on is a hardwood floor
On this hardwood floor
On this hardwood floor

Well I went to see your daddy but he sure got sore
He said you oughta be out there fighting the war
I asked him for some money, he said what for
I told him all we got to live on is a hardwood floor
You know all we got to live on is a hardwood floor

We got love don’t need no more
All we got to live on is a hardwood floor
On this hardwood floor
On this hardwood floor
On this hardwood floor
All we got to live on is this hardwood floor
All we got to live on is this hardwood floor

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The Doors has released many songs over the years besides Hardwood Floor. The Doors released songs from 1967 to 1978 spanning across albums like The Doors, Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, The Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel, L.A. Woman, Other Voices, Full Circle, and An American Prayer. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Doors.

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About Lyrics and Hardwood Floor by The Doors

The lyrics to Hardwood Floor are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Doors used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to Hardwood Floor have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Doors and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Hardwood Floor by The Doors. 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 Hardwood Floor" means the words set to the music of Hardwood Floor, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Doors. 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 Hardwood Floor and the lyrics to Hardwood Floor are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Doors who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hardwood Floor, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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