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I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement

This version of I Don’T Wanna Go Down To The Basement was released by Ramones in 1976.

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Hey, daddy-o
I don’t wanna go down to the basement
There’s somethin’ down there
I don’t wanna go
Hey, Romeo
There’s somethin’ down there
I don’t wanna go down to the basement

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The lyrics to I Don’T Wanna Go Down To The Basement are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Ramones used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to I Don’T Wanna Go Down To The Basement have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Ramones 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 I Don’T Wanna Go Down To The Basement by Ramones. 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 I Don’T Wanna Go Down To The Basement" means the words set to the music of I Don’T Wanna Go Down To The Basement, 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 I Don’T Wanna Go Down To The Basement and the lyrics to I Don’T Wanna Go Down To The Basement 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 I Don’T Wanna Go Down To The Basement, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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