Lyrics to
I Just Want To Have Something To Do

This version of I Just Want To Have Something To Do was released by Ramones in 1978.

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Hanging out of Second Avenue
Eating chicken vindaloo
I just want to be with you
I just want to have something to do
Tonight, tonight, tonight,tonight,tonight,tonight
Well allright.
Tonight, tonight, tonight,tonight,tonight,tonight
Wait-Now
Wait-Now
Hanging out all by myself
Cause I don’t want to be with anybody else
I just want to be with you
I just want to have something to do
Tonight

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About Lyrics and I Just Want To Have Something To Do by Ramones

The lyrics for I Just Want To Have Something To Do 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 I Just Want To Have Something To Do 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 I Just Want To Have Something To Do - 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 I Just Want To Have Something To Do 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 I Just Want To Have Something To Do" means the words set to the music of I Just Want To Have Something To Do, 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 Just Want To Have Something To Do and the lyrics to I Just Want To Have Something To Do 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 Just Want To Have Something To Do, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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