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Listen To My Heart

This version of Listen To My Heart was released by Ramones in 1976.

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Next time I’ll listen to my heart
Next time, well I’ll be smart
That girl could still be mine
But I’m tired of the hurt
Tired of tryin’
I’m tired of the pain
Tired of tryin’
I’m tired of cryin’

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The lyrics to Listen To My Heart are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Ramones used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Listen To My Heart 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 Listen To My Heart 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 Listen To My Heart" means the words set to the music of Listen To My Heart, 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 Listen To My Heart and the lyrics to Listen To My Heart 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 Listen To My Heart, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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