Lyrics to
Locket Love

This version of Locket Love was released by Ramones in 1977.

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Lovely lovely locket love
You could use a little of
Hang a chain around you
You’re hangin’ too
Hang on a little bit longer
Hang on you’re a goner

Lovely lovely locket love
Cause a picture never does
Try to expose you
For what you put me through
Hang on a little bit longer
Hang on you’re a goner

Never never can tell
How hard you fell
Lovely lovely locket ’cause
The best poison of

Lovely lovely locket love
You got a pocket of
Lovely little tricks you do
Now I’m hangin’ too
Hang on a little bit longer
Hang on you’re a goner

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About Lyrics and Locket Love by Ramones

The lyrics for Locket Love are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Ramones. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Locket Love 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 Locket Love - 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 Locket Love 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 Locket Love" means the words set to the music of Locket Love, 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 Locket Love and the lyrics to Locket Love 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 Locket Love, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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