Lyrics to You Should Have Never Opened That Door

This version of You Should Have Never Opened That Door was released by Ramones in 1977.

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Mama, where’s your little daughter?
she’s here, right here on the altar

You should never have opened that door
now you’re never gonna see her no more

You don’t know what I can do with this axe chop off your head
so you better relax

Ramones has released many songs over the years besides You Should Have Never Opened That Door. Ramones released songs from 1976 to 1994 spanning across albums like Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket To Russia, Road To Ruin, End Of The Century, Pleasant Dreams, Subterranean Jungle, Too Tough To Die, Animal Boy, Halfway To Sanity, Brain Drain, Mondo Bizarro, Acid Eaters, and Adios Amigos!. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Ramones.

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About Lyrics and You Should Have Never Opened That Door by Ramones

The lyrics to You Should Have Never Opened That Door are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Ramones in 1977. Elements of the lyrics to You Should Have Never Opened That Door are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Ramones and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for You Should Have Never Opened That Door back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to You Should Have Never Opened That Door by Ramones in a number of 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 You Should Have Never Opened That Door" means the words set to the music of You Should Have Never Opened That Door, 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 You Should Have Never Opened That Door and the lyrics to You Should Have Never Opened That Door 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 You Should Have Never Opened That Door, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.