“NAMES” LYRICS TOM MACDONALDENGLISH SONGS / Leave a Comment / By Umesh Khade NAMES LYRICS TOM MACDONALDThey gon’ try to call you names Label you with things till you’re ashamed You’re a racist or a sexist, white supremacist or gay They’ll attack your reputation, claim that you’re the one to blame And try to make you hate yourself for ways that you behave They’re just names Embrace them and they’ll never cause you pain They’re just words that another person thought up in their brain They’re just names They do not define you, that’s insane And they’ll just call you somеthing different if you change Call mе racist, I don’t make no BLM donations I can stand with black folks without a branded corporation All this systemic prejudice If you live in this nation you’re privileged, black or Caucasian Call me transphobic, but I support you and your policies I just can’t ignore the very basics of biology All I see is men and women trying to live in harmony Not a hundred genders that you wanna be Call me snowflake cause I’m offended, I ain’t stone faced Social justice warriors destroying us with woke ways Mad because they voted for the POTUS with the most hate Man I miss the old days Pre-ChorusCall me loser Call me bigot Call me stupid Call me bitter Call me ugly Call me cracker Call me douche or call me triggered You can call me what you want cause at the end of the day Man, they’re just names ChorusGo ahead and call us names dawg, do your thing We ain’t trippin’ cause we heard it all before Give a damn about the names dawg, we feel no pain Your words ain’t gonna hurt us anymore Go ahead and call us names dawg, do your thing Y’all are trippin’ but I hope you find the lord Give a damn about the names dawg, we feel no shame Call us anything you want, I’m gettin’ bored Verse 2They gon’ try to call you names Label you with things till you’re ashamed Repeat it till you really start believing what they say They gon’ stamp it on your forehead and scream until you break They love to say they woke, they ain’t awake They’re just names Afraid of anyone who ain’t the same So they classify your thoughts as controversial, not ok Then they cancel you till everything you have all gets erased They tryna tell the world you’re bad, they’re just names Call me conservative or liberal, republican or democrat I’m somewhere in the middle but y’all don’t know what to do with that The system got you so obsessed with classifying right or left You never call a person human, call ‘em names instead Call me sexist, men run the world cause they’re aggressive But behind every man there’s a woman just as successful We will never be equal and in every way that ain’t helpful Our differences are why we’re great together Call me white devil, I know you think the system favors me My privilege is residual, benefits from the slavery Subconscious prejudice embedded in the system made for me Don’t mean I never struggled to survive, I guess we ain’t agree Pre-Chorus Ignorant and jaded Call me dumb, uneducated Call me idiot or redneck or delusional or crazy Call me anything society has taught you to say Cause at the end of the day, they’re just names ChorusGo ahead and call us names dawg, do your thing We ain’t trippin’ cause we heard it all before Give a damn about the names dawg, we feel no pain Your words ain’t gonna hurt us anymore Go ahead and call us names dawg, do your thing Y’all are trippin’ but I hope you find the lord Give a damn about the names dawg, we feel no shame Call us anything you want, I’m gettin’ bored Bridge Your sticks and your stones might break my bones But your words don’t hurt So give me your worst Stupid, loser, ugly, poser Moron, liar, crazy, loner ChorusGo ahead and call us names dawg, do your thing We ain’t trippin’ cause we heard it all before Give a damn about the names dawg, we feel no pain Your words ain’t gonna hurt us anymore Go ahead and call us names dawg, do your thing Y’all are trippin’ but I hope you find the lord Give a damn about the names dawg, we feel no shame Call us anything you want, I’m gettin’ bored
