Names, Tags, Numbers & Labels

Names, Tags, Numbers & Labels - Albert Hammond

Names

I know a man

Who drowns his sorrows in the cheapest booze

He knows he hasn't got that much to lose

Wino

Tags

She's twenty-five

She wants a family and a house to run

Her sister always was the pretty one

Lonely

Names tags numbers labels

Other people teach you what you are

You believe them as a rule

While my name for you is beautiful

Your name for me is fool

Numbers

There's no escape

'Cause time will do a number on us all

Your age is scrawled across the office wall

Old man

Labels

You gave me mine

At the time I took it casually

Is that all you really thought of me

Sucker

Names tags numbers labels

Other people teach you what you are

You believe them as a rule

While my name for you is beautiful

Your name for me is fool

Names tags numbers labels

Other people teach you what you are

You believe them as a rule

While my name for you is beautiful