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

Names

I know a man

Who speaks the language of another class

He sees nothin' in the looking glass

Phony

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

Tags

I know a kid

Somehow the ball game doesn't interest him

Isn't this where it all begins

Sissy

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