Names Chords by Tom Macdonald

_ They [E] gonna try to call you names, [Em] label you with things till [E] you're ashamed.
You're a sexist or a racist, white supremacist or gay.
They'll attack your [Em] reputation, claim that you're the one [E] 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 they brain.
They're just names.
[Em] They do not define you, that's [F] insane.
And they'll just call you something different if you change.
[E] Call me racist, [C] I don't make no BLM [E] donations.
I can stand with black folks without a brandy corporation.
All the systemic prejudice, if you live in this nation, you're privileged.
Black or Caucasian, call me [C] transphobic, but I support you and your [E] 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 want to be.
Call me snowflake, [C] cause I'm offended, I ain't [F] stone faced.
Social justice warriors destroying us [Am] with woke ways.
Mad because they voted for the POTUS with the [F] most hate.
[Em] Man, I miss the old days.
[E] Call me loser, call me [C] bigot, call me stupid, call me [F] bitter.
Call me ugly, call me cracker, call me doucher, call me [Am] trigger.
You can call me what you [C] want, cause at the end of the day, [A]
man, [Em] they're just names.
Go [Am] ahead and call us names, do your [Em] thing.
We ain't trippin' cause we heard it all before.
Give a [Am] damn about the names, we feel no pain.
Your words ain't gonna [C] hurt us anymore.
Go ahead [A] and call us names, do your [C] thing.
Y'all are trippin' but I hope you find the Lord.
Give a [Am] damn about the names, we feel no [C] shame.
Call us anything you want, I'm getting bored.
[A] _ _ They gon' try to call you names, [Em] label you with things till you're [E] ashamed.
Repeat it till you really start believing what they say.
They gon' stamp it on your [Em] forehead and scream it till you [E] break.
They love to say they woke, they not awake.
They're just names, afraid [Em] of anyone who ain't the [E] same.
So they classify your thoughts as controversial, not okay.
Then they cancel you till [C] everything you have all gets [E] erased.
They tryna tell the world you bad, they're just names.
Call me conservative or [C] liberal, Republican or [E] Democrat.
I'm somewhere in the middle but y'all don't know what to do [E] with that.
The system got you [C] so obsessed with classifying right [E] or left.
You never call a person human, call them names instead.
Call me sexist, and [C] men run the world cause they're [E] aggressive.
But behind every man there's a woman just as successful.
We will never be equal [C] in every way, that ain't helpful.
[E] Our differences are why we're great together.
Call me white devil, [C] I know you think the system favors [E] me.
My privilege is residual benefits from the [Am] slavery.
Subconscious prejudice [C] embedded in the system made [E] for me.
Don't mean I never struggled [Em] to survive, I guess we ain't [E] agree.
Ignorant and jaded, [C] call me dumb, uneducated.
[E] Call me idiot or redneck or delusional or crazy.
[Am] Call me anything [C] society has taught you to say.
[A] Cause at the end of the day, [Em] they're just names.
Go ahead [Am] and call us names, y'all.
Do your thing.
[Em] We ain't trippin' cause we heard it [C] all before.
Give a damn [Am] about the names, y'all.
We feel no pain.
[C] Your words ain't gonna hurt us anymore.
Go ahead and [Am] call us names, [F] y'all.
Do your thing.
[Em] Y'all are trippin' but I hope you find the Lord.
Give a damn [Am] about the names, y'all.
We feel no pain.
[C] Call us anything you want, I'm getting bored.
_ [E]
Your sticks and your stone might break my bones, but your [C] words don't [E] hurt.
So give me your worst.
_ [C] Stupid, [E] loser, ugly, poser, _
_ [C] moron, liar, [E] crazy, loner.
Go ahead and [Am] call us names, y'all.
Do your thing.
We [Em] ain't trippin' cause we heard it all before.
Give a damn about [Am] the names, y'all.
We feel no pain.
[Em] Your words ain't gonna hurt us [B] anymore.
Go ahead and [Am] call us names, y'all.
[Am] Do your thing.
Y'all [Em] are trippin' but I hope you find the Lord.
Give a damn about [Am] the names, y'all.
We feel no shame.
Call [C] us anything you want, I'm [B] getting bored.
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