Names, Tags, Numbers & Labels Lyrics - It Never Rains In Southern California - 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 

Hm-hm-hm 

Names, tags, numbers, hm, labels