What's In A Name? - The Airborne Toxic Event

There was nothing you could do but turn away

They told the fathers to hide all the girls away

It’s just a name, a name, a name, a name, what’s in a name?

And you were sleeping by the time I found you there

I said, «It's a shame we gotta cut off all that hair…»

But it’s alright, I just hope it’s nothing bad

You can call me if you’re sad, I don’t care what your father said

We were running through the halls of the middle school

Writing our names on the side of the public pool

Like two ghosts in flight on a sleepless night, we were alive

And you told me you were scared of suicide

On the night that your best friend’s brother died

But it’s alright, I just hope it’s nothing bad

You can call me if you’re sad, I don’t care what your father said

I was lost in you dancing around in your living room

And you said your mother’s in the back on Valium

And she sleeps so hard that you wonder if she’s alive

And so I parked my bike outside your house

You said, «There's nothing you can do to make me come out!»

Because your daddy said I was the worst one yet, it was a lie, a lie, a lie,

a lie

Because I always loved the way you looked in that parlour light

Just dancing around in some old sweater of mine

But it’s alright, I just hope it’s nothing bad

Just promise me you won’t get mad, I don’t care what your father said

This is not a game, it would be a crying shame

Honestly, what’s in a name?

Tell me, what’s in a name, a name, a name…

Oh we were so young, we were so wrong

We were so wrong