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Artist: Foster The People
Canonical path: /foster-the-people/call-it-what-you-want
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Call It What You Want
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Call It What You Want
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Call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
Call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
I said just call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
Call it what you want
Yeah we're locked up in ideas
We like to label everything
Well I'm just gonna do here what I gotta do here
'Cause I gotta keep myself free
You're ducking and moving just to hide your bruises from all your enemies
And I'm in the crossfire dodging bullets from your expectancies
Yeah yeah
Ooh, we've got nothing to lose
You better run and hide
Yeah you've crossed the line
I've got a knife behind my back, just sayin
Ooh, we've got nothing to prove
Your social guides give you swollen eyes
But what I've got can't be bought so you can just
Call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
Call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
I said: Just call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
Call it what you want
You've taken your words and you take your judgments
And stick them onto everything
If it don't conform to what you were born into
Then you run the other way
You say: Now what's your style and who do you listen to? Who cares?
Well that rat race ladder-climbing fake-face smile's got nothing on me
Yeah yeah
Ooh, we've got nothing to lose
You better run and hide
Yeah you've crossed the line
I've got a knife behind my back, just sayin'
Ooh, we've got nothing to prove
Your social guides give you swollen eyes
But what I've got can't be bought so you can just
Call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
Call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
I said just call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
Call it what you want, want, want, want, want
What you want, want, want
Call it what you want, want, want
You can call it what you want
What you want, want, want
Call it what you, call it what you want
What you want, want, want
You can call it, you can call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
Call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
I said just call it what you want (yeah yeah yeah)
Call it what you want
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