Foster The People – Call It What You Want Lyrics

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Call it what you want
Call it what you want
I said just call it what you want
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

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
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
Call it what you want
I said just call it what you want
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

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About Call It What You Want

This song is a criticism of music industry as a whole, and a jab at the popular music culture.
It centres on ‘labeling’ and judgement, and throughout the song, Foster makes the statement that his music is the same no matter what you call it.

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