What's In a Name

Don't call me by my name
Don't call me by your name
Don't call me a name at all
Names give you reasons
Reasons to fall
Reasons to love
Reasons to fail
Reasons to hate
Reasons to give up on it all

This time around, don't give reasons a chance
This time around, don't call me a name
This time around, let it all be in the blanks.


I once called someone by her name
I once called someone by ny name
I once knew someone who called me by my name
I once knew someone who called me by her name
I once thought it was all about names
I once thought life was in the names.


We fell in love one drunken night
Somewhat drunken in the inebriety of an affordable whiskey
A lot more drunk in the sudden rush of blood gushing through the sober veins

The night was gone at the break of dawn
The euphoria of a few glasses of whiskey had worn out
But the names stayed

Love is too intriguing a name to let go
Love is too stranger a name to survive

And so, we loved in the name of love
After all, it was all about names in the end

I called her by her name
And she called me by mine

Every time we held hands and walked back home to the crimson sunset
Every time we laughed to each other on the blades of the lush green smitten in dewdrops
Every time our skins crossed paths as we watched the thousand dots make sense of the star-crossed skies
Every time we slept to each other, arms wrapped, her head resting to my restless heartbeat
Every time we made love to the crumpled sheets, breathless shivers and vanishing spaces

I called her by my name
And she called me by hers

But names don't stop at names.

And so, the love grew
The love for names

The love for mountains
The love for beaches
The love for dogs
The love for cinema
The love for commons
The love for differences
The love for love
The love for life

We named them all.

After all, it was all about names in the end
After all, love was in the names
After all, life was in the names

The love for names kept growing
The love for names kept growing beyond the love


Do you know what lies beyond the love?

Madness. Sheer madness.

But, how long can you survive madness?


I had once wondered how it felt to fall out of love
I had once wondered how it felt to grow out of habits
I had once wondered how love could poison existences
I had once wondered how love could wage hatred
I had once wondered how it felt to be in love and yet not to be
I had once wondered what happened to the names at the end of it all

Life is stranger than fiction they say
Life was stranger than love this time.

The madness had ended
The love was lost
The names stayed but.

The names are never gone
The names can not be drowned or forgotten
The names remain, like the lost bits of a chance otherwise almost survived
The names remain, like the ghost of a dead past that keeps coming back
The names remain, like the scars from an accident almost forgotten if not for them


Don't call me by my name
Don't call me by your name
Don't call me a name at all
Names give you reasons
Reasons to fall
Reasons to love
Reasons to fail
Reasons to hate
Reasons to give up on it all

This time around, don't give reasons a chance
This time around, don't call me a name
This time around, let it all be in the blanks.


After all, love is not about the names
After all, love was never about the names
After all, life is not in the names
After all, life was never in the names.