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What’s My Name

This version of What’S My Name was released by The Clash in 1977.

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What the hell is wrong with me? I’m not who I want to be
I tired spot cream an’ I tried it all I’m crawling up the wall!

What’s my name naaaame…naaaame….naaaame….

I tried to join a ping-pong club, sign on the door said all full up!
I got nicked, fighting in the road an’ the judge didn’t even know

What’s my name

Dad go pissed so I got clocked
Couldn’t hear the Tannoy so he lost the lot
Offers Mum a bribe through the letter box
Drives you fucking mad

Now I’m round the back of your house at night
Peeping in the window – are you sleeping tight?
I laugh at your locks with my celloid strip
An’ you won’t know who came

What’s my name

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About Lyrics and What’S My Name by The Clash

The lyrics to What’S My Name are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Clash used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to What’S My Name have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Clash and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to What’S My Name by The Clash. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to What’S My Name" means the words set to the music of What’S My Name, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Clash. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to What’S My Name and the lyrics to What’S My Name are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Clash who came here looking just for the lyrics to What’S My Name, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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