Call Out My Name – English Lyrics
Lyrics & Translation
[English]
♪ ♪
♪ WE FOUND EACH OTHER ♪
♪ I HELPED YOU OUT OF A BROKEN PLACE ♪
♪ YOU GAVE ME COMFORT ♪
♪ BUT FALLING FOR YOU WAS MY MISTAKE ♪
♪ I PUT YOU ON TOP ♪
♪ I PUT YOU ON TOP ♪
♪ I CLAIMED YOU SO PROUD AND OPENLY ♪
♪ AND WHEN TIMES WERE ROUGH ♪
♪ WHEN TIMES WERE ROUGH ♪
♪ I MADE SURE I HELD YOU CLOSE TO ME ♪
♪ SO CALL OUT MY NAME ♪
♪ (CALL OUT MY NAME) ♪
♪ CALL OUT MY NAME WHEN I KISS YOU SO GENTLY ♪
♪ I WANT YOU TO STAY ♪
♪ (I WANT YOU TO STAY) ♪
♪ I WANT YOU TO STAY ♪
♪ EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T WANT ME ♪
♪ GIRL WHY CAN'T YOU WAIT ♪
♪ (WHY CAN'T YOU WAIT BABY) ♪
♪ GIRL WHY CAN'T YOU WAIT TIL I FALL OUT OF LOVE ♪
♪ WON'T YOU CALL OUT MY NAME ♪
♪ (CALL OUT MY NAME) ♪
♪ GIRL CALL OUT MY NAME ♪
♪ AND I'LL BE ON MY WAY ♪
♪ AND I'LL BE ON MY ♪
♪ I SAID I DIDN'T FEEL NOTHING BABY ♪
♪ BUT I LIED ♪
♪ I ALMOST CUT A PIECE OF MYSELF FOR YOUR LIFE ♪
♪ GUESS I WAS JUST ANOTHER PIT STOP ♪
♪ TIL YOU MADE UP YOUR MIND ♪
♪ YOU'RE JUST WASTING MY TIME ♪
♪ YOU'RE ON TOP ♪
♪ I PUT YOU ON TOP ♪
♪ I CLAIMED YOU SO PROUD AND OPENLY BABY ♪
♪ AND WHEN TIMES WERE ROUGH ♪
♪ WHEN TIMES WERE ROUGH ♪
♪ I MADE SURE I HELD YOU CLOSE TO ♪
♪ SO CALL OUT MY NAME ♪
♪ (CALL OUT MY NAME BABY) ♪
♪ SO CALL OUT MY NAME WHEN I KISS YOU SO GENTLY ♪
♪ I WANT YOU TO STAY ♪
♪ (I WANT YOU TO STAY) ♪
♪ I WANT YOU TO STAY ♪
♪ EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T WANT ME ♪
♪ GIRL WHY CAN'T YOU WAIT ♪
♪ (GIRL WHY CAN'T YOU WAIT TIL I) ♪
♪ GIRL WHY CAN'T YOU WAIT TIL I FALL OUT OF LOVE ♪
♪ BABY CALL OUT MY NAME ♪
♪ (CALL OUT MY NAME BABY) ♪
♪ GIRL CALL OUT MY NAME ♪
♪ AND I'LL BE ON MY WAY GIRL ♪
♪ I'LL BE ON MY ♪
♪ (ON MY WAY, ON MY WAY) ♪
♪ (ON MY WAY, ON MY WAY) ♪
♪ (ON MY WAY, ON MY WAY) ♪
♪ (ON MY WAY, ON MY WAY) ♪
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Key Vocabulary
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Key Grammar Structures
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I helped you out of a broken place.
➔ Past simple tense.
➔ The verb "helped" indicates a completed action in the past.
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I want you to stay.
➔ Infinitive form after a verb.
➔ The phrase "to stay" is in the infinitive form, following the verb "want."
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Girl, why can't you wait?
➔ Modal verb for ability or permission.
➔ The phrase "can't" indicates inability or lack of permission.
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I claimed you so proud and openly.
➔ Adverb placement.
➔ The adverbs "so proud and openly" describe how the action of claiming was done.
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I said I didn't feel nothing, baby.
➔ Double negatives.
➔ The phrase "didn't feel nothing" uses double negatives, which can be informal in English.
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You're just wasting my time.
➔ Present continuous tense.
➔ The phrase "wasting" indicates an ongoing action in the present.
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And when times were rough.
➔ Past simple tense in conditional clauses.
➔ The phrase "were rough" indicates a past situation that was difficult.
