What You Answer To

If you ask my daughter, I'm just Daddy

If you ask her mama, I'm a fool

If you ask Ol' Bill, he calls me Buddy

But it ain't what they call you

It's what you answer to

My doctor called me in some oxy-something

Now he won't fill my script, it's way too soon

My girlfriend's girlfriends call me way too often

But it ain't what they call you

It's what you answer to

I've been called a loser, called a cheat

Called some things I can't repeat

And they've called the law on me a time or two

I've been called right, called wrong

Some things were so dead on

But some things could not be farther from the truth

And it ain't what they call you

It's what you answer to

She, him, they, them, fine, whatever, honey

It seems like the whole damn world's confused

I wish that I could laugh, but it ain't funny

And it ain't what they call you

It's what you answer to

Hey, I've been called a loser, called a cheat

Called some things I can't repeat

And they've called the law on me a time or two

I've been called right, called wrong

Some things were so dead on

But some things could not be farther from the truth

But it ain't what they call you

No matter what they call you

It ain't what they call you

It's what you answer to