[Intro - loose rolling band, a swinging prison-album groove, the vocal entering talked]
[Verse 1 - talked, the comic setup]
[00:05.73]Well I have been a believer most of my life now
[00:11.15]And in all of that time I have been called a lot of things
[00:16.19]Now I expected the world to call me names, the world has always done that
[00:23.25]But I am here to tell you about the names I got from the church

[Verse 2 - the contradictory labels, talked, comic]
[00:31.02]The Arminians, they called me a hyper-Calvinist, the worst of the worst
[00:35.55]And the Calvinists turned right around and called me an antinomian
[00:41.67]One camp said that I was too hard, one camp said I was too soft
[00:46.11]One man called me a heretic on a Monday
[00:49.27]And a compromiser by that Friday
[00:51.12]And brother, it was the very same man

[Chorus - talked over the groove]
[00:54.80]They made me a man named Heretic
[00:57.84]Heretic, that was the name
[00:59.90]You carry a name like that into a room
[01:02.14]And the room is never the same
[01:04.38]A man named Heretic learns to keep his back against the wall
[01:11.04]A man named Heretic learns to scrap

[Verse 3 - the fighting years, comic]
[01:17.29]So for years and years I fought about it, I fought about it everywhere
[01:21.51]I would not let a single name go by without a swing
[01:27.10]I figured if I won enough of the rounds they would take the name back someday
[01:32.83]But you cannot win a name back
[01:35.57]No sir, you cannot win a name back

[Verse 4 - the confrontation with the source]
[01:40.33]So I got down low one night and I had it out with God
[01:44.67]I said Lord, every camp on earth has shown me to the door
[01:48.56]I said Lord, they have named me clean out of everywhere a man can stand
[01:53.56]I said why would You let them do it
[01:55.54]Why would You ever let them name me out

[Bridge - the twist, the band drops back, quiet]
[01:59.70]And it came back quiet, the way the true things always do
[02:04.20]Son, I let them hang that name on you, every contradictory one
[02:11.95]Because a man who is welcome everywhere will never leave the camp
[02:16.41]And the truth was never in the camp
[02:19.17]The truth was always out past the fence
[02:22.71]I named you out, son
[02:24.99]I named you out on purpose

[Final Verse and Outro - the band comes back, wry acceptance]
[02:32.60]So you can call me Heretic, I will answer to it now
[02:37.19]It is just the name on the road that led me to the truth
[02:42.35]A man named Heretic turned out to be the only kind of man
[02:48.98]Who was ever going to find his way outside the camp
[02:54.02]They made me a man named Heretic
[02:58.54]And Lord, it turned out to be the gift