Andreas Moe in an interview with Nolala:
Calling Out is a song about trying to catch someone’s attention by doing silly things. Things that aren’t you but you’re still doing them, until you realize that ‘Well, maybe I just have to be myself’.
[Verse 1]
We've been hanging out now
Coming up a year now
But you never once looked at me that way
That is gonna change
There’s a reason why
[Verse 2]
I'm gonna grow a beard
I'll even cut my hair
Just to look like guys in your magazine
I don’t know if it's me
But I've gotta try
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause everything I do is to start up a fire
And everything I say is to make you smile
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I'm hoping that you hear my cry
[Chorus]
But don't you know I'm calling out
Don't you know I’m calling out
Don’t you know I'm calling out to you
[Verse 3]
I’ve started lifting weights
So that I can say
"I'm going to the gym, what you up to, baby?"
Mmm, but I hope and pray you don't wanna come
[Verse 4]
Mmm, I got a job at Benny's
Saving up my pennies
I can take you out if you want to, baby
I’m ready any day that you wanna come
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause everything I do is to start up a fire
And everything I say is to make you smile
Oo-oo, hoo-hoo
I'm hoping that you hear my cry
(I'm hoping that you hear my cry)
[Chorus]
But don't you know I'm calling out
Don't you know I'm calling out
Don't you know I'm calling out to you, yeah, yeah
But don't you know I'm calling out
Don't you know I'm calling out
Don't you know I'm calling out to you
[Bridge]
Oo, oo-oo-oo-oo
Oo-oo-oo-oo
Oo-oo-oo-oo
[Pre-Chorus]
See, everything I do is to start up a fire
And everything I say is to make you smile
Mm-mm, mm-mm
I'm hoping that you hear my crying
Hear me crying, hear me crying, hear me crying, now
[Chorus]
But don't you know I'm calling out (Calling out)
Don't you know I'm calling out (Calling out)
Don't you know I'm calling out to you, yeah, yeah
Don't you know I'm calling out (Calling out)
Don't you know I'm calling out (Calling out)
Don't you know I'm calling out to you