Namesake is a term used to characterize a person, place, thing, quality, action, state, or idea that has the same, or a similar, name to another.
In the United States, the term is often used for a person or thing actually named after, rather than merely sharing the name of another. For example, if a person, place, or thing is named after another person, place, or thing, then the name target is said to be the namesake of the name source. The earliest use reported in the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1635. Dictionaries suggest that the word probably comes from "name's sake", "for one's name('s) sake", for "name sake".
The term namesake was first recorded in 1635, referring to a place with the same name as another. Among other recordings, a 1646 usage was carried through in an 1806 publication, entitled A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language. Modern-day usage has expanded to several uses for the term.
Using a namesake's name is a relatively common practice in naming children that has given rise to the large number of "Jr.", "III", and other name suffixes. Namesakes are often used in tribute to older, related persons, such as grandparents. Use of a namesake's name in a leadership position may indicate certain things, usually referring to certain traits of the namesake, such as in the use of papal regnal names.
Something's slipping away
Can't get my progress on
Doesn't have to be so difficult
Remove the pain
Remove the pain
Just let me start out on my own again
Peel off my skin right now
The feel of my skin right now
She heard me say
Please don't forget,
Don't forget my name
Please don't forget me,
No don't you forget, no don't you forget
Peel off my skin right now
Don't you hesitate don't break this vow
Heal all my sins right now
She heard me say
Please don't forget,
Don't forget my name
Please don't forget me,
I've worn out all of your records
I've torn out page after page
I have lain with the shadows you threw
when you danced with the bright colored
lights of the stage
hey and aren't you grateful?
say and ain't you got fun?
being so good at what you do
doing it right in front of everyone
everybody knows you
I want to know you!
how you roll like the rolling waters
you rise like the bright morning stars
you go fast like the freight train going so fast
and I don't even know who you are
but I would not disappoint you
if you let me kiss your mouth
if you let me get to the bottom of you
if you let me find you out
everybody knows you
nobody knows you!
everybody knows you
I want to know you!
o, but I, in the name of my namesake
am a beautiful fly on the wall of
your four-chambered heart-break