Mr. Misunderstood

Hey there, weird kid in your high top shoes

Sitting in the back of the class, I was just like you

Always left out, never fit in

Owning that path you're walking in

Mr. Misunderstood

Mr. Misunderstood

Now, your buddies get their rocks off on Top 40 radio

But you love your daddy's vinyl, old time rock and roll

Elvis Costello, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and think Jeff Tweedy

Is one bad mother

Mr. Misunderstood

Mr. Misunderstood

One day you'll lead the charge, you'll lead the band

Guitar Hero with lightning hands

And the girls will like your tattoos and the veins in your arms

They'll be helpless to your musical charms

And they'll all hold up their hands

Now they'll all wanna dance

Mr. Misunderstood

Mr. Misunderstood

First time I met Alabama Hannah, I was skinny as a rail

Red hair tied up in a blue bandana

She was hotter than the devil's Hell

She turned me on to Back Porch Pickers, Jackson Pollock, and gin

Her daddy didn't trust my intentions

So he turned to his daddy's old .410

I'm Mr. Misunderstood

I'm Mr. Misunderstood

Had an axe to grind, so off I went

Mad at the sun for coming up again

I lost religion, found my soul in the blues

Rubbed that velvet off my blue suede shoes

Yeah, and everybody held up their hands

And every soul on Beale Street danced

With Mr. Misunderstood

Mr. Misunderstood

So I went with it like a colt on my Plymouth

Through the glass behind my rear view

Took a left when the world went right down 16th Avenue

Played with fire and I played on ledges

Every circus, stage, and county fair

They tried to file my points

Sand my edges, and I just grew out my hair

I'm Mr. Misunderstood

I'm Mr. Misunderstood

They're standing in line, chasing the buzz

'Til the next big things and already was

A hell if they know, what they're trying to find

If it ain't that same old, been done kind, yeah

Give the head scratchers fits

I wondered how in the hell they missed

A Mr. Misunderstood

Mr. Misunderstood

Hey there, weird kid in your high top shoes

Sitting in the back of the class, I was just like you

Mr. Misunderstood (I understand)

Mr. Misunderstood (I understand)

Mr. Misunderstood (I understand)

Mr. Misunderstood (I understand)

Mr. Misunderstood (I understand)

I'm Mr. Misunderstood (let's go out of here)

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Na na, na na na na (I understand)

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Na na, na na na na (I understand)

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Na na, na na na na (I understand)

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Na na, na na na na (I understand)

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