| Hey there, weird kid in your high-top shoes
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| Sitting in the back of the class; |
| I was just like you
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| Always left out, never fit in
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| Owning that path you’re walking in
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| Mr. Misunderstood, Mr. Misunderstood
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| Now, your buddies get their rocks off on Top 40 radio
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| But you love your daddy’s vinyl, old-time rock and roll
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| Elvis Costello, Ray Wylie Hubbard
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| And think Jeff Tweedy is one bad mother
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| Mr. Misunderstood, Mr. Misunderstood
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| One day you’ll lead the charge, you’ll lead the band
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| Guitar Hero with lightnin' hands
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| And the girls will like your tattoos and the veins in your arms
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| They’ll be helpless to your musical charms
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| And they’ll all hold up their hands
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| They’ll all wanna dance
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| Mr. Misunderstood, Mr. Misunderstood
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| First time I met Alabama Hannah, I was skinny as a rail
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| Red hair tied up in a blue bandanna
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| She was hotter than the Devil’s hell
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| She turned me on to Back Porch Pickers
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| Jackson Pollock, and gin
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| Her daddy didn’t trust my intentions
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| So he turned to his daddy’s old .410
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| I’m Mr. Misunderstood, Mr. Misunderstood
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| Had an axe to grind, so off I went
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| Mad at the sun for coming up again
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| I lost religion, found my soul in the blues
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| Rubbed the velvet off my blue suede shoes
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| Yeah, everybody held up their hands
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| And every soul on Beale Street danced
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| With Mr. Misunderstood, Mr. Misunderstood
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| So I went with it like a colt on my Plymouth
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| Through the glass behind my rear-view
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| Took a left when the world went right down 16th Avenue
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| Played with fire and I played on ledges
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| Every circus, stage, and county fair
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| They tried to file my points, sand my edges
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| And I just grew out my hair
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| I’m Mr. Misunderstood, I’m Mr. Misunderstood
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| They’re standing in line, chasing the buzz
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| Til the next big things and already was
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| And hell if they know what they’re trying to find
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| If it ain’t that same old, been-done kind
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| Yeah, gives the head-scratchers fits
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| Wondering how in the hell they missed
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| I’m Mr. Misunderstood, Mr. Misunderstood
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| Hey there, weird kid in your high-top shoes
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| Sitting in the back of the class; |
| I was just like you
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| Mr. Misunderstood (I understand)
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| Mr. Misunderstood (I understand)
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| Mr. Misunderstood (I understand)
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| Mr. Misunderstood (I understand)
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| Mr. Misunderstood (I understand)
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| I’m Mr. Misunderstood (let's go out of here)
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| Na na na na-na, na na na na-na
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| Na na na na-na na (I understand)
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| Na na na na-na, na na na na-na
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| Na na na na-na na (I understand)
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| Na na na na-na, na na na na-na
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| Na na na na-na na (I understand)
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| Na na na na-na, na na na na-na
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| Na na na na-na na (I understand…)
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| Na na na na-na, na na na na-na
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| Na na na na-na na
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| Na na na na-na, na na na na-na
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| Na na na na-na na |