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
Mister misunderstood
mister misunderstood
All your buddies get their
rocks off on Top forty 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
Mister misunderstood
mister 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
and they'll all wanna dance
With Mister Misunderstood
Mister 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 four ten
I'm Mister Misunderstood
Mister 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 the velvet off
my blue suede shoes
Yeah everybody held
up their hands
Every soul on
Beale Street danced
With Mister Misunderstood
Mister 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
sixteenth avenue
Played with fire and
I played on ledges
Every circus stage
and county fair
They tried to file my points
my sand my edges and I
just grew out my hair
I'm Mister Misunderstood
I'm Mister Misunderstood
They're standing in line
chasing the buzz
'Till the next big things
and already was
And hell if they know
what they're trying to find
If it ain't that same old
been-done kind
Yeah gives the
head-scratchers fits
Wondering how in the
hell they missed
Mister Misunderstood
Mister Misunderstood
Hey there weird kid
in your high-top shoes
Sitting in the back of the
class I was just like you
Mister Misunderstood
Mister Misunderstood
Mister Misunderstood
Mister Misunderstood
Mister Misunderstood
I'm Mister Misunderstood
let's go out of here
I understand
I understand
I understand
I understand
