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 And 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 four-ten I'm Mr. Misunderstood 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 the velvet off my blue suede shoes Yeah, 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 Gives 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) (I understand) (I understand) (I understand) (I understand)