Misunderstood
“Baby do you understand me now
If sometimes you see that I'm mad
Doncha know that no one alive can always be an angel?
When everything goes wrong you see some bad
Well I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood”
Love is a battlefield
And hate is your weapon
Stepin, tryna move on with my life
Yet all I seem to do is create strife
Try to stay away from wrong and stick with right, yet trouble seems to find me by the end of the night
I, I never meant to hurt you
Yet, it’s all seem to do
Uh baby, I’m not angelic
the pain in my heart I wish you would have felt it
You would understand my life, Yes I know it still wouldn’t right
To make you suffer because of the pain in my life
Have you crying out in the middle of the night
Cause of something I did wrong and never made right
It’s just…
I want you to understand
Why it hurts so much to be this man
My life is faulty; I don’t know how much more of this I can take
When every second I feel like I’m going to break
Yet, that’s the thing about you
You keep me together, I fall apart without you,
It’s true, we fuss and fight, yet we still make it through till the end of the night
So, I take a stand tonight,
Please don’t misunderstand me let me make it right
Forgive the wrongs remember the right
I’m only human error is part of my life
Yet, part of my stand tonight
Is to not let my problems destroy our life
Together
So let’s stay together to the end
Because when it comes to me in the end
“I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood”
Excerpts taken from Nina Simone-Don't Let me be Misunderstood