Understand Me

Understand Me is the first track off of NF's first record under his new stagename.

Lyrics
It's obvious that they don't understand me

It's obvious that they don't see what I see

Yeah, they used to tell me I was crazy

Now they listen to me like, "Whoa, baby"

Yeah, this is more than a dream, this is more than a passion

Don't ignore what you see—this is more than just rappin'

Here's a picture of me

Take a minute, now let's go backwards

To a time and a place when people thought that this would never happen

Sittin' in the back of the bus

Rappin' it up: my emotion

Ain't nobody really got a clue what I wanna do, and I'm like: my devotion

Don't go nowhere unless I got my CD player with me

Everybody lookin' at me like I'm nuts

"He ain't serious is he?"

Became a pain relief, called it my intervention

Little way to release my tension

Oh yeah, and did I mention?

Too all them kids that told me, "Nate, you just so overrated"

I took them haters and made them into my motivation

It's obvious that they don't understand me

It's obvious that they don't see what I see

Yeah, they used to tell me I was crazy

Now they listen to me like, "Whoa, baby"

I got lost in the movement, I got lost in the beats

Don't just talk to the music—music's talkin' to me

Don't make it hard, see, it really ain't that complicated

But people complicate it, let me clear the complication

Some said the music's fly

Some told me I was basic

Some say shoot for the sky

Some said, "You'll never make it"

Don't know what's in this mind, don't know my situation

Put my life in these lines, put my pain in these pages

Age twelve, walkin' around with a dream that no one knows

Ain't nobody else in my zone, just me and these headphones

Some people crack their jokes

Some people laughed at me

But in the end, he turned them dreams into reality

It's obvious that they don't understand me

It's obvious that they don't see what I see

Yeah, they used to tell me I was crazy

Now they listen to me like, "Whoa, baby"

It's obvious that they don't understand me

It's obvious that they don't see what I see

Yeah, they used to tell me I was crazy

Now they listen to me like, "Whoa, baby"

It's obvious that they don't understand me

It's obvious that they don't see what I see

Yeah, they used to tell me I was crazy

Now they listen to me like, "Whoa, baby"

It's obvious that they don't understand me

It's obvious that they don't see what I see

Yeah, they used to tell me I was crazy

Now they listen to me like, "Whoa, baby"

Yeah, a lot of people don't understand

A lot of people don't know

I been doing music since I was twelve, man

It's been a dream, it's been a passion for so long

And like I said, it's way more than that now

It's way more than just something I wanna be

This ain't about me just wantin' to be famous

Me about wantin' to make money

It's like, part of my life now, you know?

Yeah, let's go