N.E.R.D

Released: March 23, 2004

Songwriter: Pharrell Williams Chad Hugo

Producer: The Neptunes

[Pharrell]
So she tells her man:
"Let's go fishin'"
We'll go tomorrow morning when the sun rise...
And then she says she wants to take her kids and (*baby crying*)
That's her boy that's 12, and her daughter that's 4 with angel eyes
So they get there... and the sun has barely risen
Decided on a spot where the fish is plentiful with the tide
Get out their poles, daddy smiles and said the fish is jumpin'
Then they heard a splash but it sounded bigger than fish size

12 year old screams: "Mom!!!"
And Mom screams back:
"The baby was holdin' your arm"
Well, that was 30 seconds ago
So they jumped in
All comin' up with nothin'
But then...

Something told mom
To look toward the light
But the sun wasn't yellow
It had turned white
So she listen and swam
She swam for the light
Like the Michelin Man
She swam with such might

She spotted the baby
And she was on her back
Just as the light said "Sunrise was Heaven's track"
She turned the baby over
Her eyes were still blue
Baby had a smile and said...

"I was waitin' for you!"
Mom, I was waitin' for you!!!
Your baby!!
Momma!
I love you!
And I was waitin for you!
(Hey!)

I was waitin' for you..
I was waitin' for you..
Momma...
I was waitin' for you..
I love you ma...

N.E.R.D. (officially stylized as NER*D, as seen on their covers) is a backronym that stands for No-One Ever Really Dies.

N.E.R.D. is a hip-hop and rock band whose members include Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, also known as The Neptunes, and Shae Haley. The band was formed as a side project by the Neptunes in 1999. Williams and Hugo had known each other since 1985 when they were 12, and they met Shae Haley a few years later in high school. Hugo and Williams signed a deal when they graduated high school in 1992 and eventually, Hailey joined them when N.E.R.D. was formed.

In September 2001 the band released their first album, In Search Of in Europe. They used digital production for the project but when they prepared for the worldwide release a year later they opted to re-record the album with a live funk rock band known as Spymob. Two years later in March of 2004, they released their second album, Fly or Die. Unfortunately, the two albums didn’t have nearly as much success as The Neptunes production work—collectively the two albums barely broke a million copies sold. In 2005 the group supposedly disbanded because of a dispute with Virgin Records, but Pharrell contradicted this claim in an April 2008

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