N.E.R.D

Released: August 6, 2001

Songwriter: Chad Hugo Pharrell Williams

Producer: The Neptunes

[Intro: Pharrell Williams]
Check it out bitch
See sometimes
You gotta realize
Where you are in your life
In order to feel good and I feel good baby
Listen to me

[Verse 1: Pharrell Williams]
Walk in the club wit a bunch of thugs
Modify ya brains so they call me drugs
See a hundred girls, get a thousand hugs
One's in my ear talkin' bout her tub
She likes me
She say she needs me
Say she wants me
Cause I'm the shit
Said she likes me
She said she needs me
She wants to see me
Cause I'm the shit

[Chorus]
Now it seems that things are really getting better
In my life
Is it just today or things are really getting better
We'll see tonight
We'll see tonight

[Verse 2: Shay Haley]
Hey little girl wit the tattoo thigh
Baby you look like a slice of pie
Hope my style don't cause you fear
Matter of fact baby, where you goin' from here?
Kiss on me baby
Lick on me baby
But you can't own me baby
Cause I'm the shit
Kiss on me baby
Lick on me baby
But you can't own me baby
Cause I'm the shit

[Chorus]
Now it seems that things are really getting better
In my life
Is it just today or things are really getting better
We'll see tonight
We'll see tonight
Now it seems that things are really getting better
In my life
Is it just today or things are really getting better
We'll see tonight
We'll see tonight

[Verse 3: Pharrell Williams]
Check it out now
Don't look at me like "What is up?"
Said I was a nerd but I ain't a punk
If you talk shit be prepared to thump
Plus Terrar's 4/4 is prepared to dump
Watch out boy
Get back then
Watch how you're actin'
Cause I'm the shit
I'm tellin' you watch out now
Tell ya boys to get back then
Watch how ya'll actin'
Cause we the shit

[Chorus]
Now it seems that things are really getting better
In my life
Is it just today or things are really getting better
We'll see tonight
We'll see tonight
Now it seems that things are really getting better
In my life
Is it just today or things are really getting better
We'll see tonight
We'll see tonight
Now it seems that things are really getting better
In my life
Is it just today or things are really getting better
We'll see tonight
We'll see tonight
Now it seems that things are really getting better
In my life
Is it just today or things are really getting better
We'll see tonight
We'll see tonight

[Outro: Pharrell Williams]
How do you feel?
I feel good
I feel good
I feel good
Girl, girl, girl
Girl, girl, girl
Girl, girl, girl
Girl, girl, girl

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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