Released: August 19, 2003

Featuring: Clipse

Songwriter: No Malice Pusha T Shay Haley Chad Hugo Pharrell Williams

Producer: The Neptunes

[Intro: Shae] + (Pharrell)
We gotta win (yeah) we gotta win (yeah)
We gotta wi-in (we gotta win)
We gotta win (yeah) cause I'm a win (yeah)
(Spymob vocalist: yeah yeah) (We gotta win)
We gotta win (yeah) we gotta win (yeah)
We gotta wi-in (we gotta win)
See I'm a win, I'm a win

[Chorus: Spymob vocalist & Pharrell] + (Shae)
We will not be the losers (losers)
We won't won't leave till our job is done (noo)
We will not be the losers (losers)
Sorry but we're not the ones, yeah!

[Verse 1: Pharrell & Spymob vocalist] + (Shae)
I will have my eyes focused plant my feet on the ground
I will run through the middle and lay them all down
I'm the carrier of the torch to make my path I will burn
The world (yeah) must learn

[Chorus]

[Verse 2: Pharrell Williams]
I know they are coming to do what they can
I'll stab 'em and smash them, I'll face them like a man
I know I must face my country, I have to face my town
So I can't, let them down

[Pusha T] + (Pharrell)
Look at me runnin', endzone I'm comin
Wings on my back, I be floatin' (Ah)
The stadium loud, my mother be proud
Her eyes is teary, she chokin' (Aaah)
We did this for who? the ones who were true
Supporting this dream that I'm livin' (Aaah)
And for my squad, the whole nine yards
The name of my team I'm defending

[Malice] + (Pharrell)
Sometimes it seems all wrong, I won't stop till it's all gone
As I leap for the long bomb (Aaah)
You know me, number fo' fo'
Blast through life, running back but in slow mo' (Aaah)
I'm a veteran, prize to the better man
Just like the medal lands, ran like I never ran (Aaah)
In this game of life, we gon' play ball
Us against them, we gon' lay them all

[Shae]
We will not be the losers
We won't won't leave till our job is done

[Chorus]

[Verse 3: Pharrell] + (Spymob vocalist)
I'm prepared to go the distance and battle to the end
I will fight through the twilight to see my family again
But the desert is so cloudy and it is hard to see
There's chance that, and that chance is me (Yeah!)

[Outro: Shae]
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah!
Cause I'ma win, 'cause I'ma win
Cause I'ma wi-in
Cause I'ma win, 'cause I'ma win
Cause I'ma win, 'cause I'ma win
Cause I'ma wi-in
Cause I'ma win, 'cause I'ma win

N.E.R.D

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