N.E.R.D

Released: June 10, 2008

Songwriter: Pharrell Williams Chad Hugo

Producer: The Neptunes

[Verse 1]
Sitting here in this white padded room
Imagining I'm a meteor flying out through the distant space
How does tiny speckle Earth destroy tommorow?
So capable of so many things, why make life taking planes?
But I believe that when you lose your route
Choose the sunlight, it could be your guide
No more political dreams, not another excuse
Don't need another love song, we need a love bomb

[Chorus]
To just blow us away, to freaking blow the lights out
Turning night to day, hear it from miles away
Just to make it right now, fuck what the government say
We gotta save some lives now, is that okay?

[Verse 2]
Can't you see? This is "The Truman Show", baby
Cause when they fight, who dies is you
Hold, if you unscrew me, we've got the same gear and same tools
But how you gon' catch it witcha head hanging down?
Whatcha see staring at the ground?
But I believe, even without a clue
You've got sunlight, and it can be your guide
No more political dreams, not another excuse
Don't need another love song, we need a love bomb

[Chorus]
To just blow us away, to freaking blow the lights out
Turning night to day, hear it from miles away
Just to make it right now, fuck what the government say
We gotta save some lives now, is that okay?

[Bridge]
I'm trying to unbind a few
By removing propaganda but
They must have used the devil's superglue
I'm trying to take the machine apart, yeah
What I'm simply trying to do
Is have the reason to take a pause
I've been down every avenue
But everybody's building's gone

[Chorus]
To just blow us away, to freaking blow the lights out
Turning night to day, hear it from miles away
Just to make it right now, fuck what the government say
We gotta save some lives now, is that okay?

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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