In the midst of a lover's quarrel with your bae? Desperately want to make things right?

This song could help.

Composer Horace Ott co-wrote it in 1964, after a heated argument with his childhood sweetheart, Gloria Caldwell.

"I was feeling low and this tune came into my head," he recalled years later.

Horace went to the piano, composed the melody, and wrote the chorus:

I'm just a soul

whose intentions are good.

O Lord, please don't

let me be misunderstood.

Then he played the song for his writing partners, who fleshed out the rest of the lyrics.

Soon after, the legendary Nina Simone was in the studio crooning his tune. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood debuted on her 1964 album, Broadway-Blues-Ballads.

And the best part?

Horace's song got him back into Gloria's good graces. The lovebirds have been happily married for over 50 years!