Extreme

Songwriter: Gary Cherone Nuno Bettencourt

Producer: Nuno Bettencourt Bob St. John

All the world's a masquerade
Made up of fools and philosophers
Were it to rain on our charade
All washes away, except for our true colors

If any people bothered looking for truth, please
(Stop the world from spinning 'round)
Instead we choose to follow footsteps of fools,please
(Stop the world from spinning 'round)

If nothing's new under the sun for me and you
Won't somebody please...

Stop the world
Stop the world
I wanna get off
Stop the world
Stop the world
I wanna get off

If we forget yesterday
We're bound to repeat it tomorrow
It's not too late to start today
Better off safe than sorry

Do unto those as you would do to yourselves,please
(Stop the world from spinning 'round)
We need more feet to walk in one another's shoes,please
(Stop the world from spinning 'round)

There's nothing new under the sun for me and you
Won't somebody please...

Stop the world
Stop the world
I wanna get off
Stop the world
Stop the world
Where there is love
Where there is love

(SOLO)

Stop!!...the world
Stop the world
I wanna get off
Stop the world
Stop the world
I wanna get off

You gotta stop...
You gotta stop it
You gotta stop...

Stop the world
Stop the world
I wanna get off
Stop the world
Stop the world
Where there is love

Aaah...Stop the world
Stop the world...ooooh

All the world's a masquerade
Made up of fools

Extreme is an American rock band, currently headed by frontman Gary Cherone and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt. The band reached the height of their popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s with original line-up Gary Cherone, Nuno Bettencourt, Paul Geary and Patrick Badger.

Among some of Extreme’s musical influences are Van Halen, Queen, Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin. The band played at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992. Geary left the group in 1994 to form an artist management company, and Cherone joined Van Halen in 1996. The band has described their music as “funky metal” in the early days, but it would evolve much more in the mid-1990s by blending classic rock influences with post-grunge and alternative rock.

They have released five studio albums, two EPs (in Japan) and two compilation albums since their formation. The band was one of the most successful rock acts of the early 1990s, selling over 10 million albums worldwide. Extreme achieved their greatest success with their 1990 album Pornograffitti, which peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200, and was certified gold in May 1991 and double platinum in October 1992. That album featured the acoustic ballad single “More Than Words”, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

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III Sides to Every Story

From the album

III Sides to Every Story (1992)

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