Extreme

Songwriter: Gary Cherone Nuno Bettencourt

Producer: Nuno Bettencourt Bob St. John

Flowers, I sent
Were found dead on their arrival
The words, I said
Inserted foot in my mouthful
So when, we dance
My lead it ain't so graceful
Isn't so, not ain't so
I'm a hapless romantic
St-t-tuttering p-p-poet
Just call me a 'Tragic Comic'
'Cause I'm, in, in love with you
And when, we dine
I forget to push in your seat
I wear the wine
Spillin' hearts, all over my sleeve
A stitch in time
Proposing down on my knees
Splitting between the seams
I'm a hapless romantic
St-t-tuttering p-p-poet
Just call me a 'Tragic Comic'
'Cause I'm, in, in love with you
Nobody, can know the
Trouble I've seen
Nobody, can know the
Trouble I've seen
Nobody, can know the
Trouble I, get into
When I'm with you
Tragic comedy
I'm a hapless romantic
St-t-tuttering p-p-poet
Just call me a 'Tragic Comic'
'Cause I'm, in love with you
I'm a hapless romantic
St-t-tuttering p-p-poet
Just call me a 'Tragic Comic'
'Cause I'm, in, in love with you

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

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III Sides to Every Story (1992)

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