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King of the LadiesExtreme

Released: August 12, 2008

Songwriter: Gary Cherone Nuno Bettencourt

Producer: Nuno Bettencourt

Let me introduce you to my time machine
See my souped up bird spread her golden wings
Going back in black through my neighborhood
My main street middle class Hollywood

Jenny's all jet-set 'Purple Rain' cassette
Looking like she was the queen of the '80s
And if I knew back then what I know right now
Yeah, you know I'd be the king of the ladies

If I knew back then what I know right now
You know I'd be the king of the ladies
Yeah, if I knew back then what I know right now
There'd be no ifs, ands, buts and no maybes

Just an average Joe makin' minimum wage
Burger flipping on the beach instead of hitting the waves
While the girls walk by with their copper tone tan
Sucker punching the clocks, stop working for the man

Well, there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
Oh Candy, oh would you save me?
If I knew back then what I know right now
You know I'd be the king of the ladies

If I knew back then what I know right now
You know I'd be the king of the ladies
Yeah, if I knew back then what I know right now
There'd be no ifs, ands, buts and no maybes

If I knew back then what I know right now
You know I'd be the king of the ladies
Yeah, if I knew back then what I know right now
There'd be no ifs, ands, buts and no maybes

I walked into the dance in the high school gym
This girl with drop dead legs, I'm moving in
You know it must've been the DJ spinning "Billy Jean"
I tapped Nikki on the shoulder told her dance with me

Was like that scene from 'Grease' the way we bumped to the beat
I had the girl give me the slip, she got away from me
'Cause if I knew back then what I know right now
You know I'd have the pick of the ladies

If I knew back then what I know right now
You know I'd be the king of the ladies
Yeah, if I knew back then what I know right now
There'd be no ifs, ands, buts and no maybes

If I knew back then what I know right now
You know I'd be the king of the ladies
Yeah, if I knew back then what I know right now
There'd be no ifs, ands, buts and no maybes

If I knew back then what I know right now
You know I'd be the king of the ladies
Yeah, if I knew back then what I know right now
There'd be no ifs, ands, buts and no maybes

If I knew back then what I know right now
You know I'd be the king of the ladies
If I knew back then what I know right now
There'd be no ifs, ands, buts and no maybes

Extreme

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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