Extreme

Songwriter: Nuno Bettencourt Gary Cherone

Producer: Bob St. John Nuno Bettencourt

Today don't look so bad
Compared to tomorrow
If time is all we have
Then we're living on borrowed
Yesterday's for fools
Who try to, try to remember
Try to remember
The good ol' days
Weren't always that much better
'Coz I'm a cynical fuck
Well, I ain't nothing but a cynical fuck
It don't take much to be a cynical
All you need is love
All you need is what to be
A cynical fuck
Well, I ain't nothing but a cynical fuck
It don't take much to be a cynical
All you need is love
All you need is what?
And whatever you do
Someone's done it first
Though it's sad but true
This is just another verse
If you can't take it with you
Then what's the use?
What's the use, what's the use?
I never saw a U Haul
Being pulled behind a
Pulled behind a hearse
'Coz I'm a cynical fuck
Well, I ain't nothing but a cynical fuck
It don't take much to be a cynical
All you need is love
Yeah, all you need is what to be
A cynical fuck
Well, I ain't nothing but a cynical fuck
It don't take much to be a cynical
All you need is love
All you need is love
It looks like my brighter side
Has gotten a bit darker
I must have stepped over
My four leaf clover
'Coz someone drank my
Half-filled cup of water
Cynical fuck
Well, I ain't nothing but a cynical fuck
It don't take much to be a cynical
All you need is love
Yeah, all you need is love to be
A cynical fuck
Well, I ain't nothing but a cynical fuck
It don't take much to be a cynical
All you need is love
Cynical fuck, cynical fuck
All you need is love
Cynical fuck, cynical fuck
All you need is love

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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