Extreme

Released: February 7, 1995

Songwriter: Nuno Bettencourt Gary Cherone Mike Mangini

Producer: Bob St. John Nuno Bettencourt

As for this song
I'll set the mood
There's nothing wrong
Prefer solitude

Alone to think
Of what I don't know
The deeper I sink
The further I'll go

Nothing to fear
No need to hide
I'm already there
Came in from outside

Safe in my nest
My home sweet home
No invited guests
I just love to be alone

Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
(I wish you would leave me alone)
(I wish you would leave me alone)
I just want to be alone

It's better this way
No one will get hurt
If you stay away
I won't lose my shirt

If I've become
Too defensive
I'm not the one
You're livin' with

Leave me alone
(I wish you would leave me alone)
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
(I wish you would leave me alone)
(I wish you would leave me alone)
I just want to be alone

Leave me alone
(I wish you would leave me alone)
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
(I wish you would leave me alone)
(I wish you would leave me alone)
I just want to be alone
Leave me alone

I wanna be
I wanna be
I wanna be alone
I wanna be
I wanna be
I wanna be

[Guitar Solo]

Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
I just want to be alone

Don't feel sorry
It's not your concern
Only the lonely
Are ones who get burned

Safe in my nest
My home sweet home
No invited guests
I just want, I just want
I just wanna be alone

(I wish you would leave me alone)
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
(I wish you would leave me alone)
(I wish you would leave me alone)
I just want to be alone

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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