Extreme

Songwriter: Gary Cherone Pat Badger Nuno Bettencourt

Producer: Nuno Bettencourt Bob St. John

So you're a self proclaimed messiah
Or maybe a blasphemous liar
A clever hypnotic hoax, a hallowed heretic coax
Who tells these stories so old
No, never the same twice told
Speaking in distorted truths
I see that Thomas wants some proof
Did you come to heal the sick
With one more magician's trick?
Ye generation seeks a sign
While blind keeps leading the blind
So you say, there is no God
Just a clever man's charade
A once upon a fairy tales fraud
Has God made man or man made God?
There is no God
Confused, thy talk in parables
Accused, thou walk in parallels
A simple game of Simon says
This month's flavor sciences
Today's fact, tomorrow's fiction
Leave the rest to superstition
If knowledge comes from learning books
Wisdom comes from discerning looks
A fool that says there is no God
Don't feel for that sorry sod
Who needs proof then he'll believe
I wonder if he's been deceived
So you say, there is no God
Just a clever man's charade
A once upon a fairy tales fraud
Has God made man or man made God?
There is no God

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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