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Bm
Extreme ways are back again
Extreme places I didn't know
A
I broke everything new again
Everything that I'd owned
Em
I threw it out the windows, came along
Extreme ways I know apart
Bm
The colors of my sea
Perfect color me
Bm
Extreme ways that help me
That help me out late at night
A
Extreme places I had gone
But never seen any light
Em
Dirty basements, dirty noise
Dirty places coming through
Bm
Extreme worlds alone
Did you ever like it planned
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I would stand in line for this
There's always room in life for this
Bm
Oh baby, oh baby
A
Then it fell apart, fell apart
Em
Oh baby, oh baby
Bm
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Bm
Oh baby, oh baby
A
Then it fell apart, fell apart
Em
Oh baby, oh baby
Bm
Like it always does, always does
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Bm
Extreme songs that told me
They helped me down every night
A
I didn't have much to say
I didn't get above the light
Em
I closed my eyes and closed myself
And closed my world and never opened
Bm
Up to anything
That could get me along
Bm
I had to close down everything
I had to close down my mind
A
Too many things to cover me
Too much can make me blind
Em
I've seen so much in so many places
So many heartaches, so many faces
Bm
So many dirty things
You couldn't even believe
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Dan Average |
#1 by Dan Johnson at Apr 18, 1975 at 5:20 PM EST |
| To me I believe that this song has something to do with Moby comparing himself to an angel or another non-human entity making a report of today's world as we know it. It sounds as though he's talking from the point of view of an angel visiting Earth in the form of a human as though it's from a journal or something. jim. | |
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Harry Average |
#2 by Harry Johnson at Nov 13, 1977 at 4:03 PM EST |
| I think it's about temptations. Check out the video here: http://wmt.viva.t-bn.de/Ondemand/viva/ondemand/stars/moby/moby_extreme_ways_dsl.wmv Lots of sensuality. He would stand in line for that. Me too, I guess :( And still we know it will fall apart, like it always does. | |
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Matt Wanna Be |
#3 by Matt Sakrosky at May 10, 1988 at 7:28 PM EST |
| To Ha-Nocri and your dirty basements, I dedicate the following two lines of "Extreme Ways" to you: "ididn't get above the light "closed my eyes and closed myself" You closed your eyes because you wanted to have no clue what's going on around you. Now, maybe you could also heed Moby's precaution mentioned one line above: "i didn't have much to say" Unless, of course, you do have something to say about these extreme ways and not the ones Brittney and her nipples take. | |
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Dan Lead Player |
#4 by Dan archy at Sep 4, 1991 at 3:01 PM EST |
| It's abour recreating yourself I think. He's getting rid of his old way of life through drastic measures. But also he's saying it's good to have a 'renaissance'. "I would stand in line for this it's always good in life for this " I can see why they picked this song for the ending credits to "The Bourne Identity" | |
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mike Average |
#5 by mike duncan at Sep 9, 1993 at 4:17 AM EST |
| i reckon he's saying - i WON'T stand in line for this | |
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†§ean† Average |
#6 by †§ean† at Jan 7, 1994 at 2:25 AM EST |
| the new extreme ways video. yes, a lot of videos use strippers and degeneracy fairly gratuitously, but the degeneracy as depicted in the 'extreme ways' video is supposed to reflect the narrative of the song. the song is about degeneracy and dissolution. so i wanted the video to represent degeneracy in an aesthetically compelling but also slightly malignant way. the only problem being that most video channels have standards and practices that prevent them from showing videos that truly represent the aesthetics of degeneracy. so for 'extreme ways' we had to tone it down a bit. but the presence of sex and strippers in the video are not there for gratuitous reasons. they're there to reinforce the narrative of the song. i guess my hope was that people would watch the video and maybe listen to the lyrics a little bit and that the two would reinforce each other. and i also thought, well, seeing as i play the instruments on the record, why not play the instruments in the video? oh, thunderstorm in knoxville now. time to go and watch some lightning. moby thats from moby.com | |
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Freddy Badass |
#7 by Freddy Timmons at Jun 16, 1996 at 9:46 AM EST |
| This describes me. I think the line says "that could get me at all" not "along". In essence, it's about someone who's suffered, apparantly a breakup, and they're down about it. But it's more than that, the breakup is just part of a larger trend towards disatisfaction and unhappiness. He feels caught up in the trend, caught up in his own emotions, wants out. I honestly think the "stand in line" is more of a semi-sarcastic, self-deprecating comment. He knows he's going to stand in line to do this same thing all over again, and he can't really change that. This song is at heart just crying out at the entire situation. | |
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marc Professional |
#8 by marc at Apr 16, 1999 at 6:54 PM EST |
| I like this song a lot. It was a good addition to the Bourne Supremacy soundtrack. I think, for myself at least, I much more prefer Mobys' instrunmental pieces however. I especially love songs like "Yeah", and "Help Me To Believe". | |
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Austin Average |
#9 by Austin Schrauben at Dec 14, 1999 at 2:42 PM EST |
| I think this song is about alot of stuff he's seen. Alot of stuff that maybe he didn't want to see but he did anyway. And he knew that it helped him later in life. Even though it made him calloused it helped him become what he is today. | |
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Kyle Average |
#10 by Kyle Lester at Feb 14, 2007 at 7:09 AM EST |
| I don't think this song is about anything that is written here, but I could be wrong. "dirty basements, dirty noise dirty places". Did you see this? I think that he is talking about non-commercial life. Those places he goes to are undergroung clubs, with real music, that tells about real life's sufferings that ppl go through and not some Britney Spears 'pinky' music. But life is hard and dark mostly and it affects him badly. Maybe we should look at life from a positive side and make things a little more 'pink'. He obviously couldn't handle too much 'truth'. But it's like a drog and it holds you. Not many of us humans can handle the pure truth. That is what I think this song is about. Could be wrong though. | |
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Andrew Rhythm Player |
#11 by Andrew Clayton at Sep 29, 2007 at 1:03 AM EST |
| Have have a hard time believing the garbage that's been written in almost every post so far. "Recreating yourself"? "Renaissance"? You probably don't even know what that means. Stuff that "helped him later"? "Real life vs. Britney Spear's pinky music"? God, hit them with some brains. For these people, I had to create an account here. I realize that text is pretty much always up to interpretation, and that all of you have the right to misinterpret this song in whatever way you want (well, as long as we don't follow those "extreme ways"), but please read the lyrics. Read some history. If possible, watch the music video. This song is about history repeating itself. About charismatic leaders ensnaring the lay public with hollow promises, about hate-mongering, sewing conflict between groups of people, about killing, and suffering, and how we never seem to realize that today is the same as yesterday, except we're at war with a different country. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" by the Who. You've never probably heard of them. The title isn't really appropriate here because it's "Won't Get Fooled Again", but Moby's song says you will. History repeats itself. Yet we always get in line for it. When we find out that this extreme way isn't going to lead anywhere good, we still feel powerless to do anything about. We look away, we ignore, we let it continue. Eventually, these extreme ways, the totalitarian regimes, crumble and fall, only to be replaced by others. We get right in line, because this time we've picked the good guys for sure... | |
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nick Professional |
#12 by nick Sutliff at Oct 2, 2007 at 11:14 PM EST |
| I would have to agree with Lullaby. I think it's mostly about seeing lots of... bad things, and maybe even wanted to forget it all just to live a normal life? Just a thought. | |
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Avinash Average |
#13 by Avinash Dutta at Oct 5, 2007 at 1:26 AM EST |
| Nee. Wish I could see that video. *notes that site incase he ever gets a video/sound card* But I think this song is about more then that. Unfortunately, I can't place my finger on that, but it seems more to me like rising above the darkness of a breakup.. since quite a few other songs on 18 were about loss. He wants to get out of the rut his ex-lover has left him in, the darkest dirtyest of things... ..I dunno. He's too vauge, but still a genious. xD | |
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Klint Average |
#14 by Klint flowers at Oct 6, 2007 at 8:27 AM EST |
| I remember the night of my brother's grad we were in the backyard taking pictures (he's 2 years older than me). Anyway, he left in the limo with his friend and I needed to grab something from his room, so I went in and he had left his stereo on it, and the moment I walked into the room this song started playing. it fit so perfectly to the night, and I'll explain why. My brother's life, and the family, was changing in an extreme way. My brother was grown up, he was finishing something he had been doing for the past 13 years of his life. It symbolizes him moving on the bigger things, to truly beginning his life. that's what this song will always mean to me. | |
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Chuck Average |
#15 by Chuck Norris at Oct 6, 2007 at 5:27 PM EST |
| yeah i reckon he's saying 'won't' too since moby is usually to upbeat for me, this way it sounds more like, i'm not queuing up for a slap in the face and a kick in the teeth anymore. just like it sounds better as 'troubles with god' instead of 'troubles but god' since god doesn't exist. the cock. | |
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connor Average |
#16 by connor gooley at Oct 8, 2007 at 12:19 PM EST |
| He is saying that after all of the bad things he's seen and has experienced, he's still up for it. He is still up for living life, and taking risks. | |
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bethan Average |
#17 by bethan jones at Oct 8, 2007 at 5:23 PM EST |
| I think this song is about life. The first entry in the dictionary for extreme is :"of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average: extreme measures." I think this song is about being bored with life, and I think moby pegged the entire human race with this song, because even the perfect life; after a while would become stale and boring. So the song describes someone breaking out from the mundaneness of life. Extreme ways are back again Extreme places I didn't know I broke everything new again Everything that I'd owned I threw it out the windows, came along Extreme ways I know, will part The colors of my sea Perfect color me And yet even after he does this, it falls apart and becomes the normal again. "like it always does" and so he, I'm not sure if reinventing is the right word, but I'm going to use it anyways, he reinvents himself anew. Extreme songs have told me They held me down every night I didn't have much to say I didn't give up the light I closed my eyes and closed myself And closed my world and never opened Up to anything That could get me at all I had to close down everything I had to close down my mind Too many things to cover me Too much can make me blind I've seen so much in so many places So many heartaches, so many faces So many dirty things You couldn't even believe I think this part of the song is about detaching yourself from life, because you were hurt emotionally, or because you find yourself disgusted with life. and yet he reminds us that I would stand in line for this It's always good in life for this I dunno, this is a tough song to figure out, I'm not sure whether he's being sarcastic in the above lyrics. | |
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Kornowski - Wanna Be |
#18 by Kornowski - Im не русский, Бог Черт возьми! at Oct 11, 2007 at 12:35 AM EST |
| This song is the sound track to the Bourne, Identity/Supremacy/ultimatum so, I do believe it has significance to the movie. THis song is about changing your self/ moving past extreme ways. Like Bourne has to move past his own past, and figure out his identity along with who he is. | |
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Reece Wanna Be |
#19 by Reece Brown at Oct 11, 2007 at 12:58 PM EST |
| Not that any opinion matters; only his; but I feel that this song represents a life style that he experienced at one time in his past that he felt was casually accepted; but not necessarily what he desired. I would akin it to the "extreme" rock star attitude of sex, clubs, musical experiences with different artists; possibly drugs; etc... Unfortunately, in the beginning, this "extreme" lifestyle was acceptable; but confusing. It was the "Color of His Sea"; The Perfect Color (Him)". It seperated his belief in what he normally accepted; from the extreme pseudo-fun lifestyle that he was experiencing. He tolerated or endured it for a while because it seemed appropriate. It some instances, he even might have embraced it. "Did you ever like it planned?" might posssibly refer to a free flowing life style that has no boundaries or structure. "Did you ever like it planned?" makes me think that spontaneity; or "a take it as it comes" attitude was prevalent during this time in his life. His "I would stand in line for this", and his "there's always room in life for this" acceptance (or sarcasm) may indicate that at that time he felt it was a great and awesome thing to experience or endure. It may have been what he thought he needed; but it soon "fell apart". Over time, I think he realized that the particular life style he was leading was not really ever what he desired (or craved). He came to a point where he had to "close down everything" towards it; or, assumptuously, get consumed by it. He saw too much ""heartache, blindness, and dirty things" to continue. Basically, his better judgment prevailed. As some have indicated, there was a sort of "resurrection", which I think the final statemnet might indicate "...always good in life for this". Possibly, he realized his life style wasn't giving him what he needed; so he changed his ways; and knew that there is also good in life for his newly selected option. Once again...all speculation. The lyrics and song are awesome no matter how you interpret them. I wish I had that kind of talent. | |
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steve Wanna Be |
#20 by steve hoffmann at Oct 11, 2007 at 1:53 PM EST |
| first, two bits of the lyrics are wrong. In the beginning its not "i broke everything new again". It's 'I broke everything real again'. And the second bit that's wrong, later on its not "extreme songs that told me " the correct thing is 'extreme sounds that told me'... The song is the best... It's about being u, it's about suffering, it's about the horrors you've been through..The extreme things you need to do, to believe to survive the things you've seen... And i don't think it's about a "breakup"... Everybody here posts that about every single song...lol | |
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