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Extreme Ways by Moby

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Moby

Extreme Ways

Release date: 1st May 2002

From 18
Track 9
3:58
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About This Track

'Extreme Ways' arrives as a study in emotional closure, its minimal arrangement built around a repeating piano figure and Moby's restrained vocal. The lyrics move through a catalogue of damage and withdrawal, each verse peeling back another layer of hurt. There is a weariness to the song, a sense of someone who has seen too much and learned to protect themselves by shutting down entirely. The chorus, built on the refrain "then it fell apart", becomes a kind of mantra, each repetition a small surrender. Released as a single from his album 18, the track has since become best known as the closing theme to the Bourne film series, a role that suits its mood of quiet, exhausted finality. The song's power lies not in any dramatic gesture but in its refusal of one. Moby lets the silence do the work, the space between notes as important as the notes themselves.

"Extreme Ways" is a single by Moby, from the album 18, released 1st May 2002. The track is 3:58 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Moby.

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Moby

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Lyrics

Extreme Ways

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
All perfect coloring
Extreme ways that held me
That help me out late at night
Extreme places I had gone
But never seen any light
Dirty basements, dirty noise
Dirty places coming through
Extreme worlds alone
Did you ever like it then?
I would stand in line for this
There's always room in life for this
Oh babe, oh babe
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh babe, oh babe
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh babe, oh babe
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh babe, oh babe
Like it always does, always does
Extreme sounds that told me
They helped me out every night
Well, I didn't have much to say
I didn't give up the light
I closed my eyes, I closed myself
And closed my world
I'll never open up to anything
That could hurt me at all
I had to close down everything
I had to close down my mind
Too many things could cut me
Too much could 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 would stand in line for this
There's always room in life for this
Oh babe, oh babe
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh babe, oh babe
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh babe, oh babe
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh babe, oh babe
Like it always does, always does

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Track details

From 18

3:582002Single
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Album
18
18
Moby
2nd May 2002
Track number
9
Release year
2002
  1. 1We Are All Made of Stars
    4:33
  2. 2In This World
    4:03
  3. 3In My Heart
    4:37
  4. 4Great Escape
    2:09

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