Extreme Ways is a famous song written and performed by Moby for the Jason Bourne film franchise. The version of the song used in each film varies from it predecessor. The song has been used at the first part of the ending credits on each of the five films released to date.
Relation with the Bourne series[]
"Extreme Ways" is a song by American electronica musician Moby. Released on August 19, 2002, it was the second single from his studio album 18. It is also included on disc one of the American release of Go -- The Very Best of Moby. It samples the drum break from Melvin Bliss's "Synthetic Substitution", one of the most popularly sampled drum breaks in the history of music. It also samples the strings from the beginning of Hugo Winterhalter's cover of "Everybody's Talkin'".
A re-recorded version of the song entitled "Extreme Ways (Bourne's Ultimatum) was used on the closing credits of The Bourne Ultimatum, and released on the film's soundtrack on July 31st, 2007, then later released as a one-track CD single titled on September 17th, 2007.
For The Bourne Legacy, another new version of the song, subtitled "Bourne's Legacy", was recorded partially at Moby's home studio in Los Angeles and partially at Sony Picture Studios in Culver City. To create a new, orchestral-infused version of this song, Moby worked with a 110 piece orchestra overseen by film composer James Newton Howard and fellow composer Joseph Trapanese to record the full song and an orchestra-only version, which were both released as digital singles on July 31st, 2012. This version was also included on the film's soundtrack which was released on August 7th, 2012.
For the fifth film, Jason Bourne, Moby recorded a new version of the song, subtitled "Jason Bourne", which retained the orchestral elements found in "Bourne's Legacy". It was released as a single on July 22nd, 2016, then included on the soundtrack which was released on July 29th, 2016.
Lyrics[]
- 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
- Extreme ways that help me
- They help me out late at night
- Extreme places I had gone,
- They 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 baby, oh baby
- Then it fell apart, it fell apart
- Oh baby, oh baby
- Then it fell apart, it fell apart
- Oh baby, oh baby
- Then it fell apart, it fell apart
- Oh baby, oh baby
- Like it always does, always does
Extreme sounds that 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 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 baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does
Versions[]
Extreme Ways - Moby (The Bourne Identity)
The Bourne Identity Version
The Bourne Supremacy - Extreme Ways (Moby)
The Bourne Supremacy Version
Extreme Ways (Bourne Legacy version)
Extreme Ways (Bourne Legacy version)
Extreme Ways (Loops Of Fury Remix) by Moby
The Bourne Legacy version (Loops Of Fury Remix)
Moby - Extreme Ways (the bourne identity version)
The Bourne Identity - Extreme Ways official music video
Moby - Extreme Ways (Bourne's Ultimatum)
The Bourne Ultimatum version