Rest In Peace LyricsLet's talk of peaceSounds so clicheA noveltyCatch phrase of the dayMiddle, indexSign of the timeJust as complexAs water toSomeone saidGive peace a chanceAnd, that's all that we're sayingWhile we're sittingOn the fencePretendingOur hearts are in the right placeBut, your faceShows a trace ofHypocrisyDon't tread on meNow you can seeMake love not warSounds so absurd, to meWe can't affordTo say these words, lightlyOr else our worldWill truly, rest in peaceLet's not pretendTo justifyRather amendWhere treasures lieStraight through the heartPeace can be foundThat's where you startNot all aroundSomeone saidGive peace a chanceAnd, that's all that we're sayingWhile we're sittingOn the fencePretendingOur hearts are in the right placeBut, your faceShows a trace ofHypocrisyDon't tread on me, boyNow you can seeHow to Format LyricsType out all lyrics, even repeating song parts like the chorusLyrics should be broken down into individual linesUse section headers above different song parts like [Verse], [Chorus], italics lyric and bold lyric to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song partIf you don’t understand a lyric, use [?]To learn more, check out our transcription guide or visit our transcribers forumAbout“Rest In Peace” is the first single from Extreme’s 1992 album III Sides To Every Story. It was written around the time of the first Gulf War when the United States invaded Iraq in 1991 as part of Operation Desert Storm. Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt got the idea for the song after seeing footage of protesters holding signs that said, “Make Love, Not War.” It is the most successful song from the album, having reached No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. It also reached the US Billboard Hot 100, where it charted an No. 96, and the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at No. us a question about this songAsk a question *What have the artists said about the song?Nuno Bettencourt told Songfacts “Rest in Peace,” I threw a little bit of an obvious “tip your hat” moment to where it came from the riff was definitely inspired by Hendrix. I was always a big fan. But that was just the riff. The rest of it was very odd. Lyrically, there was a lot of stuff going on we were in the Gulf War at that time, and would watch people with signs outside the White House that said “MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR.” We thought that war is not that simple. Nobody wants war until somebody is invading their country. So we thought about the statement “Make Love, Not War.” We know that America is going into different countries and certain areas, but you hope and have faith that it’s for the right reasons. And when there are genocides and things like that going on, that’s what inspired that period of the Gulf War. We don’t love war – we definitely love “love” more. But it was just saying, “It’s really not that simple.”Who produced “Rest In Peace” by Extreme?When did Extreme release “Rest In Peace”?Who wrote “Rest In Peace” by Extreme?CommentsSign Up And Drop Knowledge 🤓Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by scholars like you who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they is the world’s biggest collection of song lyrics and musical knowledge© 2023 ML Genius Holdings, LLC