Peterson Silcox Giles and Grant
Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
Words and Music
Mike Peterson
Other Versions
On My Own
Notes
This is the first song that I wrote totally on my own.
After presenting it to Jim, he composed a guitar part.
Bill actually learned my bass part and played it note for note.
The keyboards are all sequenced. Scott did not contribute to this one.
The title for this song arose while I was co-designing the Rivera TBR1 guitar amplifier. Before starting his company, Paul Rivera had spent years fixing amplifiers, and he knew exactly what their weaknesses were. So, when we had to decide whether to use a cheap part, or a really good part, we always picked the good one and I usually said "Nothing exceeds like excess".
Lyrics
Bop till you drop
And party till you puke
Cause nothing exceeds like excess
Fight for the prize
And never compromise
Cause nothing exceeds like excess
The right way or no way
I'll win or I won't play
The whole thing or nothing at all
Life is a game
But it's not quite the same
Till you're pushing it right to the wall
Full speed ahead
I won't quit till I'm dead
Gotta keep pushing harder each day
Always competing
And never retreating
For me there's just no other way
Craving invention
Ignoring convention
And daring to taste the extreme
Finding a way
To emphatically say
That you'll never abandon the dream
Feeling the pain
When you fail to maintain
The perfection you're driven to find
Constantly learning
Obsessed by a burning
Desire to sharpen your mind
Take it or leave it
Reject or believe it
Preserve it or throw it away
Then you will find
When you're speaking your mind
That you really have something to say
Stand up and fight
When you know you are right
When though no one seems to agree
Courageously state it
Defend and debate it
And know what it means to be free