 Genius Lyrics
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
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“Iris” was written for the 1998 film City of Angels starring Nicolas Cage. John Rzeznik explained:
When I wrote it, I was thinking about the situation of the Nicolas Cage
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Past Mistakes
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[Verse 1] / No one can help you now / You ain't willing to learn, not then, not now / You're goin' slow, not standing still / You're ripe upon your window sill / You're going
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Black Balloon
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According to lead singer Johnny Rzeznik, “Black Balloon” is about a woman struggling with heroin addiction and her lover trying to save her.
Rzeznik also said that the song is
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Beautiful Lie
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[Verse 1] / Wake up / We had the time of our lives / Lost the rest of our minds / And all your makeup / Faded down from your eyes / Now I could see what's behind / [Pre-Chorus
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Become
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[Verse 1] / So much more about you that you never let them see / You turned away, but not to me / And I know how they tried to take you / Held you up and meant to break you down
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Lazy Eye
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[Verse 1] / The world spins around the secret lives / Of everyone that needs to hide (yeah, hide) / A cheap parade of endless lies / Filters through this lazy eye / [Chorus] / And
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The Goo Goo Dolls – All Eyes On Me
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[Verse 1] / Daylight burns your sleepy eyes / And it's hard to see you dreaming / You hide inside yourself / And I wonder what you're thinking / And everything you're chasing / It
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Eyes Wide Open
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[Verse 1] / I'm a fortunate son of a fortunate son / Living large on the wrong side of town / Too many friends and the fun never ends / Drinking and hanging around / I wanna rule
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Broadway
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This song was written about a Broadway street in Buffalo, NY. According to John Rzeznik, there was a bar and a church on every corner, and a lot of the blue collar workers spent
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Better Days
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“Better Days” is a song recorded by the Goo Goo Dolls, released as the lead single from their album, Let Love In. The song was a moderate hit, peaking at number 36 on the US
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Stop The World
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[Verse 1] / You need someone to hold you / You need something that you ain't been getting / Yeah, I could be the one / To tell you what to do, but it don't mean nothing / And you'
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Slow It Down
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[Chorus] / Oh I want you now / So please don't let me down / Oh just shut your mouth / And know that you are everything to me / Can we just let go / Of what we can't control / And
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Bullet Proof
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[Verse 1] / Do you listen to yourself? / Never live for someone else / Do you like the way you feel? / Nothing hurts when no one's real / She wants to shake this scene / Yeah, she
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Torn Apart
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[Verse 1] / Well, I went down to your house / Just the other day / Only to discover / You had gone astray / [Chorus] / Torn apart / Torn apart / Torn apart / Torn apart / [Verse 2
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Impersonality
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[Verse 1] / When I was three feet tall / I loved the mall / And lived life for myself / Falling down for laughs / Your photograph / Some puppets made of felt / Watching life in Oz
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Sympathy
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[Verse 1] / Stranger than your sympathy / And this is my apology / I killed myself from the inside out / And all my fears have pushed you out / And I wished for things that i don't
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Only One
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[Verse 1] / I'll open up my head awhile / Its been dead for years / Must've been a victim of my peers / One is for my happiness / The other for my health / The last is something
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Amigone
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[Verse 1] / Everytime you point your finger / Three more point right back at you / I'm not saying that there's something wrong with life / Cause that's a sad excuse / And age old
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Indestructible
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[Verse 1] / I was searching for anything but me / I was waiting for somebody to feel what I feel / I guess everything I knew fell apart all around me / I was running from something
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Over You
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[Verse 1] / Memories that can’t replace / The feeling of you next to me / Pictures of your smiling face / These old mistakes feel new again / (Mm-mm-mm) / (Mm-mm-mm) / Haven’t seen
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Home
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[Verse 1] / A crowded room is full of empty faces / The deepest conversation full of lies / Another night with all my friends / The kind you never see again / I wonder if they'll
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Use Me
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[Verse 1] / I may put you on a pedestal / But I'm not your fall from grace / Maybe I enjoy the punishment / Maybe I enjoy the chase / You say you love me in the darkness / But in
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The Goo Goo Dolls – The Pin
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[Verse 1] / I would give what's left of me away / Twist and turn just to hear you say / That you still think I'm beautiful / I'm worth the chance, even still today / The battle
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy
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[Verse 1] / You're cynical and beautiful / You always make a scene / You're monochrome, delirious / You're nothing that you seem / I'm drowning in your vanity / Your laugh is a
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Acoustic #3
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[Verse 1] / They painted up your secrets / With the lies they told to you / And the least they ever gave you / Was the most you ever knew / And I wonder where these dreams go
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Real
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[Verse 1] / You read the news / Turns you inside out / And everybody feels / The same as you / And uncertain times / The uncertain rules apply / Caught in the blind spot / Of
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Messed Up
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[Chorus] / Messed up yeah / Messed up yeah / Messed up yeah / Messed, up, messed / [Chorus] / Messed up yeah / Messed up yeah / Messed up yeah / Messed, up, messed / [Chorus
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Without You Here
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[Verse 1] / Your love's a gathered storm I chased across the sky / A moment in your arms became the reason why / And you're still the only light that fills the emptiness / The only
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Disconnected
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Along with “Slave Girl” (the album closer), the penultimate track on the Goo Goo Dolls' fifth studio album is a cover, this one of defunct punk rock outfit and fellow Buffalo
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The Goo Goo Dolls – So Alive
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[Verse 1] / Feeling like a hero, but I can't fly / No, you never crash if you don't try / Took it to the edge, now I know why / Never gonna live if you're too scared to die / Gonna
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Flat Top
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[Verse 1] / Flat top intervention / Bringing home the new invention / See it there in pieces on the ground / A television war between the cynics and the saints / Flip the dial and
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Burnin' Up
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[Verse] / Said you're burning up inside and no one seems to tell / You're living from a personalized manual from hell / Life seems pretty easy when it's from my easy chair / And
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris (Acoustic)
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[Verse 1] / And I'd give up forever to touch you / 'Cause I know that you feel me somehow / You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be / And I don't wanna go home right now / [
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The Goo Goo Dolls – As I Am
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[Verse 1] / Yeah, I tried so hard to make it / Then I watched it slip away / The hardest thing to face / Is the silence in the space / At times I feel so empty through the day / [
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Boxes
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[Verse 1] / I need a family to drive me crazy / Call me out when I'm low and lazy / It won't be perfect, but we'll be fine / 'Cause I've got your back, and you've got mine / You
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The Goo Goo Dolls & O.A.R. – I Won't Back Down
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[Verse 1: The Goo Goo Dolls, O.A.R.] / Well, I won't back down / No, I won't back down / You can stand me up at the gates of hell / But I won't back down / No, I'll stand my ground
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Think About Me
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[Verse 1] / You take a lot of chances with your feelings / No one really knows what you feel / And fiction is the only way you're dealing / You turn your pretty head if it gets
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The Goo Goo Dolls – We Are The Normal
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The seventh track on Superstar Car Wash was co-written by the Goo Goo Dolls and one of their early rock idols, Paul Westerberg of The Replacements. As Rzeznik said in an interview
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Here Is Gone
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This a relatively angry, passive aggressive break-up song about a girl that has being lying to him and he wants out of his life for good.
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Tattered Edge / You Should Be Happy
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[Verse 1] / Everyone's angry / No, everyone's scared / And you can't choose a side 'cause you don't really care / How does it feel to be free when you feel nothing? / You got five
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Big Machine
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[Verse 1] / Ecstasy is all you need / Livin' in the big machine now / Oh, you're so vain / Now your world is way too fast / Nothing's real and nothing lasts / And I'm aware / I'm
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