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The Goo Goo Dolls – Yeah, I Like You
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[Verse 1] / I met the queen of generation fame / I said, "I'm sorry, I don't know your name" / And she stared at me, and she said / "Hey, man, could you tell me your name?" / I
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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 – Day After Day
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[Verse 1] / What if it all ends today / Who to call and what to say / And would it matter anyway? / Navigate between the lies / All confusion multiplies / So many wasted nights
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Tanner Wareham – Iris (Goo Goo Dolls)
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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 – More Of You
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[Verse 1] / You're such a mystery to me / I can never figure you out / I'm always waiting just to see / What you're gonna do / How you're gonna be right now to me / I'm hanging by
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Superstar
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[Verse 1] / I burnt these wings before / I never found a cure for this disease / So I stayed on the ground with all my fears / To keep me company / Time will change us all / The
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The Goo Goo Dolls – War
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[Verse 1] / Love / Look at the two of us / Drifting apart, it seems / Caught in a lonely dream / Now / Twisted and torn again / Out on the edge we've been / Can you just pull me in
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Going Crazy
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[Verse 1] / Television burning my eyes / Nobody here to tell me I'm alright / I'm alright / Every second is a lifetime / Tickin' away inside my mind / In my mind / [Pre-Chorus] / I
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The Goo Goo Dolls – I Don't Want To Know
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[Chorus] / I don't want to know the reasons why love keeps / Right on walking on down the line / I don't understand you and me, baby / I, I just want you to be mine / [Verse 1
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The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You
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Released in 2000, the song was not a big seller, peaking at #42 on the UK Album charts. This changed when Vodafone used it in their “How Are You?” advertising campaign.
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Matchbox Twenty – Push
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“Push” is a song by Matchbox Twenty off of their 1996 release Yourself Or Someone Like You. The song is about an emotionally abusive relationship that Rob Thomas was in with a
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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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Sleeping With Sirens – Iris
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This cover of “Iris” by The Goo Goo Dolls is a bonus track for Sleeping With Sirens' acoustic EP If You Were A Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack.
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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 – You Are the Answer
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[Verse 1] / Searching for truth can be a fool's game / Some people lie right through the smiles / Don't rip the heart off of your sleeve / [Chorus] / And is it wrong to carry on
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Postcards From Paradise
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A postcard from paradise / Delivered by mortal hands / X marks the spot where you lay / Now the sun burns down on the sand / I watched you sleeping / Listened to you breathing
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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 – 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 – Loving Life
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[Verse 1] / Today, there's a pathway / Take the next left down the hall / Meet you halfway / Then you'll have to take my call / I've got a feeling / It's something that you're
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Let the Sun
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[Verse 1] / Cruel man / Don't look down / Down on me / 'Cause you don't see / Caught out in the blackout rain / How much longer will it be? / Build your tower in the sky / While
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Christmas All Over Again
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Well it's Christmas time again / Decorations are hung by the fire / Everybody's singing, all the bells are ringing out / And it's Christmas all over again / Yeah again / Long
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Up Yours
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The second track from the Goo Goo Dolls' second album, “Up Yours” puts the band’s early debts to The Replacements on full display. In its sound and in its rude, bratty lyrics, the
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Black Balloon (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Baby's black balloon makes her fly / I almost fell into that hole in your life / And you're not thinking about tomorrow / Cause you were the same as me / But on your
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Caught In The Storm
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[Verse 1] / When you kissed me, yeah I felt so alive / And every little secret you told me I keep down inside / And in that heated moment yeah we swore we'd never change / But all
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Rebel Beat
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[Verse 1] / We keep heading in the same direction / You've become my own reflection / Is that your soul that you're trying to protect? / I always hoped that we would intersect
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Now I Hear
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[Verse 1] / Take time to try and find a light, that shines behind your eyes tonight / I found a deep dark place inside / There's more to both of you than, anyone's expecting here
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Reverse
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[Verse 1] / And in my ignorance I thought that I found bliss / Yeah, I was drunk tonight when I thought I caught a glimpse of you / Up on the rooftop painting pictures of memories
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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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MOD SUN – Iris
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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 – 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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