The Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: George Tutuska Robby Takac John Rzeznik

Producer: The Goo Goo Dolls

[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 you're burning up inside and no one cares
Said you had enough this time cuz time don't treat you well
You always cried coincidence, while I drew parallels

[Chorus]
Life, it seems so easy when it's from my easy chair
And you're burning up inside, burning up inside
Burning up inside and you hurt me
(Really hurt me)
(Oh, you hurt me)

[Bridge]
Try to take my hand tonight, I'll show you where to start
Cuz every word that left your lips is like a needle through my heart

[Chorus]
And life, it seems so easy when it's from my easy chair
And you're burning' up inside, burning' up inside
Burning up inside and you hurt my eyes
(Cuz you're burning up inside)
Hurt my eyes
(Cuz you're burning up inside)
Hurt my eyes
(Cuz you're burning up inside)
Hurt my eyes

The Goo Goo Dolls are an American rock band formed in 1986 in Buffalo, NY, during one of Buffalo’s most prolific underground music phases. The band was formed by John Rzeznik (Also known as Johnny Rzeznik), lead singer and songwriter for the band, with bassist/vocalist Robby Takac, and drummer George Tutuska. Mike Malinin later replaced Tutuska as the band’s drummer.

The band has released twelve studio albums between 1986 and 2017, but they are best known for platinum-selling A Boy Named Goo (1995) and Dizzy Up the Girl (1998). These mid- to late 1990s albums contain the Goo Goo Dolls' biggest hits to date – Name and Iris most notably, but also Slide, Black Balloon, and Dizzy

These hits made the Goo Goo Dolls a household name for radio-friendly “prom night power balladry” (as one Rolling Stone review put it), but the band’s early output was often far rougher musically, melding the band’s edgier punk influences with an often soft sensibility in the mold of the band’s early heroes, The Replacements. One can hear these influences on many songs on A Boy Named Goo though these affinities would fade after Dizzy Up the Girl.

more tracks from the album

A Boy Named Goo

From the albums

A Boy Named Goo (1995)
What I Learned About Ego, Opinion, Art & Commerce (2001)

The Goo Goo Dolls popular songs

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