The Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: George Tutuska Robby Takac John Rzeznik

[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 Thanksgiving Eve on Grandma's old TV
Dancing roundabout, I'd twist and shout for everyone to see

[Chorus]
Impersonality
It's leaning hard on me

[Verse 2]
Mama's in a shop
Watching little sister by myself
Robbed a wishing pond
In a fleeting bond
Vowed to share the wealth
Scooping up the coins
A warning shot from some authority
Doesn't matter now, but I'll shout out loud for everyone to see
Never got to know you
Did you ever wonder why?
Now it's nice to know you
And I'm glad you're doing fine
Think of all the time lost
Was it really lost at all?
Now I'm so proud of you
I'd love to tell you all I see
Listen hard to your reality

[Chorus][x2]
Impersonality
It's leaning hard on me

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.

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