The Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: George Tutuska Robby Takac John Rzeznik

[Verse 1]
Don't take much looking back to know I took my coffee black then
Nothing's different now, but nothing seems the same and it's alright
Your optimistic views, your hundred dollar running shoes and
Carpel tunnel syndrome, we all had a laugh about it

[Chorus]
I'd love to stick around but I got to tell you all
So long
Oh so long
Oh so long
But I didn't want to tell you all so long

[Verse 2]
Don't take much looking back to know I faked that heart attack then
Nothing's different now, but nothing seems the same and it's alright
You always spoke the truth from circa disco Abba boots and
All that showbiz talk, oh we all had a laugh about it

[Chorus][x4]
I'd love to stick around but I got to tell you all
So long
Oh so long
Oh so long
But I didn't want to tell you all so long

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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