The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: May 6, 2016

Songwriter: Robby Takac

Producer: The Goo Goo Dolls

[Verse 1]
I watch your patience going strong
I saw it in there all along
But there's no records there to keep
Because you took them in your sleep now
And I feel you holding back on the same things that you're lacking of
The simple things keep coming back to me

[Chorus]
And when your voice is gone 'cause you're crying out too long
You know your words were echoing with me
And when you're pushed to tears from the magnets of the years
And the life you're living since you're free
Free of me

[Verse 2]
Thank God for every single time
We got to see a new sunrise
But when the darkness got too deep
You chose to put it all to sleep now
And I feel you holding back all the same things that you're lacking of
The simple things keep coming back to me

[Chorus]
And when your voice is gone 'cause you're crying out too long
You know your words were echoing with me
And when you're pushed to tears from the voices over years
And the life you're living since you're free

[Chorus]
And when your voice is gone 'cause you're crying out too long
You know your words were echoing with me
And when you're pushed to tears from the poison of the years
And the life you're living since you're free
Free of me
Free of me
Free of me
Free of 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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