The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: May 6, 2016

Songwriter: Robby Takac

Producer: The Goo Goo Dolls

[Verse 1]
So now you're feeling bad
But I've been thinking of you
They never understand
I'm going to put it in my, my lost book of memories
I'm going to bring it with me everywhere

[Chorus]
I got a prayer in my pocket I'll save for you
I wished a million times but they don't come true
I got a prayer in my pocket for just these times
Got a prayer in my pocket that you'll be mine
I had a prayer in my pocket I need so bad
I'm gonna find some peace if it drives me mad
And I hope one day that you'll understand
(Said you're gonna, said you're gonna)
If you see it all right here
Can't you see it's right here?
(Can't you see it?)
Can't you see the sun's up here?
Can't you see it's right...

[Verse 2]
Come on leave your cares away
Let's shake another, shake another way
Gonna be standing up for how you live
Said you're gonna, said you're gonna

[Pre-Chorus]
Can't you see it's all right here?
Can't you see it's right...
(Can't you see it?)
Can't you see the sun's up here?
Can't you see it's right...
(Can't you see it?)

[Chorus]
I got a prayer in my pocket I'll save for you
(Can't you see it? It's all right here)
I got a prayer in my pocket I'll save for you
(Can't you see it? It's right...)
(Can't you see it?)
I got a prayer in my pocket I'll save for you
(Can't you see the sun's up here?)
I got a prayer in my pocket I'll save for you
(Can't you see it's right here?)

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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