The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: April 22, 2016

Songwriter: Drew Pearson John Rzeznik

Producer: The Goo Goo Dolls

[Verse 1]
I would give what's left of me away
Twist and turn just to hear you say
That you still think I'm beautiful
I'm worth the chance, even still today
The battle plan has left me weak and worn
In two directions, I feel like I've been torn
We used to live without the shame
We used to love without the blame

[Chorus]
We're going up and down
Hold on
We're crashing to the ground
And anytime you're near
I open up again
You reach inside of me
And then you pull the pin

[Post-Chorus]
And then you pull the pin
Oh, you pull the pin
And then you pull the pin

[Verse 2]
We're doing penance for all our petty crimes
On our knees, oh we're just killing time
First we bend and then break
And I don't want to be too late to change
Oh I saw your light, when I looked into the mirror
And then the past began to disappear
You know my lies are full of fear
And can you still forgive me dear?

[Chorus]
We're going up and down
Hold on
We're crashing to the ground
And anytime you're near
I open up again
You reach inside of me
And then you pull the pin

[Post-Chorus]
And then you pull the pin
Oh, you pull the pin
And then you pull the pin

[Bridge]
Your words can lift me up or crush me to dust again
Can't tell if we're flying or falling to the end
Your words can lift me up or crush me to dust again
Can't tell if we are dying or falling to the end
(I'm falling to the end)

[Chorus]
We're going up and down
Hold on
We're crashing to the ground
And anytime you're near
I open up again
You reach inside of me
And then you pull the pin

[Post-Chorus]
And then you pull the pin
Oh, you pull the pin
And then you pull the pin

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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