The Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: Robby Takac

[Verse 1]
Reach
For higher ground
About the way you look
The way you scream out loud
Mine
Just like the last time
It's all the same to me
She said

[Chorus]
Let's pretend
My January friend
I wanted you again
I want to touch you
Every single heart that beats pretend
My January friend
I wanted you again
I want to touch ya
Every single heart that beats

[Verse 2]
Cry
Don't cry out loud
You've got to bear your cross but never dream too loud
And you're tied
Tied to the next time
You realize
Your crimes

[Chorus]
Let's pretend
My January friend
I wanted you again
I want to touch you
Every single heart that beats pretend
My January friend
I wanted you again
I want to touch ya
Every single heart that beats

[Bridge]
Time stood still Monday morning, yeah
Showed me what I had to see
It's not the way I thought it to be, oh yeah

[Outro]
You're my January friend
You're my January friend
You're my January friend
And every heart that beats pretend
My January friend
You're my January friend
You're my January friend
You're my January friend
And every heart that beats tonight's pretend

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.

more tracks from the album

Dizzy Up the Girl

From the album

Dizzy Up the Girl (1998)

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