The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: April 9, 2002

Songwriter: John Rzeznik

Producer: The Goo Goo Dolls

[Verse 1]
You take a lot of chances with your feelings
No one really knows what you feel
And fiction is the only way you're dealing
You turn your pretty head if it gets real

[Chorus]
Oh, you (Oh you)
You take it so slowly
And your eyes look so lonely
It's only when you think about me
Oh yeah
When you think about me
Think about me

[Verse 2]
And I got a head don't let me sleep
You got a secret I can't keep
You see a little stranger in your mirror
The girl you never knew is what you fear

[Chorus]
Oh you (You)
You take it so slowly
And your eyes look so lonely
It's only when you think about me
Oh yeah
When you think about me
Think about me

[Bridge]
And all you want is something I can't be
All you want from me is what you need

[Outro]
And I'm saying
You take it so slowly
And your eyes look so lonely
But it's only (but it's only)
Oh you (oh you)
You take it so slowly
It's only (it's only)
About me
When you think about me
Think about me
Oh when you think about me
Oh yeah
When you think about me (oh yeah)
Think about me
Yeah when you think about 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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