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What A SceneThe Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: John Rzeznik

Producer: The Goo Goo Dolls

[Verse 1]
When you're feeling all wrong in the back of your mind again
How does it feel
When you drop down everything's all the same
Oh yeah
Saccharine caffeine nicotine gum
Yeah it tastes sweet but it's not for long
And I just think you thought it would be
And when you're looking for truth on the cover of a magazine
How does it feel
When you found out what you're not going to be
Oh yeah
They give you your image and the things you believe
Open your eyes, tell me what did you see
And I just think you thought it so real

[Chorus]
And how does it feel when you're out on your own
And now it's too late to go home
And it's hard to be free when you're down on your knees
Take it easy till you make it alone

[Verse 2]
Now you're a supermarket punk rock television comedy
Out on the scene
Yeah I bit down now there's no hand to feed
Oh yeah
And all the beautiful images lining your walls
Pop radio screaming down the halls
Now you think you found something real
When it's all about money and the things that you need
Live a big lie and they all believe
Now I just find that somehow obscene

[Chorus]
And how does it feel when you're out on your own
And now it's too late to go home
And it's hard to be free when you're down on your knees
Take it easy till you make it alone

[Bridge]
Take it easy till you make it alone
What a scene
Yeah
When it's all been said before
And all been done
Take it easy till you make it alone
Take it easy till you make it alone

[Outro]
Na na na na na
Na na na na na [x3]
Cause lies weigh more than truth
Innocence looks good on you
Now everybody wants to know your name
Na na na na na
La na na na na

The Goo Goo Dolls

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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