The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: October 16, 1990

Producer: Armand John Petri

[Verse 1]
What kind of situation have
I brought upon myself?
Some kind of bad reaction
Blamed it all on someone else

[Chorus]
Oh well
Don't pretend like you know my name
Cuz I ain't never seen you before
Don't pretend like you know my name
Cuz I ain't never seen you before

[Verse 2]
You got me laughing at me
Laughing all by myself
I had a drink on Friday
Heard the news from someone else

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
You've got me running
Running far from myself
You've got me coming
Coming home to someone else

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
I tried to find the truth but every word I said came back

[Chorus][2x]

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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