The Goo Goo Dolls

[Verse 1]
Look around outside
Ain't nothing to do but hang around
Think about all the stupid things that I've done
I guess I ain't nothing but a clown
If I had a wish, I swear I'd wish, I'd wish for just one thing
And I don't even like to think about all the things my wish'd bring

[Chorus]
Because I just want to be James Dean
I just want to be James Dean
I just want to be James Dean
For a day
I want to be oversexed and underworked and look at me I'm such a jerk
And I just want to be James Dean
For a day

[Verse 2]
Think about stories of the actors and the movies stars
Sitting here watching the old men drinking at the bar
I think about Dean and all the things he should I have tried
I think about Dean and all the ways he could've died
Yeah, died
And I wouldn't give a shit about anything because I'd be such a big movie star
And that don't really do me much good just crying at the bar

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
Going crazy because I'm always all alone
Going crazy no one calls me on the phone
I think about Dean and I know Dean he wouldn't care
If I was Dean I know there'd be somebody there
Yeah, there'd be somebody there
For me
Yeah I think about all the really cool things I could do and say
Then you go and tell me that you found out Dean was gay...

[Outro]
No, I don't want to be James Dean
I don't want to be James Dean
I don't want to be James Dean
Anymore

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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