The Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: Gregg Wattenberg John Rzeznik

Producer: Rob Cavallo

[Verse 1]
We keep heading in the same direction
You've become my own reflection
Is that your soul that you're trying to protect?
I always hoped that we would intersect, yeah
You need time to cope and time to heal
Time to cry if it's what you feel
Life can hurt when it gets too real
I can hold you up when it's hard to deal

[Pre-Chorus]
Alive, alive
Alive is all i wanna feel
Tonight, tonight
I need to be where you are
I need to be where you are

[Chorus]
Hey you, look around!
Can you hear that noise? It's a rebel sound
We got nowhere else to go
And when the sun goes down, and we fill the streets
You're gonna dance till the morning to the rebel's beat
You can take everything from me
Cause this is all i need

[Verse 2]
You know that life is like a ticking clock:
Nobody knows when it's gonna stop, yeah
Before i'm gone i need to touch someone
With a word, with a kiss, with a decent song, yeah
And it gets lonely when you live out loud
When the truth that you seek isn't in this crowd
You better find your voice, better make it loud
We've gotta burn that fire or we'll just burn out

[Pre-Chorus]
Alive, alive
Alive is all i wanna feel
Tonight, tonight
I need to be where you are
I need to be where you are

[Chorus]
Hey you, look around!
Can you hear that noise? It's a rebel sound
We got nowhere else to go
And when the sun goes down, and we fill the streets
You're gonna dance till the morning to the rebel's beat
You can take everything from me
Cause this is all I need

[Verse 3]
We are free tonight
And everything's alright
Put your arms around me
Baby, show me how to move you
Cause there's no worries, there's no cares
Feel the sound that's everywhere
We'll take what's ours for once
And, baby, run like hell

[Bridge]
Hey, you, look around!
Can you hear that noise? It's a rebel sound
We got nowhere else to go

[Outro]
Hey you, look around!
Can you hear that noise? It's a rebel sound
We got nowhere else to go
And when the sun goes down, and we fill the streets
You're gonna dance till the morning to the rebel's beat
You can take everything from me, oh, yeah
You can take everything from me
Cause this is all i need
Yeah, this is all i need

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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