The Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: John Rzeznik

Producer: John Fields Butch Vig Rob Cavallo Tim Palmer

[Verse 1]
Yeah, I tried so hard to make it
Then I watched it slip away
The hardest thing we face
Is the silence of the space
At times I feel so empty through the day

[Bridge]
You know you get me through the darkness
And you get me through the day

[Chorus]
Calling out for you again, you always guide my way
Calling out for you, you know you heal these empty days
And it's all because you take me as I am
And it's all because you take me as I am

[Verse 2]
You know I run to find the answers
What I need to find is you
And I don't need anything
No, I don't need anything
Because I know you always take me as I am

[Bridge]
You know you get me through the darkness
And you get me through the day

[Chorus]
Calling out for you again, you always guide my way
Calling out for you, you know you heal these empty days
And it's all because you take me as I am
And it's all because you take me as I am
Calling out for you again, you always guide my way
Calling out for you, you know you heal these empty days
And it's all because you take me as I am
And it's all because you take me as I am

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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