The Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: Tim Palmer John Rzeznik

Producer: Rob Cavallo Butch Vig John Fields Tim Palmer

[Verse 1]
If I could give you
All the things you've been denied
Would it change you?
Would you feel alive?
But all that's left now
Are these words that I've been
Trying to say to you now
And together we'll get by somehow

[Pre-Chorus]
All you ever wanted
Was someone to find
The truth you hide from everyone
Deep inside

[Chorus]
Hey ya, hey ya
You're the only one I want
Hey, hey ya, hey ya

[Verse 2]
And I would drown to save you from
The sinking thoughts you feel
And I'll love you just the same
So don't you ever feel ashamed
'Cause we all get tired of fighting
Just to feel like we belong
And I know you feel forgotten
But I've been here all along to say

[Pre-Chorus]
All you ever wanted
Was someone to find
The truth you hide from everyone
Deep inside

[Chorus]
Hey ya, hey ya
You're the only one I want
Hey, hey ya, hey ya
Hey ya, hey ya
You're the only one I want
Hey, hey ya, hey ya

[Bridge]
And you hide yourself so deep inside
Will I ever see, ever see you?
Now I'm the one who's been denied
But I believe in you, believe in you

[Chorus]
And hey ya, hey ya
You're the only one I want
Hey, hey ya, hey ya
Hey ya, hey ya
You're the only one I want
Hey, hey ya, hey ya

[Outro]
You're the only one I want

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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