The Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: Robby Takac John Rzeznik

Producer: Tim Palmer John Fields Butch Vig Rob Cavallo

[Verse 1]
Take time to try and find a light, that shines behind your eyes tonight
I found a deep dark place inside
There's more to both of you than, anyone's expecting here tonight
Wish I could make that right, well
They covered up your eyes
They never gave you nothing more than pain

[Chorus]
Now I hear
Yeah I hear
Throwing it all away
Now I hear
Yeah I hear
Throwing it all away

[Verse 2]
Don't make a sound, we stayed away from all the static on the line
I guess we never stopped to shine
I'd cry aloud if I remember, all the mess I'd left behind
But then I had to lie and
They covered up your eyes
They never gave you nothing more than pain
I come around for you I know
Cause I'm feeling the same way

[Chorus]
Now I hear
Yeah I hear
Throwing it all away
Now I hear
Yeah I hear
Throwing it all away
Now I hear
Yeah I hear
Throwing it all away
Now I hear
Yeah I hear
Throwing it all away
Now I hear
Yeah I hear
Throwing it all away
Now I hear
Yeah I hear
Throwing it all away

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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From the albums

Waiting for the Rest of It (EP) (2010)
Something for the Rest of Us (2010)

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