The Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: Robby Takac John Rzeznik

Producer: Rob Cavallo Butch Vig John Fields Tim Palmer

[Verse 1]
Caught you stealing things you knew I'd give
But nothing seems to matter in your life
I come around to when I go to miss
But nothing seems to matter here tonight

[Chorus 1]
And it's sad, I'm sorry
Guess you're going blind

[Chorus 2]
Say you're free now, say you're free
Cause' tonight this might just mean the world to me
Say you're free now, say you're free
Cause' tonight, this might just mean the world

[Verse 2]
Well aware of what the answer is
But nothing means enough to fill that space
I'm still depending on the life of it
But honestly, it feels like such a shame

[Chorus 1]
And it's sad, I'm sorry
Guess you're going blind

[Chorus 2]
Say you're free now, say you're free
Cause' tonight this might just mean the world to me
Say you're free now, say you're free
Cause' tonight, this might just mean the world

[Verse 3]
Follow superstitions close
They never fade away you know
Your horoscope, your love is stoned
Let them go now, let them go

[Chorus 2]
Say you're free now, say you're free
Cause' tonight this might just mean the world to me
Say you're free now, say you're free
Cause' tonight, this might just mean the world

[Outro]
Say you're free now, say you're free now
Say you're free now

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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