The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: August 28, 2010

Songwriter: Andy Stochansky John Rzeznik

Producer: Rob Cavallo Butch Vig John Fields Tim Palmer

[Verse 1]
Called you up ten years too late
Just to hear your voice again
I know your voice is still the same
I know that something's changed
My words are choked and full of tears
But still you listen to me dear
And someone's calling you away
And now I understand

[Pre-Chorus]
The time that I've wasted
So bitter and faithless
Is wearing me down now
Down now

[Chorus]
So can you hear me
Or would you sing along?
Or turn me down?
Forget I ever wrote this for you?
So can you hear me
Or has it been too long?
I know that I was wrong
And this is still your song

[Verse 2]
Turn it on and off again
And now I lost another friend
I waded through my darkest thoughts
When I was sure to drown
And now I pass you on my way
And if you stop, what could I say?
Apologies for yesterday
Like a fool I walk away

[Pre-Chorus]
The time that I've wasted
So bitter and faithless
Is wearing me down now
Down now

[Chorus]
So can you hear me
Or would you sing along?
Or turn me down?
Forget I ever wrote this for you?
So can you hear me
Or has it been too long?
I know that I was wrong
And this is still your song

[Bridge]
And all I understand
We're here and gone again
Even through a thousand Sleepless nights
I fill the page with my beliefs
It's all I have to keep
Tear it up and start again

[Chorus]
So can you hear me
Or would you sing along?
Or turn me down?
Forget I ever wrote this for you?
So can you hear me
Or has it been too long?
I know that I was wrong
And this is still your song

[Outro]
I don't pretend to understand
All the things I put you through
And I don't need forgiveness
But I owe one thing to you
And this is your song
This is your song

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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