The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: February 23, 1993

Songwriter: George Tutuska Robby Takac John Rzeznik

Producer: Gavin MacKillop

[Verse 1]
I wish I had a saxophone
I'd play the blues until you came home
With a little sadness in your eyes
Now that all my time was spent
In the walk your heaven sent
Thinking 'bout all the nights you cried

[Chorus]
Had a certain passion
And I had silly dreams
A look of vicious actions
Don't close your eyes to me[x2]
Oh, don't close your eyes to me
Don't close your eyes to me

[Verse 2]
I wish I had a camera lens
To film the things my mind had said
Before they reached my mouth and got all bad
Looking at the skies of blue
All day long, I think of you
Even after all the shit we've been through

[Chorus]

[Outro]
Oh, don't close your eyes to me
Close your eyes to me[x2]
Eyes to me
Close your eyes to me
Don't close your eyes to me
Close your eyes to me[x2]
Don't close your eyes to me
Eyes to me

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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