The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: February 23, 1993

Songwriter: George Tutuska Robby Takac John Rzeznik

Producer: Gavin MacKillop

[Verse 1]
If you never had it then
You don't know how bad it is
There is nothing like it, well
Needless talk, then, I can tell but

[Chorus]
Here comes the day I sit and wait
(Dominoes are falling still)
Oh, it's always something
The bills keep coming, the car ain't running
(As I know they always will)
Now I'm bumming home again
Another day, oh, the mailman's on his way
(Dominoes, a test of will)
Just sit and wait
Always pondering my fate too late (Dominoes)
And then the day goes

[Verse 2]
I bought them from you yesterday
Little buts till you ask me
No one minds, I can tell
Seems I've hid the ones you shall, but

[Chorus]

[Outro]
Dominoes are falling still (Oh, every day)
As I know they always will (I sit and wait)
Dominoes, a test of will
(That's why I'm pondering my fate too late)
Dominoes (And then the day goes)

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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