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Stop The WorldThe Goo Goo Dolls

Released: February 23, 1993

Songwriter: John Rzeznik

Producer: Gavin MacKillop

[Verse 1]
You need someone to hold you
You need something that you ain't been getting
Yeah, I could be the one
To tell you what to do, but it don't mean nothing
And you're holding on forever
But that something just ain't true
I'm just like you
And I know
It's what I'd do
Here I go

[Chorus]
Because I couldn't stop the world because I loved you
I couldn't stop the world and I don't want to
I couldn't stop the world and I won't
Because it ain't enough

[Verse 2]
You had another bad day
You let me know that you just can't take it
I've given up on you
You live in truth and I know I can't fake it
Because the stars you see on dirty sidewalks
And they ain't for wishing, ooh
They don't come true
And I know, it's what I'd do
Here I go

[Chorus]

[Outro]
Am I too young for the world?
I'm not too young for the world
And I can't change for the world
(I don't need to stop the world)
Because I don't care for the world
(I'm too young, I'm too young)
I don't make sense to the world
(I don't need to stop the world)
(I'm too young, I'm too young)
[Repeat until fade]

The Goo Goo Dolls

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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