The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: May 12, 2017

Songwriter: Johnny Rzeznik

Producer: The Goo Goo Dolls

[Verse 1]
Everyone's angry
No, everyone's scared
And you can't choose a side 'cause you don't really care
How does it feel to be free when you feel nothing?
You got five hundred channels distracting your brain
Benzos and wine to numb out the pain
Why should you feel anything?
It's all so boring

[Chorus]
Oh, all we need is
Something real to believe in
Oh, all we need is
Something real to believe in

[Verse 2]
Putting the pill on the tip of your tongue
'Cause you're trying to be free or you're trying to be young
Someday the summer ends and then you're over
Are we stupid or brave?
Do you think we can save what's left of the American dream?
They say we didn't pay to hear opinions
So why don't you shut up and sing?

[Chorus]
Oh, all we need is
Something real to believe in
Oh, all we need is
Something real to believe in

Dreamin' of a perfect day
The kind that don't exist here anyway
But I can still dream
It's still legal to resist
At least I think it is
Long as my eyes are closed
As long as my eyes are closed
As long as my eyes are closed
As long as my eyes are closed
As long as my eyes are closed
As long as my eyes are closed
As long as my eyes are closed
As long as my eyes are closed
As long as my eyes are closed

[Chorus]
Oh, all we need is
Something real to believe in
Oh, all we need is
Something real to believe in

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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