The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: June 9, 1987

[Verse 1]
See me in a different light
I think it'll be okay
Why are you so blind that you
Can only see today

See me in a different space
That you'd expect to see
Then maybe you be taken in by
Everything close to me

See me with a different face
That I've had in my past
Criticize the other jerks
Who make this madness last

[Chorus]
See me in a different light (You're so blind)
See me in a different light (You're so blind)
See me in a different light (You're so blind)
See me in a different light (You're so blind)

[Chorus]
See me in a different light (You're so blind)
See me in a different light (You're so blind)
See me in a different light (You're so blind)
See me in a different light (You're so blind)

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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