The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: April 25, 2006

Songwriter: John Rzeznik

Producer: The Goo Goo Dolls

[Verse 1]
You lie awake at night
With blue eyes that never cry
All you remember now
Is what you feel
The truth remains
In midnight conversations
I asked for this moment
But you turned away

[Verse 2]
Sad like a lonely child
Broken the day you're born
I held the light to you
But I was so vain
And you remain
A promise unfulfilled
I ask you for more
But you push me away

[Chorus 1]
And if we feel the silence
Holding this all inside us
Everything means more now than
Words could explain

[Chorus 2]
And if we feel the silence
Leaving this all behind us
Looking for
Something more to say

[Verse 3]
I don't know where I'm going
Only know where I been
But you move through my soul
Like a hurricane wind
We've been so lost for so long
I don't know how to get back again

[Verse 4]
And we're drowning in the water
That flows under this bridge
When you're fighting the current
You forget how to live
And I wanted to reach you
But I don't know where to begin
And you remain
A promise unfulfilled until today

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 3]
And if we feel the silence
Leavin' this all behind us
When it's gone
What will you say?

[Bridge]
How do we hold on? [x4]
How do we hold, yeah?

[Outro]
You lie awake at night
With blue eyes that never cry

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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