Songwriter: The Goo Goo Dolls

Producer: The Goo Goo Dolls

[Chorus]
I've got an ugly liver from drinking too much
I've got a paper sliver from thinking too much
Oh, I don't want to go on living in this rut
Oh, I think I'll go out and build me a hut, but

[Post-Chorus]
Curiosity has got me
Tied up right back where it wants me
And all the things that you will do
Make me think I haven't got a clue

[Verse]
I've good a real good sense for seeking out the booze
But I can't afford to buy a pair of shoes
And when I get some cash it's already been spent
Oh, I can smoke and drink but I can't pay my rent

[Chorus]
I've got an ugly liver from drinking too much
I've got a paper sliver from thinking too much
Oh, I don't want to go on living in this rut
Oh, I think I'll go out and build me a hut, but

[Post-Chorus]
Curiosity has got me
Tied up right back where it wants me
And all the things that you will do
Make me think I haven't got a clue

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.