Songwriter: The Goo Goo Dolls

Producer: The Goo Goo Dolls

[Verse 1]
I've been around and I realize it's always the same all the time
And I realize it's all been unchanged what I find
And you realize there's no one home there's no way out
When you realize you're all alone
Some say, there's no way out
Here today, there's no way out
Every time I'm walking down by Delaware Park
You rarely hold my hand when it's after dark
And all of the places that we go and the things
That we have seen

[Chorus]
There's no way out
There's no way out

[Verse 2]
Some say and you realized that time goes by
And you realized you're still alive, alive today
And you realize you're not going to die
And you realize the sun goes by
Some say, there's no way out
Here today, there's no way out
Every time I come a knocking at your door
You tell me to turn away, pal you're to poor
I ain't a rich boy, I've heard about all that
All the places that I go it's ching, ching, ching

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
And I realize it's always the same
And I realize it's all been unchanged
And you realize there's no one home
When you realize you're all alone
Every time I'm waiting for you in the rain
My mom says our love is sunk in a god-damn vein
I stand around and I think it's going to work
But you look at me like I'm a jerk, oh

[Chorus][x2]

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.