The Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: John Rzeznik

Producer: Tim Palmer John Fields Butch Vig Rob Cavallo

[Verse 1]
All I
Waited for
Was a chance to
Make you understand

[Pre-Chorus 1]
And tell you these forgotten truths
You never thought were real
And if the world should turn its back
You know that I'm still here

[Chorus]
Time won't ever
Steal my soul
And we're not broken
So please come home

[Verse 2]
Morning comes
And life moves on
And when it changed
You didn't know you belong

[Pre-Chorus 2]
And I'll still catch you when you fall
Through a past that steals your sleep
And scroll these words upon your wall
Remind you to believe

[Chorus 2]
Time won't ever
Steal my soul
We're not broken
So please come home
And if the world
Has worn you down
I'll be waiting
So please come home

[Bridge 1]
I won't let them break you down
And I won't hear the empty sounds
I'm hopelessly pretending
That I know the answer
Angel's light and neon fires
That burn so cold through your desires
And all you are
Is all I need to know

[Bridge 2]
When the world is insane
You get used to the pain
And you don't even know what you feel
And I am like you, all alone and confused
But you know it's not forever

[Chorus 2]
Time won't ever
Steal my soul
We're not broken
So please come home
And if the world
Has worn you down
I'll be waiting
So please come home

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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