The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: April 8, 2016

Songwriter: Derek Fuhrmann Gregg Wattenberg John Rzeznik

Producer: Derek Fuhrmann Gregg Wattenberg

[Verse 1]
Feeling like a hero, but I can't fly
No, you never crash if you don't try
Took it to the edge, now I know why
Never gonna live if you're too scared to die
Gonna disconnect from the hardwire
Time to raise a flag for the ceasefire
Staring down the hole inside me
Looking in the mirror
Making peace with the enemy

[Chorus]
Hey hey-ey-ey (hey)
Hey hey-ey-ey
I'm so alive, I'm so alive, I'm so alive
You can make it on a wish if you want to
You can make it on a wish if you want to
I'm so alive, I'm so alive, I'm so alive (hey)
You can make it on a wish if you want to
You can make it on a wish if you want to

[Verse 2]
Open up my heart like a shotgun
Blinded by the light of a new sun
Get up, get up, get out and get done
For the first time I feel like someone
Breaking down the walls in my own mind
Keeping my faith for the bad times
Get up, get up, stand like a champion
Take it to the world
Gonna sing it like an anthem

[Chorus]
Hey hey-ey-ey (hey)
Hey hey-ey-ey
I'm so alive, I'm so alive, I'm so alive (hey)
You can make it on a wish if you want to
You can make it on a wish if you want to
I'm so alive, I'm so alive, I'm so alive (hey)
You can make it on a wish if you want to
You can make it on a wish if you want to

[Bridge]
I am no man of steel
I have no heart of stone
Don't tell me how it feels
I'll find it on my own

[Refrain]
(Hey hey-ey-ey)
Never gonna live if you're too scared to die

[Chorus]
I'm so alive, I'm so alive, I'm so alive (hey)
You can make it on a wish if you want to
You can make it on a wish if you want to
I'm so alive, I'm so alive, I'm so alive (hey)
You can make it on a wish if you want to
You can make it on a wish if you want to

[Outro]
I'm so alive, I'm so alive, I'm so alive

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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