The Goo Goo Dolls

Released: February 23, 1993

Songwriter: George Tutuska Robby Takac John Rzeznik

Producer: Gavin MacKillop

[Verse 1]
Why do you stare me down?
Am I wrong?
Should I turn and kiss the ground?
And I never felt that way
I ain't the one and you know I don't come from such a place

[Pre-Chorus]
And I didn't get those things
Those things that you can't grow
You say that it's all my fault
And I don't need to know

[Chorus]
Tell me something I don't know
And I'll find that I'm always looking around behind me
You said that it's all been said before
Now I find that there's something I don't know

[Verse 2]
And I hate your attitude
I ain't scared at all because it don't matter what you do
And I'll turn around to see the truth
You're tearing it down, yeah, you're bringing it down
And it's all on you

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
And I know
I don't know
(Rock and roll)
And I'll stay there
If you break enough glass and there's no one to hear
And your heart's full of hate because your mind's full of fear
Let it go

[Outro]
Oh, so far away
So far away[x2]
(Something I don't know)
Oh, so far away
So far away[x2]

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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