The Goo Goo Dolls

Songwriter: John Rzeznik

Producer: Rob Cavallo Butch Vig John Fields Tim Palmer

[Verse 1]
You play your part so easily
You fooled yourself again
With your lipstick smeared
Across some face you'll never see again
And I sat there in the corner
Working back my memories
And I wondered if the time would come
You'd get around to me

[Chorus]
Oh oh, oh oh
Living the sweetest lie
Oh oh, oh oh
Living the sweetest lie

[Verse 2]
You made me feel electric
Every moment that we shared
But the lights went out when I realized
You never even cared
So I picked myself back up
I didn't know where I had been
And the thing that makes you seem so wrong
Is I want you back again

[Chorus]
Oh oh, oh oh
Living the sweetest lie, yeah
Come on baby, give me love
Oh oh, oh oh
Living the sweetest lie, yeah
Come on baby, give me love

[Verse 3]
You know you'll never be taken
Your love will never be taken now
I know you're tired of waking
I know you're tired of waking up

[Chorus]

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.

more tracks from the album

Waiting for the Rest of It (EP)

From the albums

Waiting for the Rest of It (EP) (2010)
Something for the Rest of Us (2010)

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