 A Boy Named Goo |
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A Boy Named Goo
John Rzeznik - guitar and vocals Robby Takac - bass and vocals George Tutuska - percussion Produced, engineered & mixed by Lou Giordano Assisted by Steve Regina * Produced by Rob Cavallo & the Goo Goo Dolls Engineered by Jerry Finn Pre-production and arrangement assistance by Armand John Petri Musicians who contributed: Armand John Petri Long Way Down Oh here you are there's nothing left to say You're not supposed to be that way Did they push you out Did they throw you away Touch me now and I don't care When you take me I'm not there Almost human but I'll never be the same Long way down I don't think I'll make it on my own Long way down I don't want to live in here alone Long way down I don't think I'll make it on my own Never put you down I never pushed you away You're not supposed to be that way And anything you want there's nothing I could say Is there anything to feel Is it pain that makes you real Cut me off before it kills me Long way down I don't think I'll make it on my own Long way down I don't want to live in here alone Long way down I don't think I'll make it on my own I never put you down I never pushed you away Take another piece of me Give my mind a new disease And the black and white world never fades to gray Long way down I don't think I'll make it on my own Long way down I don't want to live in here alone Long way down I don't think I'll make it on my ownback to top Said you're burnin up inside, no one seems to tell You're living from a personalized manual from hell Life seems pretty easy when it's from my easy chair And you're burnin up inside and no one cares Said you had enough this time cause time don't treat you well You always cried coincidence while I drew parallels Life it seems so easy when it's from my easy chair And you're burnin up inside and you hurt me Come and take my hand tonight I'll show you where to start Cause every word that left your lips like a needle through my heart And life it seems so easy when it's from my easy chair And you're burnin'up inside and you hurt my eyesback to top Yeah I'm fadin And I call out No one hears me Never been never felt never thought I'd say a word Weighed Down Safe Now You're naked inside your fear You can't take back all those years The shots in the dark from empty guns Are never heard by anyone Never heard by anyone Yeah I'm hiding in the fallout Now I'm wasted They don't need me don't want me don't hear a word I say Weighed Down Safe Now You're naked inside your fear You can't take back all those years Shots in the dark from empty guns Are never heard by anyone Never heard by anyone Inside your head No one's there And I don't think I'll ever be And I don't care You're naked inside your fear You can't take back all those years The shots in the dark from empty guns Are never heard by anyoneback to top Flat top intervention Bringing home the new invention See it there in pieces on the ground A television war between the cynics and the saints Flip the dial and that's whose side you're on Sleeping on the white house lawn ain't never changed a thing Look at all the washed out hippie dreams And it's falling all around us Is this some kind of joke they're trying to pull on us? Falling all around us I'll turn my head off for a while Tabloid generation's lost Choking on it's fear Used to be that's all we had to fear conscience keeps us quiet while the crooked love to speak There's knowledge wrapped in blankets on the streets A visionary coward says that anger can be power As long as there's a victim on tv And it's falling all around us Is this some kind of joke they're trying to pull on us Falling all around us I'll turn my head off for a while And my dirty dreams all come alive On my TV screen And assassination plots Show me what I haven't got Show me what I love and who I'm supposed to be Show me everything I need Show it all to me And it's falling all around us Is this some kind of joke they're trying to pull on us? Falling all around us I'll turn my head off for a whileback to top When I was three feet tall I loved them all And lived life for myself Falling down for laughs Your photograph Some puppets made of felt Watching life in Oz Thanksgiving eve on grandma's old TV Dancing roundabout I'd twist and shout for everyone to see Impersonality It's leaning hard on me Momma's in a shop Watching little sister by myself Robbed a wishing pond In a fleeting bond Vowed to share the wealth Scooping up the coins A warning shot from some authority Doesn't matter now but I'll shout out loud for everyone to see Never got to know you Did you ever wonder why Now it's nice to know you And I'm glad you're doing fine Think of all the time lost Was it really lost at all Now I'm so proud of ya I'd love to tell you all I see Listen hard to your realities Impersonality It's leaning hard on meback to top And even though the moment passed me by I still can't turn away Cause all the dreams you never thought you'd lose Got tossed along the way And letters that you never meant to send Get lost or thrown away And now we're grown up orphans That never knew their names We don't belong to no one That's a shame But if you could hide beside me Maybe for a while And I won't tell no one your name And I won't tell em your name Scars are souvenirs you never lose The past is never far Did you lose yourself somewhere out there Did you get to be a star And don't it make you sad to know that life Is more than who we are You grew up way too fast And now there's nothing to believe And reruns all become our history A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio And I won't tell no one your name And I won't tell em your name I think about you all the time But I don't need the same It's lonely where you are come back down And I won't tell em your nameback to top I'll open up my head awhile Its been dead for years Must have been a victim of my peers One is for my happiness The other for my health The last is something bigger than myself I ain't the only one to say I'm talking to myself again I'll just start a fight Nobody can prove me wrong I'm right Anti-hero idol with a suicide excuse A thousand other suckers will try and fill your shoes I ain't the only one to say Little pictures in my head Turning inside out again Cause fucking up takes practice I feel I'm well rehearsed Because the past is a bully and the futures even worse You tell me what you fear cause I can feel it like a curse Well, you used to be a folk singer now you're just a joke singer Ain't no smoking dope singer swinging from a rope singer I ain't the only one to sayback to top Well they're shutting all the shops up on the avenue And they're holding up for cheaper Chinese food If I'm older now and have a tainted attitude Why'd those neon lights all lost their common blue And it's not like me to feel so important And it's not like me to go and wreck your day And I never thought I'd see it so exploited Ah but I know that somethin bad has gotta change Well I see them working round the block till six a.m. The thermometer's at minus five degrees And I'm wondering where all that hard earned money goes To her head or towards a shred of dignity And it's not like me to feel so important And it's not like me to go and wreck your day And I never thought I'd see it so exploited Ah but I know that somethin bad has gotta changeback to top Could you talk to me Honestly Cause I never heard a word you said now And I ain't just being mean Cause all we are is what we're told And most of that's been lies It's like a made for TV movie And I just blew my line Someday you never made it and maybe it never will Hey, you never made it Ain't that unusual Now I feel unknown And it's safe that way Are you too bored to care or too dumb to be scared now What's that supposed to mean I'm burned out on some empty reasons Another waste of time There's somethin' that I wish I'd said But I don't think it'd rhyme Someday you never made it and maybe it never will Hey, you never made it And ain't that unusual See I'd love to be you At least then I'd see you Sorry I put them words in your mouth But you wouldn't talk to me And everyhing, I want haven't got I'm sick of everything now I'm not I put my heavy coat on for a while It's freezing in the corner of my mind Someday you never made it and maybe it never will Hey, you never made it Ain't that unusual?back to top Don't take much looking back to know I took my coffee black then Nothings different now but nothing seems the same and it's alright Your optimistic views your hundred dollar running shoes and Carpel tunnel syndrome we all had a laugh about it I'd love to stick around but I gotta tell you all So long But I didn't wanna tell you all so long Don't take much looking back to know I faked that heart attack then And nothings different now but nothing seems the same and it's alright You always spoke the truth from circa disco abba boots and All that showbiz talk we all had a laugh about it I'd love to stick around but I gotta tell you all So long But I didn't wanna tell you all so long I gotta get back to where I belong So long But I didn't wanna tell you all so longback to top I'm a fortunate son of a fortunate son Living large on the wrong side of town Too many friends and the fun never ends Drinking and hanging around I wanna rule the world wanna swallow it whole At least I could kick it all down I wanna kick it all down Eyes wide open I can't see Eyes wide open what you mean Eyes wide open I can't seem to be I don't take the bus and I never walk too far The furthest I got was my own backyard With a fist full of cash that somebody else earned Send me some more when it all got burned I wanna take control wanna make it all mine At least I could kick it all down I wanna' kick it all down Eyes wide open I can't see Eyes wide open what you mean Eyes wide open I can't seem to be You never ever know I'll get what I want if I make up my mind I'm turning you inside out I wanna rule the world wanna swallow it whole I think I'll just kick it all down I wanna kick it all down Eyes wide open I can't see Eyes wide open what you mean Eyes wide open I can't seem to beback to top As performed by the Enemies As performed by The Lime Spiders | |