Goo Goo dolls song meanings

Acoustic #3

This song could be about so many things - I think this song is about how lies effect a persons life. People lie everyday. People live a lie, like this persons mother. We can't escape from them we've told them and are part of them. People are held back by the web of lies that they weave. People are comforted by lies because they hide them from a truth which they dislike. to me this song is about how sometimes you feel like you have no voice in the matter of anything. Every time you think to speak out you begin to realize no one really cares. its very sad but it has truth to it This is another Dolls song about a boy trying to help a girl. To me, the girl seems to have a sad home life, not necessarily abusive, but neglectful ("what's the point in all this screaming / no one's listening anyway"). The father is abusive towards the mother either physically or emotionally. She can't support herself, so she stays ("And your mother loves your father / cause she's got no where to go"). It seems like her mother must have been a woman with a lot of dreams and ambitions before she married, and had to put her life on hold ("cause the world got in her way"). In the midst of all this, the girl cannot be heard. She grows silent in her inability to communicate, and cannot see the world. The boy tries to teach the girl about life, but she cannot grasp it and pushes him away ("what's the point in all the screaming / you're not listening anyway"). She continues to love her parents for what they are and embraces the lies they tell her. I love this song, but it's so sad!

All eyes on me

Sometimes you just want to hide away, and this song expresses all of those apprehensive and despairing feelings. I think that it just shows everything about life.

Black Balloon

This song is about drugs. Heroin addicts wrap a black balloon around their arms in order to inject the drug into their veins. Maybe the guy in the song almost gets caught up in the drug use, or just allows himself to be enveloped in the girl's problems ("I almost fell into that hole in your life"). The boy wonders why he is the only person the girl trusts. He watches her life crumble before his eyes. The "ice from the spoon" refers to the drug that the girl heats on a spoon to prepare it for injection. "Comin' down the world turned over" refers to how she feels as her high wears away. He tries to save her by showing her the love she never felt and that she looks for in heroin. The drug is her "womb," or her shelter from the harsh realities of life. It was this that caused her death, despite the boy's attempts to save her. The lines "And I go on as you grow colder" and "Or are you someone's prayer?" reveals that heroin took her life. Though this is a sad demise, the song ends with hope. "And I'll become what you became to me" shows that the boy has learned what love is. The girl, with all her problems, enveloped the boy with her love and devotion, and this was important to him. He wants to be like that, minus the addiction. The girl taught him about love, an invaluable lesson, despite her untimely death. The first verse: 'Baby' black balloon makes her fly, almost fell into that hole in your life' is about how the drug 'frees' the girl from any worries and from the world, and how the guy is saying he was tempted to fall into the girl's addiction himself. 'You're not thinking about tomorrow, 'cause you were the same as me' could mean that she's not thinking about the consequences of her getting high, as he was not thinking about how much pain he was going to go through by involving himself with someone with issues.
The second verse: 'A thousand other boys could never reach you, how could I have been the one', the boy expresses how flattered he is that the girl chose him ( prob. a lot of guys were head-over-heels in love with her). 'I saw the world spin beneath you and scatter like ice from the spoon' means that he has seen her get high.
The chorus: 'Coming down the world turned over' could mean when the effects of the drug are taking control over her and making her all messed up. 'And I go on as you get colder' means that he watches time pass by as she gets worse and worse.
Third verse: 'You know the lies they've always told you, and the love you never knew' means that the people that claimed to be friends of the girl influenced her into heroin, telling her pretty lies and offering things she thought she never had or would never get (love and joy). 'What's the things they never showed you, that swallowed the light from the sun' could mean this people never told her everything would be just an 'illusion', something fake that would lead her to more pain than actually real happiness ('light' for instance) .
Final chorus: 'Coming down the years turned over' could mean that as many of you already said, the girl died, but it is still fresh in the guy's memory even as the time flashes before his eyes. 'And I'll go on to lead you home' means that one day he's gonna die, and he's gonna reunite with her again someday and they'll be together, free from all pain. 'All because I'm...And I'll become what you became to me' means that the girl, even with all her problems, taught him what life's all about, what it is like to be truly loved. In other words, she gave him a reason to live.
So there .That's my interpretation. But that's just me. I could be wrong.

Broadway

I saw the Storytellers show on VH1 featuring the Dolls, and this is one of the songs John played. It's based on John's experience with his own alcoholic father, who died years ago. It's kind of a lesson about letting addiction run your life. It's a great song - catchy, upbeat - but with a lesson if you listen for it. It's true genius to write such a fun song with such a dark message. Another Dolls masterpiece. this song is about the neighbourhood in buffalo where john grew up. it was very blue collar and heavily polish. john is telling about how all the dads would go to the bars and drink their problems away, never aspiring to do anything or go anywhere- just drink (you talk about the world like its someplace that you've been). they did it because it's what their fathers had done, and they did it because it's what their fathers had done, and so on. and now john watches as the next generation starts to fall into the cycle as well (see the young man sitting in the old man's bar, waiting for his turn to die).

Bullet proof

it's like a girl liked him and told him, but he neglected her. and now, he likes her, but she's moved on.

Dizzy

"You're cynical and beautiful
You always make a scene
You're monochrome delirious
You're nothing that you seem
"I feel this means that her looks contradict her insides, she is so beautiful on the exterior but totally chaotic on the interior....I think he loves this girl despite her deceptive ways......

I also feel that he is trying to lead her in the right direction and get her through life and hates the fact that something or someone that has this power over her and made her basically kill all of her dreams... so he wants to put a stop to this and make her see that he is what is right and his influence is the one she should follow.... I think he still loves her.... and wants her....  

Iris

I think I really know what this song means because it sort of applies to me (and everybody else on the planet).
"I don't want the world to see me/Cuz I don't think that they'd understand." Pretty much sums it up. It's about not showing anybody your true self because you're too afraid. It's hiding yourself behind made-up images, copied from other people and then compiled into one for you, so you don't get hurt. It's about wishing there was just one person you could show your true self to, and finding that person (you think), then losing the nerve. "And you can't fight the tears..." verse is finally realizing you can never show anybody. Or letting a bit of the 'real you' slip. That's the 'moment of truth in the lies'. Nothing feels real because you're hiding, is the "movie" part.
I love this song (and the video) because I really identify with it. This one, and Jumper... i think it is about a guy whose friend is on that awful tumbling spiral of depression. He loves her. I think he called it iris because, iris can be a name, and to me the iris flower is exotic and differs, but with the way its lower petals droop it looks rather sad. The girl that the speaker is worrying about it cutting, "When everything feels like the movies
And you bleed just to know you're alive" "iris" feels like every thing is so dull and trivial so she cuts to feel alive and to deal with feeling left out. I think that this song is a cry for the singers friend to know he cares I think the song is about, a guy falls in love with a girl, but the girl doesn't love the guy back. And I'd give up forever to touch you
'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now

Seems like he watches the girl, maybe talks to her, but she doesn't see him more as a friend.

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

I think he is afraid to let out his feelings, so he doesn't want the world to know how he feels, so he tries to hide it in as much as he can, but soon realizes he cant.

When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am


He knows he cant get her to like him, and he wants her to see him more as a friend, he wants her to know who he is as more as a friend.

 

January Friend

I love this song to and I think that it is about a guy and a girl who's relationship is on the girls terms. She calls him her January friend to show how she only comes around once in a while when it is good for her. Or something like that....please feel free to add to this....