| The Goo Goo Dolls – Black Balloon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| theres to much to say to something like this so im just gonna say...i pity you. | |
| The Goo Goo Dolls – Black Balloon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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and i agree with rosezinbloom above, although i did do it the songs really shouldnt be analysed word for word as you tend to destroy the overall experience of the song. Rzeznik writes songs from his heart and the words can just flow, infact he might have been so deep in emotion that he made the whole song on the spot. half the thinks i mentioned above may or may not have been intended by Rzeznik as i feel when analysing shakespere or whatever or they may have a slightly different meaning to what we think as he is the only one who TRUELY knows the situation. cheers. |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Black Balloon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ok first of all this song is definitely about drugs. Rzeznik wrote this song originally about Takac's wife who was a heroin addict. Although since John broke up with his wife this song means more to him then any other. "Baby's black balloon makes her fly" (Baby refers to the girl. Black balloon is an object that is used to constrict blood flow to ligaments which helps the high take effect.) "I almost fell into that hole in your life" (Quite self-explanatory, he almost got dragged into her abuse) "And you're not thinking about tomorrow" (She is not thinking about the consequences) "Cause you were the same as me But on your knees" (This line is really deep. They were strongly in love. "But on your knees" can be a pun. On her knees asking for forgiveness or on her knees as in although she was the same as him she was below him.) "A thousand other boys could never reach you How could I have been the one" (He was lucky enough to get a girl like her) "I saw the world spin beneath you And scatter like ice from the spoon" (She was loving life to its extent. Scatter like ice from the spoon is also a pun. 1. her world crashed as fast as ice would fall from a spoon. 2. ice is a drug, although the song is not about ice it fits the line and the spoon is used to inhale heroin after burning it) "That was your womb" (Her comfort) "Comin' down the world turned over" (drug abuse again, falling far down and her world is turning upside down) "And angels fall without you there" (He feels helpless and alone. He also feels as if she is gone) "And I go on as you get colder" (He is moving on) "Or are you someone's prayer?" (he contradicts himself because he is so lost, one moment hes trying to move on the other he is praying for her) "You know the lies they always told you" (He is talking about her "drug group" in simple terms, how she was sucked in by there lies. It could also mean the lies the drugs feed her) "And the love you never knew" (He feels hes lost her and that she can't remember the love that he gave for her) "What's the things they never showed you" (The things either her "drug friends" never showed her or the drugs themselves never showed her i.e. LOVE) "That swallowed the light from the sun" (Darkness approaches her) "Inside your room" (darkness so close to her that it is essentially "in her room") "And there's no time left for losin' When you stand they fall heyy.." (the time when she is standing and the drugs fall, she is not a loser but a winner) "Comin' down the years turn over" (he changes the word to "years" for the sole fact to show how long the drug abuse has been going on but also to show that those years have past or "turned over") "And I'll become What you became to me" (He has learnt so much throughout this whole period, especially the magnitude to which he loved her and she became a sort of hope in life for him because he realised how bad her situation was and he hopes to give her the same hope for life that he has). Thanks. |
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| Howie Day – She Says Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i agree with loveurlife although it is an odd situation for the girl. the girl, even though she is in this new relationship with this guy, she misses him. if anyone has watched "The Notebook" i rekon that this song follows the story of that movie. | |
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