The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris

Very true I feel this way everyday I'm not really fake what I show people is real but I can't let them in I've never really had someone that cares about me well that stuck around anyway this song hits me pretty hard I find it near impossible to show my true true self to anyone

Jumper and Iris are my two favorite songs also. And based on your analysis of the song, i think we feel the same about each of these two songs. They are definitely my "depressed" songs and have helped but me through some rough times. Thanks for your analysis. Makes me feel like I'm not the only crazy one out there.

Iris my interaction

And I'd give up forever to touch you
-I will give up anything to be with you

'Cuz I kno that yu feel me somehow
-You can relate to me

You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
-you the only person that really know me and that helps blocks out my depression

And I don't want to go home right now
-I don't want this to end

And all I can taste is this moment
-cough up in the moment

And all I can breathe is your life
-we are the same ,different person same life
'Cause sooner or later it's over
-as good as this is,everything ends

I just don't want to miss you tonight
-I wanna live in the moment

And I don't want the world to see me
-Don't want anybody to know the real me ,it's to risky

Cuhhzz I dn't think that they'd understand
-They just will judge me

When everything's made to be broken
-in my life it seems like everything is goin wrong/ broke,it alway been like this

I just want you to know who I am
-I want you to know the real me and why I'm like this and where I'm coming from

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
-when I'm depressed I feel numb so no matter how much you wanna cry so I can fell a little better the tears won't come

Or the moment of truth in your lies
-you can say you fine but the the truth about you being depressed will surface

When everything feels like the movies
-life feels like a movie and it gets you thinking what is life, when you over think it it makes you more depressed, (some time I think what is next, they say life is eternal , we'll I don't wanna life for ever but I don't wanna die)


And you bleed just to know you're alive
-your depressed so you cut your self and the blood is the thing that make you realize your living(what's real?)

And I don't want the world to see me
-They won't except me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
- they don't know what I been thru and why I'm like this

When everything's made to be broken
-I came to terms that even if thing are going good for a sec it will get worse/broken

I just want you to know who I am
-I want you to know how I feel but I can't express my sell Cuhhzz I will be judge (internal crying )

And I don't want the world to see me
-I don't want anyone to know the real me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
-they don't know how it feels to be depressed and on the edge of the Clift ,waiting to end your life because your unhappy with it

When everything's made to be broken
-it seems like no matter what I do everything gets fucked up

I just want you to know who I am
- I just wish you knew so it would be that much easer, but I don't wanna take that risk (and at times I don't even know who I am )

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 just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am

-I feel at the end of the song it repeats "I just want you to know who I am".to emphasize I want you to know everything about me from the depression ;cutting my wrist, and all the challenges that I have ;that has me like this (having multiple personality) hanging with different people trying to find the real me ,but for some reason idk what is the real me , I just have been depress led for so long

-KDW

@The Wanlorn

agree! :)

till this day i really couldn't show my true self... (until - one person, but - now i'm questioning my feelings for him... and i don't think i'll ever reveal my true self again to anyone else ... again) :(

@The Wanlorn well done.

You probably already know this, but the music video for this song has clips of the movie City of Angles. Its where Nicolas Cage is an angle and finds a woman and falls in love with her. And in the movie, he has to choose wether or not he wants to be human in order to stay with her. Your explanation kinda brought his thoughts and feelings to life lol. Great movie. You should watch.

@Leah96 Excellent interpretation. I agree, that's how I understand this song as well.

@Leah96 Great interpretation! Very relatable too. I am so in love with a girl that it seems unreal, and I was really scared to tell anyone. It feels like it's not too good to be true, but too good and too true.

Great interpretation. I agree with you. Definitely about the essence of what love really is.

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
And you bleed just to know you're alive

The entire verse is more towards the feeling that you get about yourself when you are depressed in general. It makes you feel like crying but no tears come, like everything others believe about you is something you have convinced them to believe based on an ounce of truth, like nothing is real and your just playing a prewritten role, and the only time your anything you feel feels real is when it hurts.

I know you posted this in 2002, but I'm still really sorry for your loss. You'll meet again someday (:

A while back this happened to you, and I am so sorry for your loss. The pain is unbearable and everything does feel made to be broken. I'd give up forever... It's just cause u want them so bad... So bad that no one can understand. I don't and it just happened to me 2 months ago. My heart is in pieces. Hold on to seeing him again. Talk to him everyday. It has seemed to help me. Though it's been a while u will still be in my thoughts. That many years down the road I can't imagine feeling any better, just tolerating it. It's one of the most ultimate heartbreaking pains, when you lose the one you love. Your soul even hurts... I can't wait to see him again...

@missmiami It's been thirteen years since you posted this, and you're probably not on here very often any more. I am sorry for your loss, and I know what it means when someone who is no longer around or someone who has hurt you isn't in your life. More than that, these things are what make us who we are. Watch Star Wars again, with someone you love. Let yourself cry and tell them why. Cry, not just for him and your loss, but the ways your life has changed since then. :-)

@SweetestSiren Maybe it's a long-distance relationship?? I'm kind of in one at the moment, so I relate to that sense of parting...

My heart goes out to you! I facilitate Grief Recovery programs ... I have been singing and playing this song, because to me these lyrics and music speak deeply ... I hope you can continue to feel that your wife is still with you!

I'm so sorry for your loss. I know the feeling. I lost my spouse about two months ago. It was sudden, so unexpected, so young... He had pneumonia in both lungs, neither of us knew he had it. He was active and happy as ever the day before. That morning I noticed something was wrong so I got him dressed to go to the hospital and he quit breathing on me. Ambulance came and revived him, however too much brain damage had been done due to lack of oxygen. He died in my arms as well. I loved him so much. Friends and family are heartbroken that this would happen to two people who were sooo good to each other. It's a horrible pain, that I would not wish on anyone. It's the kind of pain you suffer through while re-learning your upside down world...I hope things have looked up for you since your post. I'm terrified of a life without my soul mate. Until it's God's timing... I am trying to be patient and (cope) with time... that's about all you can do. Again, I'm so sorry for your loss...

Right on ! I facilitate Grief Recovery programs and this song has such a deep meaning for loss and grief ... it is beyond what you can see ...keep feeling your brother !

it's about a guy who hides his true personality from the world, he doesn't want them to see it in fear of resentment and hate, but then he meets a girl who he becomes extremely fond of, and wants her to know who he is

@LiNkNmark
Word on the street, it's impressions from expressions by the songwriters mother while she lay dying from cancer. Helluva lot deeper than some lovebirds neck deep in hormones, if you asked me.

@LiNkNmark this song was written for "city of angels" the movie. John Rzeznick didn't even want to write the song, he thought it was a stupid idea but he ended up writing it anyways and it became their most popular song. So in other words he is just a good writer who knows what you want to hear. But that doesn't matter as long as it meant something to you.

@supersprm57 that's sweet. :-) all dogs go to heaven was incredible, as well. Have to agree with you there. But who said being a guy and crying over something that moves you isn't manly? I think having the balls to let it out is what makes you a real guy. :-)