The Goo Goo Dolls – Let Love In

General CommentI saw the singer of the Goo Goo Dolls being interviewed on VH1 on one of the music video countdown things and he said that this song is not about a girl. In my opinion, I think it is a message to the world that we all need to just set aside all our anger and hatred and let the love enter all our hearts. It's just standing there, waiting for us to open the door and let it in, but we'd rather hang on to our grudges and our stubborn pride than even dare to dream of loving each other. Face it, people, we are all so caught up in being the best, the biggest, the richest, the strongest nation on the planet that we lose sight of caring about others. Even the poor little war-ridden countries are too proud and determined to despise everyone else that they can't just relax and stop to think of peace and harmony. Millions of people starve in the streets of a country, rich or poor, and all the money is spent on weapons of mass distruction to launch at somebody else in order to wipe them out. Why can't we all just climb down off our bloody towers and concentrate on helping each other? We talk and we talk and we talk some more about how gosh darn nice it would be to have world peace, but while we're saying it we're loading up a gun to go out with and kill the father, brother, son or husband of some person just trying to defend his home. I'm not anti-America or anything, but I really must say that we suck as a whole. We've always got to go sticking our noses in business that isn't ours and invading the homelands of innocent people simply because we can. We're powerful and paranoid, sometimes a bad combination. We had no right to go over and push ourselves upon the Iraqis. No, maybe they don't like us and no, maybe they don't want our help overthrowing their dictatorship and establishing a new government, but that's no reason to go blowing up their homes and killing their children. President Bush said the government thought that Iraq had weapons of mass distruction so they sent people from the United Nations over there to investigate. The UN came back and said, "Nope, there's no weapons like you thought over there. You cannot invade. You have no justifiable reason." But guess what. We did it anyway. We went over and forced ourselves on a country who didn't deserve to be harassed this way. This war has been good for nothing and has only succeeded in robbing both Iraq and the United States of its people. I've got two brothers in the airforce and I'm pissed. Sorry to have ranted and gone seemingly off the subject. I just had to say all of that to demonstrate the message of this song which is simply to do as it says: "Let Love in."

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  @devilslittlesister

General Commenti have to agree with you there.

if everyone was a goo goo dolls fan. the world would be so better in many ways.

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  @monkeywaster

General CommentThis song is such a pretty story. Here's how I see it...
He's in love with a girl who might be a little bit of a social outcast, or maybe she's been treated badly and ignored. But he sees her for who she really is and loves her anyway. "But I know you're so much more. Everything they ignore is all that I need to believe."
He's trying to tell her that he sees what's on the inside, and that's what makes her beautiful. "You're the only one I ever believed in."
She just needs to let love in and let him be there for her. It's the only way to save her. "The only way to feel again is let love in."
How sweet...

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  @musicnerd08

General Commentevery one can see the song in his own way guys ..its just wut u live comes out in wut u hear ..BUT .its naive to say its bout a girl..its bour loving each other ..love doesnt just mean girls..there s more for it than just this..for me ..him being this positive i think it has to do sumthin wiz god ..if u dont agree wix me then at least believe in love..

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  @purplemachine

General Commentamazing song.

you gotta learn how to love on your own
and when you do learn how to love your fear will go away
i guess he's waiting for her because he's always believed in her, but she needs to learn how to "let love in"...her heart :)

see if everyone just did this and listened to the goos the world would be a better place

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  @gonletitslide

General Commentand there'd b so much love!!!!!

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  @clojoe

General CommentTo me, this song talks about how you need to be able to let people in, and let them see you. So more or less what gonnaletitslide said. But it's about him trying to show her that he loves her, and that he thinks that she may love her. But, she hasn't let love into her life. Maybe because of some family reasons, maybe because she was in an abusive relationship.
She doesn't believe in herself, because others ignore her.
Ok, that's what I think this song means.

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  @angelofmusic09

General CommentI think its about his relationship witha girl who'd been hurt before, and was reluctant to let love into her life. Shes viewed by others shallowly, and no one sees beyond her face, and into who she actually is, and he's saying that he'll wait for her to make up her mind about whether or not to let him in.

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  @slip-frawg

General CommentJohn sees her potential and gifts. He looks beyond her external beauty and sees the beauty within. He believes in her so much its the only thing keeping him going. The key to her realising her gifts is to learn to love again and stop playing games, but shes scared because of the pain she has suffered in her past. She gets into relationships but cuts them off before anyone gets in too close. In the End the bigger message is telling us that without Love we can never ever really be who we were made to be, without love life becomes a road to nowhere, we dont have a purpose. Love as much as you can. D

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  @danielpdonnelly

General CommentJohn is gifted for writing such beautiful and understanding lyrics. And I completely agree with danielpdonnelly....such a wonderful song...and seriously, if the world was a fan of the Goos, the world would be so much better...so much more kinder feelings rather than the cynical feelings and hateful thoughts...

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  @LastConservativeFan