Lyric discussion by pretty-in-punk 

Cover art for Here Is Gone lyrics by Goo Goo Dolls, The

Ok this song I think has got a really kool meaning, and to me when I read it it's kinda obvious - but maybe that's 'cause I relate it to myself.. Anyway here's what I think :-

"You and I got something / But it's all and then it's nothing to me, yeah" I think that means that he knows that they DO have something special between them, and when things are good, it's like the most special thing ever, but when things are a bit rough it doesn't seem to be so important, doesn't seem to matter as much.. It's like the relationship keeps changing - one minute it's there and then the next it's gone and they're fighting..

"And we wake up in the breakdown / Of the things we never thought we could be, yeah" The 'breakdown' is the phase when they fight.. they wake up to the fact that everything isn't as perfect as they thought.. and they never thought they could ever be so unhappy all the time they're together - the thing they never they would be they are..

"I'm not the one who broke you / I'm not the one you should fear / We got to move you darling /I thought I lost you somewhere / But you were never really ever there at all" that's saying that he isn't the thing that's upset her, she has her problems away from him, and maybe she never was really all that honest with her problems to begin with - which is why he thought he lost her, but maybe she wasn't there because she never was honest..

"And I want to get free, talk to me / I can feel you fallin' I wanted to be, all you need / Somehow here is gone" he knows she's going through a bad stage and he wants to help her all he can, all she needs to do is talk to him. He feels guilty 'cause he can't change how he feels, and maybe he'll feel more 'free' if she talks to him, 'cause then he can understand..

"I am no solution / To the sound of this pollution in me, yeah / And I was not the answer / So forget you ever thought it was me, yeah" That's like she thought all the answers to her problems was love, and she thought she'd found it when she met him. But the problems are still there, and he's saying 'no the answer wasn't me so just forget you thought it was, you have to find the real answers'..

"And I don't need the fallout / Of all the past that's in between us / And I'm not holding on /And all your lies weren't enough to keep me here" It's like the memories of her past are breaking them down, and he's had enough. She's been saying she's happy and she's getting better but he can see she's not, and he's like 'I've had enough, I'm not what you need so I'm going - you keep lying saying you're better and you're not'

Well there you have it lol.. my erm very long view of what this song actually means.. maybe I'm completely wrong, but that's what the song makes me think of whenever I hear it