Lyric discussion by wheaties409 

Cover art for Long Way Down lyrics by Goo Goo Dolls, The

i disagree...name was soft rock, adult alternative, but NOT quite pop at all...a boy named goo and albums before it are more "grungey" than their latter albums but their more recent albums are simply MAINSTREAMED they're not pop at all... genres describing their music overall would include hard rock, mainstream rock, adult alternative, and modern rock..no pop involved...............................

i think this song is about a girl that left him for someone/somthing else and then she realized she was worse off than ever and wants to come back to him ... "Did they push you out did they throw you away? Touch me now and I don't care."

...and even though he wants her back... "Long way down I don't think I'll make it on my own. Long way down I don't want to live in here alone."

...he's still hurts because she left him and he dosen't want her to hurt him again... "And anything you want, there's nothing I could say. Is there anything to feel? Is it pain that makes you real? Cut me off before it kills me. I never put you down, I never pushed you away. Take another piece of me. Give my mind a new disease."