After a long long time I decided to start blogging again... All thanks to this wonderful song by the Goo Goo Dolls. I've loved this song for ages but I got the lyrics only this week (yeah, I've been singing rubbish all these years ;) ). The lyrics are given below and when you first read them you can't figure out what the song is about (at least I couldn't). So I surfed and found out! Answer is given after the lyrics! How many of you can guess the meaning without the answer? :)
Black Balloon – Goo Goo Dolls
Baby's black balloon makes her fly
I almost fell into that hole in your life
And you're not thinking about tomorrow
'Cause you were the same as me
But on your knees
A thousand other boys could never reach you
How could I have been the one
I saw the world spin beneath you
And scatter like ice from the spoon
That was your womb
Comin' down the world turned over
And angels fall without you there
And I go on as you get colder
Or are you someone's prayer
You know the lies they always told you
And the love you never knew
What's the things they never showed you
That swallowed the light from the sun
Inside your room
Comin' down the world turned over
And angels fall without you there
And I go on as you get colder
Or are you someone's prayer
And there's no time left for losin
'When you stand they fall
Comin' down the world turned over
And angels fall without you there
And I go on as you get colder
All because I'm
Comin' down the years turn over
And angels fall without you there
And I'll go and lead you home and
All because I'm
All because I'm
And I'll become
What you became to me
" "Black Balloon" is the third single to be released from the Dizzy Up the Girl album by the Goo Goo Dolls. The album came out in September 1998, but the song was released as a single early on in the following year. This song ranked sixteenth on the US Top 100.
This song, according to the band's frontman Johnny Rzeznik, is about a woman with a heroin addiction and how her lover is desperately trying to save her. He has also said that is about "seeing someone you love that is so great just screw up so bad." Speculation as to the song's subject has included bassist Robby Takac's ex-wife (who overdosed on heroin).
The video for the song opens with a woman blowing smoke into a soap bubble (a "black balloon"). It then focuses on scenes from a 50's or 60's era swim club."
- Courtesy of Wikipedia-
