From Dizzy Up the Girl
"Don't you love the life you killed" ~Johnny "Slide"
"What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful" ~Johnny "Slide"
"And I'd give up forever to touch you, 'Cause I know that you feel me somehow, You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be, And I don't want to go home right now" ~Johnny "Iris"
"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" ~Johnny "Iris"
"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, Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive" ~Johnny "Iris"
From A Boy Named Goo
"You're naked inside your fear, You can't take back all those years, The shots in the dark from empty guns
Are never heard by anyone" ~Johnny "Naked"
"And conscience keeps us quiet while the crooked love to speak, There's knowledge wrapped in blankets on the street." ~Johnny "Flat Top"
"A visionary coward says that anger can be power, As long as there's a victim on TV" ~Johnny "Flat Top"
"When I was three feet tall, I loved 'em all, And lived life for myself, Fallin' down for laughs, Your photograph, Some puppets made of felt" ~Robby "Impersonality"
"'Cause all the dreams you never thought you'd lose, Got tossed along the way, And letters that you never meant to send, Get lost or thrown away" ~Johnny "Name"
"And scars are souvenirs you never lose, The past is never far, Did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star? And don't it make you sad to know that life
Is more than who we are?" ~Johnny "Name"
"We grew up way too fast, And now there's nothing to believe" ~Johnny "Name"
"Nobody can prove me wrong, I'm right" ~Johnny "Only One"
"'Cause f**kin' up takes practice I feel I'm well rehearsed, Because the past is a bully and the futures even worse, You tell me what you fear 'cause I can feel it like a curse" ~Johnny "Only One"
"Cause all we are is what we're told and most of that's been lies" ~Johnny "Ain't That Unusual"
"Hey, you never made it. And ain't that unusual?" ~Johnny "Ain't That Unusual"
"You're everyhing, I wanna have a try, I'm sick of everything now I'm not" ~Johnny "Ain't That Unusual"
"Nothin's different now but nothin' seems the same and it's alright." ~Robby "So Long"
From Superstar Carwash
"'Cause all I ever wanted's so far gone, And if I had my chance, I'd go along" ~Johnny "Fallin' Down"
"And if I had an hourglass, I'd save the grains of time I spent with you" ~Robby "Lucky Star"
"Well there's a way you look at things, That no one needs to know but you" ~Robby "Lucky Star"
"Like every time the leaves would fall, You promised me that they'd be back again, And I believed in you" ~Robby "Lucky Star"
"You disconnect yourself from it all, 'Cause you know that you're so beautiful and so untouchable" ~Johnny "Cuz You're Gone"
"No one spoke, but we both listened, Heard every word you didn't say" ~Robby "Don't Worry"
"I'd love to beg, see, but I'm just too proud, And I don't even know what to say, so I'm thinking out loud" ~Johnny "Girl Right Next To Me"
"Just the same you know I like the rain, That ain't so obvious" ~Johnny "We Are The Normal"
"I've got ideas, but it's nothing I picked up at school" ~Robby "String of Lies"
"You ask me how I am, I lie and say I'm doing fine" ~Robby "String of Lies"
"Somewhere there's a place a soul can never go, Gray like stormy skies I hoped you didn't know, All our postcards full of things I won't forget" ~Robby "Another Sceond Time Around"
"It was an awkward time, I hoped it wouldn't, hoped it couldn't last" ~Robby "Another Second Time Around"
"And I didn't know exactly what to say, About the things you saw me do my evil way" ~Robby "Another Second Time Around"
"And you're holding on forever, But that something just ain't true" ~Johnny "Stop the World"
"'Cause the stars you see are on a dirty sidewalk , And they ain't polished and new" ~Johnny "Stop the World"
"Started thinking 'bout, The things we used to do when we were young, Back when things were simple, And getting up was fun" ~Robby "Already There"
"He said you've got to die facing up in the world, 'Cause there's too many holes around" ~Johnny "On the Lie"
"Why do you stare me down? Am I wrong? Should I turn and kiss the ground?" ~Johnny "So Far Away"
"And your heart's full of hate, 'Cause your mind's full of fear, Let it go" ~Johnny "So Far Away"
From Hold Me Up
"And if I find that you ain't by me, I'm afraid no one will know the things you see" ~Johnny "Just the Way You Are"
"How could you believe in someone sorry sad like me? I know the deal and I thank you anyways, And if you leave you know I'm crawlin' at your feet, You never get weak when I'm leaning hard on you" ~Johnny "Just the Way You Are"
"One day ain't forever, You'll find your time" ~Robby "So Outta Line"
"Count your blessings and the ones you love, At this point we beggars can't be choosers" ~Robby "So Outta Line"
"Give me a reason now that I can understand, Pick up the pieces now and put them in my hand" ~Johnny "There You Are"
"I've been up and down for you, My suffering extreme, I fell on my face for you, Now I know what it means" ~Johnny "There You Are"
"It's been a long, dark, lonely hall, Between the cracks I can read the scrawl, It's written down in a crooked rhyme, That sold me out before my time" ~Johnny "You Know What I Mean"
"You know but, since then I been back down to the edge, I can't believe the things you never said, I can't explain the words I never found, My whole world should come crashing down" ~Johnny "You Know What I Mean"
"Find a place that feels like home, You know I, I get some clue to where I'm going" ~Johnny "You Know What I Mean"
"I wrote a letter I thought I'd let you know, I'm right behind you any time you go" ~Robby "Hey"
"You say you got no faith in things that you can't see, Well I'm sorry I ain't there with you, but you ain't here with me" ~Johnny "Two Days In February"
"You said that this is crazy, you're a half a world away, Well I'm sitting and I'm thinking but I didn't know what to say, So I said something I can't touch, I always want way too much" ~Johnny "Two Days In February"
"If I could paint in harmony
and colors were words I had sung
If I could climb way up in the sky
where the stars are carefully hung
there are flowers in her backyard that
resemble spots of the sun
and there are times I look in her eyes
and see the woman and God as one
Hold Me Up"
(from inside cover)
From Jed
"And you know it's hard to be, All the things you want me to be, And you go and make it hard on me" ~Johnny "Up Yours"
"I've been around...And I realize it's always the same, All the time...And I realize it's all been unchanged" ~Robby & Johnny "No Way Out"
"You crushed my heart, and I really lost my will, You think you understand the way it made me feel, I started to choke on you, cause I know what you fear" ~Robby "Had Enough"
"When I lay my head to sleep I lay awake and cry" ~Robby "Road to Salinas"
"You keep on reaching for those things you just can't keep, You keep on searching for some more" ~Robby "Misfortune"
From First Release
"Curiosity has got me, Tied up right back where it wants me, And all the things that you will do, Make me think I haven't got a clue" ~Robby "Livin' In a Hut"
"All the flowers I can grow and all the children's tears, And everything I know will vanish with the years" ~Robby "Slaughterhouse"
Other Songs
Interviews, Etc.
"I find myself being exactly who I am at the moment when I pickup a guitar. It's kind of comforting, because I can never sell out. I'm not talented to contrive something like that." ~Johnny (from article in Request April '96)
"With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about which way it goes. You just have to choose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have." ~Johnny (from Article in Guitar World May '96)
"What does an elephant and a bunch of grapes have in common?"
"They both have trunks...except the grapes"
~Mike (gotta love that sense of humor=)
"Dear Mr. Indie Punk Rock Dude,
EAT A BAG OF SHIT!" ~Johnny (from various concerts..you have to hear the rest of the story=)
"You know how neurotic I am? I'm the only guy in the world who has a self-help tattoo." ~Johnny
"People are like, "Oh, you’re so grounded." It’s like, "No, you gotta understand man, I’m holding on to that ground like my life depends on it." ~Johnny
"If you’re looking for the truth, you have to shut up," Rzeznik advises. "Most people I know fill their days with meaningless bullshit, small talk, and trivial diversions just to keep the noise in their own heads down." ~Johnny talking about the song "Truth is a Whisper" on Gutterflower in a Billboard interview
"I believe in anything that causes mass hysteria in children." ~Robby on Pokemon
"I'm trying to picture some little girl whose favorite bands are like Goo Goo Dolls and Savage Garden or 'N Sync going 'aw, that Johnny is so cute. I'm going to buy all his early records,' and putting it on and then screaming and running to her parents." ~Robby
"My karma and charisma brought fame to the band." ~Mike (we love you anyway Mike! :D)
Do you have a great goo quote not on here? Well send it to Kristen
