Black Balloon

"Black Balloon" is the third single to be released from the Dizzy Up the Girl album by the Goo Goo Dolls. 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). Like many other songs by the Goo Goo Dolls, "Black Balloon" uses an unusual alternate tuning. Several electric guitars used in the introduction and the acoustic rhythm guitar are tuned to an open D-flat fifth chord.

[Verse 1] 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 [Chorus] Coming 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? [Verse 2] You know the lies they always told you And the love you never knew What's the things they never showed you That swallow the light from the sun inside your room, yeah [Chorus] Coming 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? [Bridge] And there's no time left for losing When you stand they fall, yeah [Chorus] Coming down the world turned over And angels fall without you there And I go on as you get colder All because I'm Coming down the year's turned over And angels fall without you there And I'll go on and I'll lead you home and All because I'm All because I'm And I'll become What you became to me