This song is one of my many favorite Goo Goo Dolls song. And before when I was just learning how to play the guitar. I would always listen to this song and it inspires me to keep on playing. And I always told myself this is the first song I will ever Learn once I knew how to play the guitar. So I guess it kinda makes sense for me to post this song first here.
For me this song could be about so many things - I think this song is about how lies effect a persons life. People lie everyday. People live a lie, like this persons mother. We can't escape from them we've told them and are part of them. People are held back by the web of lies that they weave. People are comforted by lies because they hide them from a truth which they dislike.
I guess the singer was trying to help a girl in this song. Which I notice he always writes about his songs. like Black Balloon. anywayz I really like this song and I wish you will like it too.... ciao!
Lyrics
They painted up your secrets
With the lies they told you
And the least they ever gave you
Was the most you ever knew
And I wonder where these dreams go
When the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming
No one's listening anyway
Your voice is small and fading
And you hide in here unknown
And your mother loves your father
'Cause she's got nowhere to go
And she wonders where these dreams go
'Cause the world got in her way
What's the point in ever trying
Nothing's changing anyway
They press their lips against you
And you love the lies they say
And I tried so hard to reach you
But you're falling anyway
And you know I see right through you
When the world gets in your way
What's the point in all the screaming
You're not listening anyway
