![]() You find solace in that person because with her you can be yourself even if you are scared and tired of the world constantly judging you and not measuring up to their standards, by having her you have already found the meaning to all of your struggles and even if all the rest is bad, or even if you had to walk through hell to get there, you are completely happy at the moment because you have found the one person who completes you and makes you whole.Įven then, you are accustomed to loss. I think the song is all about having found the person you are meant to be, the one who can truly understand you. 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand. Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive. It’s, like, at least one of the songs I’ve written will be remembered.You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be,Ĭause I don't think that they'd understand.Īnd you can't fight the tears that ain't coming, ![]() Every night when we play it and I put the mic out to the audience and everybody sings it, that’s an amazing feeling. “Because it gave me some confidence in myself at a time when that was lacking. ![]() In April 2022, the song bothered the Billboard compilers for the first time in decades, entering the digital song sales chart at #15. And, as so often happens, social media has given the song a second life, after Iris became popular on video platform TikTok. It remains the centrepiece of the Goo Goo Dolls’ set-list, the ultimate alt.rock ballad and the singer’s best chance of immortality. Ultimately Rzeznik chose to embrace his masterpiece and is meaning. The number of choices you have grows exponentially, like, I can have this, I can have that, I can date her, I can snort this – and I can afford it’.” It never made me wish I hadn’t written it, because now I’ll be able to send my kids to college, but obviously there are by-products of that kind of success that you have to avoid. We started getting more attention, made a bit of money… and it was actually really, really uncomfortable. “It didn’t change us,” Rzeznik says, “but people around us changed. Commercially, the Goo Goo Dolls had arrived. It was undoubtedly Rzeznik’s ballad that pushed the City Of Angels soundtrack to the top of the US chart in June 1998 and bolstered the band’s own Dizzy Up The Girl album, while the song itself began a five-week run at No.9 in the US. So I guess Iris is partly the sound of me growing up.” But as you grow up you change, you want different things, and your art has to stay in step with where you are emotionally. “When I was 18 I played three power chords and wanted to be Paul Westerberg. “But it’s part of your personal evolution,” he continues. “I remember kneeling in front of the control room window, looking out at this 15-piece string ensemble, then looking at Robby and saying: ‘I really think we’re turning a corner here, and I don’t know if I want to’. “That was the first time we’d ever been in the studio with strings,” he recalls. But it wasn’t until he was recording it that he realised how far the song had taken the band from their punk roots. Rzeznik recognised Iris as one of his greatest achievements to date, despite the title lack of personal meaning. I was, like: ‘Wow! What a beautiful name.’ ![]() I was looking through a magazine called LA Weekly and saw that a great singer-songwriter called Iris DeMent was playing in town. “I’m horrible at naming songs,” he says, “so it’s the last thing I do. By the time Rzeznik had ironed out some of the “ugly chord sequences”, he had a swooning future classic on his hands.
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