Slide

Album

Dizzy Up the Girl

Label

Warner Bros. Records

Genre

Rock

Composer(s)

John Rzeznik

Entered Chart

Dec 5, 1998

Peak Date

Feb 13, 1999

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Warner Album Cut

B-Side

Acoustic #3"

Lead singer and guitarist Johnny Rzeznik wrote this song, which is about a girl who has an abortion. Her boyfriend is being very supportive, declaring his love for her and asking her to just "let it slide" and move on with their lives. >> Rzeznik said of this before performing it on VH1 Storytellers: "The song is actually about these two teenage kids, and the girlfriend gets pregnant, and they're trying to decide whether she should get an abortion, or they should get married or what should go on..." >> This continued a string of hits for the Goo Goo Dolls that were not typical of their hard-rocking sound. "Slide," "Name," "Iris," and "Black Balloon" were all ballads. The Goo Goo Dolls performed this on Sesame Street in a duet with Elmo as "Pride." The lyrics were changed to be about things that give kids pride, like helping mom bake an apple pie. The band performed this in late 1998 at the American Music Awards. They were introduced by an unknown brunette named Britney Spears. >> Report this ad Nancy Bardawil shot the music video in downtown Los Angeles in and around the El Dorado Hotel. According to VH1's Pop Up Video, the director used a hand-cranked 100-year-old camera to get some of the stuttery shots and put water over the lens for the blurred effect in the diner scenes. At one point in the video, Rzeznik gets close to the girl in the diner as he's singing - maybe a little too close. He must have offended the actress because, according to the band, she slapped him in the face during the shoot. This was used in these TV series: The Duchess (episode #1.5 - 2020) Bates Motel ("Underwater" - 2013) Dawson's Creek ("To Be Or Not To Be…" - 1999) Dizzy Up The Girl was the band's first album with a major-label producer, Rob Cavallo, who went on to produce several more Goo Goo Dolls albums. Cavallo also produced a string of albums for Green Day and helmed My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade.

Could you whisper in my ear?
The things you wanna feel
I'll give you anything
To feel it coming

Do you wake up on your own
And wonder where you are?
You live with all your faults

I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
So why don't you slide?
Yeah, I'm gonna let it slide

Don't you love the life you killed?
The priest is on the phone
Your father hit the wall
Your ma disowned you
Don't supposed I'll ever know
What it means to be a man
It's something I can't change
I'll live around it

I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
So why don't you slide
Ooh, slide

And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
Oh, May
Put your arms around me
What you feel is what you are
And what you are is beautiful
Oh, May
Do you wanna get married or run away?

And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
Oh, May
Put your arms around me
What you feel is what you are
And what you are is beautiful
Oh, May
Do you wanna get married or run away?

I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything

(Yeah, slide)
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete (yeah, slide)
Little pieces of the nothing that fall (yeah, slide)
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete (yeah, slide)
Little pieces of the nothing that fall (oh, oh slide)
Yeah, slide between the sheets of all them beds you never knew (yeah, slide)
Why don't you slide into my room
Just slide into my room
Oh, we'll run away, run away, run away