All I ever needed to know about love, I learned form the Goo Goo Dolls. This band with songs such as "Iris", "Slide", and "Black Balloon" speak of the longing that comes with love lost for example in the song "Black Balloon" The singer talks about the fact that "A thousand other boys could never reach you, how could I have been the one." In "Iris" The speaker talks about the fact that regardless of what the world thinks, his love will continue, "you can't fight the tears that ain't coming, but I know you can feel me some how
I don't want the world to see me cause I don't think that they'd understand." In the song "Slide" they speak more of the sexual side of love "I want to
wake up where you are."
Music as a whole has always appealed to the senses and the emotions form the ancient but still popular African drum rhythms to the much more complicated rhythms of the Goo Goo Dolls music has changed but it still revolves around the same basic connotation emotions such as love.......
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