Goo Goo Dolls – “Over and Over” – Death in A New, Maybe Somewhat Familiar Light

After their almost total absence from the music industry, the Goo Goo Dolls came back with the music video and release of the song “Over and Over.” A sorta sad/happy combination of musical lyrics about sickness and the eventual release of death, and a more up-beat rhythm. The video to accompany the song is animated and depicts a man finding he has brain cancer, then repeating the actions of going to work, passing out at work, returning to the hospital, then going through recovery, just to go back to work and pass out again. Each time he goes through the process he becomes more lonely, losing his red and green friends, his hair, and his confidence.

“Picking up the pieces out they left you in again

Love is all you want but you’re never gonna feel the same

It’s hard to be yourself when everyone around is changing

Open up your eyes and you’ll never lose yourself again

And we go over and over and over again

Are ya lost in the past thinking what might have been

You’re here and you’re now started over and then

Take it over and over and over again

Turn it up

Turn it up

Old enough to know and young enough to live again

Stare into the mirror but no one that you know is there (that you know is there)

Shaking like its cold and no one’s there to take your hand

I will give you mine and shiver ‘till you’re warm again

So don’t you look down

And we go over and over and over again

Are ya lost in the past thinking what might have been

You’re here and you’re now started over and then

Take it over and over and over again”

The lyrics do speak for themselves. Not many songs deal with the thought of death as ultimate release from repetition and loss, and not many need to. But this does pretty good justice to the topic, and having not heard the band since 7^th grade it just hit me.

Here is a link…