A lot of times we post the first hits by bands. This was one of the last songs by the Goo Goo Dolls that wasn't a gigantic hit - and on the first album where Johnny Rzeznik was primary lead vocalist (he had previously been an occasional vocalist and fulltime guitarist), which set up the big stardom to come. This song is far more straight-ahead rock and less acoustic-driven than their later hits, but that doesn't make it bad. Lyrically, it is a song of despair and anguish over a breakup.
Primarily filmed at what was Pilot Field in downtown Buffalo, NY, the band's hometown, the band's first ever video serves as a tribute to Buffalo, showing a lot of familiar sites around the city (yes, I can mentally drive the first few seconds of the video). Bit of an "inside baseball" fact for someone who spent a fair amount of growing up in the Buffalo area - at 2:27, the video is filmed ON the border between the United States and Canada - something of a no-man's land, between the two flags on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls.
So, since they're big hit makers, I'm sure they don't play their old stuff anymore, right?
Wrong.
Wrong.
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