Patty Harrill
ENG 101
Mrs. Vestle
Mon,September,17
Black Balloon
By:The Goo Goo Dolls
In the song “Black Balloon” by the Goo Goo Dolls, there is a very deep meaning that many listeners don’t hear with the first listen. Black Balloon is a song about a woman's losing battle to addiction. The Goo Goo Dolls make the song very upbeat but with a very heavy message. Lead singer John Rzeznik, wrote this song about a friend who overdosed on heroin.
“Baby’s black balloon makes her fly”. With this intro the listener can predict a few things about the song but they still may not understand the full meaning. The Black Balloon is heroine. The Balloon makes her fly because she is getting high off of the drug. This part of the song introduces the drug usage without completely telling you what it means.
The next verse is “I almost fell into that hole in your life. Cause you were the same as me, but on your knees.” This helps the listener to have a better understanding of where the women was in her life. This helps us understand that John Rzeznik, was
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also struggling with addiction just as she was. The only difference between the two was that he had been able to stop and she had not. “A thousand boys could never reach you, how could I have been the one? I saw the world spin beneath you and scatter like ice from the spoon that was your womb”. This verse is crucial to understanding the song. This verse really lets the listener in. If a person stops and really thinks about where the relationship of these two people has gone, it is very sad and unfortunate. When the band sings “A thousand boys could never reach you, how could I have been the one?” This states that he feels lucky to have known her, and been there for her, and to have been her friend. The thought of losing a spouse to something that could have been prevented is heart breaking. The next part of the verse is “I saw the world spin beneath you and scatter like ice from the spoon that was your womb” this means he saw her struggle with her addiction and he saw her at her lowest points, it also explains to the listener that the song is definitely about addiction without a doubt. “The ice from the spoon was her womb” this means that this is what would kill her and all in the same, it is also a metaphor that her world was scattering like ice from a spoon. The chorus of this song is very important because it is the leading point to the woman's death. “Comin' down the world turned over and angels fall without you there and I go on as you get colder or are you someone's prayer” This part of the song is essentially saying that she is coming down off of the high that the heroin that has given her that high. The next part of the verse is “angels fall without you there” this means while coming off from the high she died, she is gone. He goes on as she gets colder. After the chorus the song is now making it very clear that she is gone and the song is now about her death.
“You know the lies that they always told you and the love you never knew what's the things they never showed you that swallowed the light from the sun inside your room” The first part of this verse is referring to the lies from a possible drug dealer or just the people around her in general, lies that would make a person want to do drugs and take their mind some place else. The verse is also talking about how loved she really was but no one ever really showed her love like they could have. “What’s the things they never showed you that swallowed the light from the sun inside your room.” This part is about the remorse he feels. He keeps thinking that maybe he could have helped her or done something to save her from the darkness of the drugs. The darkness took the light, the light was her life, and the darkness was the
drug. The video for this song, a woman is blowing smoke into a bubble. She is blowing the bubble in a public pool’s locker room with the door shut while other women are getting ready in the stalls next to her. The bubble floats in front of her face and she slumps back into the chair in the stall and watches the bubble. The video then zooms into the bubble that she is watching and it shows her on a float chair in the pool. She dips her hands into the water and watches everyone around her have fun at the pool. She is by herself. The video then switches over to the band singing, the lead singer sees her bubble floating around and he touches it and inside the bubble she is trying to escape, she can’t get out and the video goes back to her at the pool again, this time there are people swimming under her and all around her. This signifies that people were trying to help her but nobody could really get to her. The video then switches back to her trying to get out of the bubble, this symbolizes her growing struggle. When the video finally switches back to the water again, the people that were swimming around her are now dead floating in the water. In the final endings of the video she closes her eyes and the people are gone, she then opens them again and lets herself fall off of the float chair and into the water. She drowns. This song overall is about her struggle with the drugs. Heroine addicts will use a black balloon to tie around their arm so they can inject the drug, that is why the song is called Black Balloon. Heroine is what took her life and addiction is a hard battle to face. John Rzeznik lost a friend and she lost her life.
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Considering altogether setting, figures of speech and tone we can finally conclude what is this song is about.