Analysis Of The Song Black Balloon By Goo Dolls

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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 …show more content…

“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

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