#the Goo Goo Dolls

[avelera]

*Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls comes on*

Me: I’m super normal about this. Watch me be super normal about this song.

[best-overplayed-song]

[veyveyx]

IRIS

luke castellan― iris, the goo goo dolls. reader is a god.

luke would give up forever just to touch you, the only god who had given him their time and looked at him as more than a weapon.

he knew that you felt him and heard him when he used to slide his food into the fire and prayed to you.

you were the closest to heaven that he'd ever be and right now, that was fine for him.

all he could taste was the moment. the moment where you graced him in his dream, pulling him through fields of strawberries and let him breathe in your life.

and it was over sooner rather than later, he used the dagger, that cursed blade to kill himself and save the world from kronos.

he didn't want to miss you that night.

luke didn't want the world to see him, cause he didn't think they'd understand. when everything was made to be broken, he just wanted you to know who he really was.

he couldn't fight the tears that weren't coming. or the small moment of truth that weaved itself in his lies.

everything felt like those movies he'd watch with annabeth.

yeah, he bled just so he could know you were alive.

he didn't want you to see him. luke didn't think you'd understand. when everything about him was made to be broken, he just wanted you to know who he really was. who he was under all the hurt and all the lies.

you didn't want the world to see you, because you didn't think they'd understand. when everything about you was now broken, you just wanted him to remember you by who you really were. who you were underneath all the myths and legends of your godly actions. you just wanted him to know who you were.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

[moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon]

When The Goo Goo Dolls said “I’d give up forever to touch you,” “you’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be” and when Hozier said “the only heaven I’ll be sent to is when I’m alone with you” and when Taylor Swift said “I would fall from grace just to touch your face” and when Hozier said “if I could hold you for a minute, I’d go through it again,” “I would not change it each time, heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I” and when Hozier said “I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door” and when George Ezra said “is the grass of Eden overrated? No one else is such a beautiful dream to me” and when Big Thief said “no love is like this, no sacrifices” and when Jeff Buckley said “my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder,” “all my riches for her smile,” “all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter” and when Johnny Cash said “you can have it all, my empire of dirt” 

[decodedlvr]

Don’t think about you and Eddie in your mid 30s’, your little baby is sound asleep in her crib, you’re in the kitchen stirring the sauce for tonight’s pasta

hair in a messy bun, chipped nails, in a pair of Eddie’s sweats and a bleach stained covered shirt minding yourself

until Eddie comes up to hold you from behind, swaying you both to the melody of Iris, him singing in your ear with such passion and rasp—

“And I'd give up forever to touch you

'Cause I know that you feel me somehow

You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be—

And I don't want to go home right now

—And I don't want the world to see me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am”

You smile sadly, unknowingly your tears are drenching your face and neck, thinking of that memory

because he’s not there. he died years ago, but you still feel him. you still see him in those big, brown eyes of your little girl who’s staring at you from the kitchen table

“You ok mama?”

“Yeah baby, I’m alright” you nod quickly, sniffling, drying your tears with the collar of your shirt, plating your meals to sit at the table, “Was just thinking about—

“Daddy?”

You look at her fondly, rubbing the side of her face, “Yeah, I was thinkin about daddy. You know he loved this song”

“I know.”

You stare at his empty placemat internally voicing “I love you”, meanwhile Eddie’s right there, staring right back at you with that same wide beautiful smile

“I love you too sweetheart.”

Yeah, you’re crying aren’t you? I told you not to think about it.

[newvision]

your lover as your deity, their company as your heaven

Hozier, Take Me To Church // Lana Del Rey, Video Games // Hozier, Work Song // the Goo Goo Dolls, Iris // Hozier, Francesca

[fairyysoup]

and i'd give up forever to touch you cause i know that you feel me somehow you're the closest to heaven that i'll ever be and i don't want to miss you right now and all i can taste is this moment and all i can breathe is your light and sooner or later it's over i just don't want to miss you tonight AND I DON'T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE ME CAUSE I DON'T THINK THAT THEY'D UNDERSTAND WHEN EVERYTHING'S MADE TO BE BROKEN I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW WHO I AM

[vincent35169]

[90s-2000s-barbie]

The Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl (1998)

[best-overplayed-song]

[vvvinee]

"Now I'm banging on the door of an angel

The end of fear is where we begin

The moment we decided to let love in"

- The Goo Goo Dolls

[daenerys-targaryen]

/ relationship with depression

[sweetnnaivete]

what don't you understand about me not wanting the world to see me 'cause i don't think that they'd understand. like ...... when everything's made to be broken i just want you to know who i am !!!!

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

Iris (The Goo Goo Dolls)

And I'd give up forever to touch you/'Cause I know that you feel me somehow/You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be/And I don't want to go home right now/And I don't want the world to see me/'Cause I don't think that they'd understand/When everything's made to be broken/I just want you to know who I am

"It is a very bad thing that this song often plays in grocery stores and at the dentist's office, because it makes me cry. imagine walking around the world knowing that one of the songs that fucks you up could play in the goddamn dentist's office at any moment and there's nothing you can do about it. That in and of itself is something to be fucked up about. Also this song is gay. "And I'd give up forever to touch you /.../ you're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be" there's a gay interpretation in there. Why isn't the narrator going to heaven? Why does he have to give up forever to touch his partner? Gay. Gay. Gay. Gay."

Poll Runner: The song ever. You'll be screaming your lungs raw. The lyrics mean so much.

The Ocean (Against Me!)

And if I could have chosen/I would have been born a woman/My mother once told me/She would have named me Laura/I'd grow up/To be strong and beautiful like her/One day, I'd find an honest man/To make my husband

If I could have chosen where God would hide his heaven/I would wish for it to be in the salt and swell of the ocean/Carried by the currents to all continents' shores/Reaching into the depths where the sun’s light has never shone/If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman/There is an ocean in my soul where the waters do not curve

"Have you ever listened to a soul-rending song that has a metatextual happy ending?A cry of suffering and of resignation to happiness being a fantasy while you drown in a tumultuous ocean. But. A few years later, you realise you don't have to be resigned, that happiness can come. Happiness doesn't have to be a fantasy, happiness can just be reality. You can transition and find yourself, like Laura Jane Grace, the group's singer-songwriter did five years after that song's release. Whether you're trans or not, such a powerful song that becomes a diary note that you read now, not facing dread everyday, with kindness towards younger you : that's a beautiful message that shakes you."

"Ocean. The Ocean. The Ocean. It's. it's. it's such a thing it's so good and so filling it is EVERYTHING. also coming out song. but not actually. And Laura's voice is so beautiful,,, and there is an ocean in my soul where the waters do not curve."