Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls?!
Question:
Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls?
can anyone tell me what Iris by the goo goo dolls means? or what you decipher it to be? thanks.
Answers: The song was written for the movie City of Angels by Johnny Rzeznik after a few months of writers block and giving up the band and writting and everything in only one hour! It was totally amazing. The song follows along with the movie perfectly, the man is an angel and even though he is immortal and lives in a perfect world, he falls in love with a mortal and the only downside is that he can't feel her, he doesn't have the sense of touch. He gives his immortality to be with the woman. He falls from Heaven and they live happily ever after, until one day later she gets run over by a truck and dies. But he beleives it was worth it to become mortal because one moment with her was all he needed. It's a beautiful song, it demonstrates true love even though the world doesn't always understand it. The Goo Goo Dolls are my favorite band ever and I'm glad that you are interested in their music, it all means so much! Rzeznik found the word and definition of "Iris" in a magazine and found it fitting to be the song's title because of similarities in its lyrical theme. Prior to this, some fans of the song have speculated that the title refers to the Greek messenger of the gods, Iris. This is thought supposedly because some angels are considered messengers and this song was written for the movie City of Angels (in which the main character is an angel). Aww, pshh.....Every single time I hear it I think of Buffy and Angel from BtVS, because a lot of people used the song in fanvids............*sings along*