Goo Goo Dolls: Black Balloon Meaning

Song Released: 1999

Black Balloon Lyrics

Baby's black balloon makes her fly
I almost fell into that hole in your life
And you're not thinking about tomorrow
'Cause you were the same as me
But on your knees

A thousand other boys could never reach you
How could I have been the...

1. anonymous

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   Apr 22nd 2008 !⃝

   I saw an interview on Johnny (lead singer) and he said his little sister was a Muel, one of those people who swallowed Black Balloons to smuggle cocaine across the border, and the balloon popped in her system and she died from the overdose.

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2. anonymous

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   Mar 24th 2008 !⃝

   I'm not sure about the ice from the spoon, but the song is about herion addiction...the black balloon thing...Heroin is sold in black balloons.
3. anonymous

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   Feb 20th 2008 !⃝

   Ice from the spoon is reffering to ice- Ice is the translucent crystal, smokable form of methamphetamine.
   
   You're welcome.

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4. annonymous

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   Oct 22nd 2007 !⃝

   FACT: the song is written about robbie's wife and it refers to her heroin addiction but she is not dead. she has been clean now for a few years.
5. anonymous

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   Aug 22nd 2007 !⃝

   I used to think it was about abortion because I took a line from the song literally but now looking back its clearly the drug addiction interpretation. But in my honest opinion as much as I respect the instrumental quality of the song, the lyrics suck...I think Johnny boy was trying to be too literary and it went way over his head. I see where he's going generally but I think it could have been done much better-like parts of each theory doesn't fit. Even though he came out and said exactly what it meant I'm just like "yeah I don't see where you're coming from."

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6. anonymous

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   Jul 13th 2007 !⃝

   Damn some of you are dumb.
   
   This is about the bass player for goo goo dolls wife overdosing on Heroin.
   
   and idiot, black balloons are a heroin ref. not coke.
7. anonymous

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   Apr 18th 2007 !⃝

   Okay well, whoever said this: IT WAS ON BEHIND THE MUSIC AND THE LEAD SINGER OF GOO GOO DOLLS WHO WROTE IT!WAS INTERVIEWED AND TOLD THE MEANING OF THE SING, it's not abortion that is the song called"slide" written by them and it's NOT cocaine
   suck it up stupids> please by all means tell us what it means smart fucker because we have run out of any other ideas.

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8. anonymous

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   Jan 14th 2007 !⃝

   This song was written for Robby's (bassist/singer) wife who had passed from heroin, black balloons are used to cut off circulation to inject the heroin, and Robby's wife died from the heroin, Robby and Johnny both wrote this song together and Johnny himself said it was about heroin.
9. anonymous

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   Dec 31st 2006 !⃝

   who ever doesn't think this song is about heroin addiction is whack.
   IT WAS ON BEHIND THE MUSIC AND THE LEAD SINGER OF GOO GOO DOLLS WHO WROTE IT!!!WAS INTERVIEWED AND TOLD THE MEANING OF THE SING, it's not abortion that is the song called"slide" written by them and it's NOT cocaine
   suck it up stupids
10. anonymous

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    Dec 14th 2006 !⃝

    The song isn't about drugs! It's about a woman having an abortion. Just look at the line "And scatter like ice from the spoon that was your womb." He's talking about how she said no to so many other guys, but let him in and then she got pregnant, got an abortion and died because of it.

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11. anonymous

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    Nov 20th 2006 !⃝

    ice is meth, not heroin.
12. anonymous

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    Oct 9th 2006 !⃝

    John Rzeznik's friend struggled with drugs and this song is about his friend. Or so I've heard.

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13. anonymous

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    Apr 22nd 2006 !⃝

    Well actually the Black Balloon thing in Heroin is to cut off the blood for their injection. It's about someone he knew who died from drugs. And he kept trying to hold on to this person as a reason to live even as she was destroying herself.
    
    "And I'll become, what you became to me." In the end however he realizes that motive to live is himself.
    
    And some lyrics are missing.
14. anonymous

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    Mar 14th 2006 !⃝

    Read the song again, it is about heroin.
15. anonymous

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    Feb 13th 2006 !⃝

    Whoever wrote the other interpretation about this song is an idiot.....Baby's Black Balloon is cocaine. In bigger cities some drug addicts dress up as clowns selling black balloons. The drug addicts know which ones are drug dealers and the price. It talks about how a girl he loved fell into the black hole (cocaine) "coming down the world turns over" or nothing is good when unless she's yayed up....but yes, this girl does die of an overdose.

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