Black Balloon by Goo Goo Dolls Cover – Prayer

This song has a special meaning to me. I don’t know if my interpretation is correct, but that’s the great thing about great songs. They can mean different things within the same theme to different people because of a unique personal experience. It’s what I felt when I listened to it intently, trying to gauge it’s meaning: The song’s lyrics are clearly about drug addiction, in particular, the heroin addiction of Robby’s girlfriend/wife, but I believe the song has a more general import. It is about the mutual interconnectedness between two people, how each affects the other, even in some of the most darkest circumstances, changing both for the better. Only he could help her – “a thousand other boys could never reach you. How could I have been one?” The black balloon and the spoon are heroin references. He led her out of her addiction to it. At the same time, she was an answer to his prayer, as he ‘almost fell into the (same) hole’ in her life (heroin addiction), as her experience showed to him the negative impact it had on her life. The womb is a source of comfort, as well as source of nourishment – the heroin serves as that. But, it’s all a lie. People do drugs to escape from a reality that is harsh, where lies are told and love doesn’t seem to exist – “you know the lies they always told you, and the love you never knew.” But, life is more than the negativity that seems to surround people’s lives – “what’s the things they never showed you?” The longer she exists in this …
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