Goo Goo Dolls: Iris Meaning
Iris Lyrics
'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 all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
’cause...
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anonymous Jan 13th 2008, 21:25 report
Well, this isn't as much an interpretation as it is a personal feeling, but I feel that this song is about a long distance relationship.
The first verse makes me feel this the strongest. To me, this song is about a man who really loves a woman, but because they live so far away, he would do anything to touch her, see her, kiss her, or spend time with her in any way.
The chorus makes me think that it's about the mans friends that don't understand how and why he feels the way he does, it seems hopeless. But all he wants is for her to understand why he feels the way he does, and for her to accept it.
The second verse I feel is the doubt that they could both have, about each others identities and feelings. Is it real? Is he/ she lying to me? What if he is? This seems to good to be true.
Again, this is more of a personal thing for me, but it's my interpretation of the song. -
anonymous Dec 15th 2007, 04:09 report
I don't know much about the song but I don't think the word "iris is meant to be a girls name. The word iris is actually a part of the eye so maybe its got something to do with a man seeing that a girl is so beautiful and he can't believe his with her.
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anonymous Nov 29th 2007, 11:29 report
All this stuff about it being about gay love is stupid, watch the music video. It has clips from the movie, including the part where Nicholas Cage begins to fall from the building, and it has a whole bunch of short clips from the movie... can it be anymore obvious who is right??? seriously, but I don't know why you guys are getting so anal about this, a song is like any good piece of literature, it is there to inspire, and whatever it means to you is what really matters, so all you gay lovers out there, if this is your song then good for you, and if this is a song about an amazing love that is so fragile and so precious that it means everything to you, and you would give anything for it, well than welcome to my world, and power to you as well.
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anonymous Nov 4th 2007, 08:57 report
Fair enough it was written for a film but I look at this song as thoughts people have for someone they feel they cannot have for fear of rejection or hurting someone, but secretly they still want them....
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anonymous Oct 31st 2007, 16:36 report
Has anyone noticed that none of the homophobes had usernames? Does the fact that they want to remain anonymous have anything to do with the fact that they don't want to look like hypocrites? Don't look at the fact that you can't see who wrote this either.
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anonymous Oct 27th 2007, 11:10 report
Yeah, this song was written for 'City Of Angels'. Because of its universal lyrics, for many people it has also come to represent the way they hide themselves from the world (or the people they love) for fear of not being good enough, while at the same time wanting to be acknowledged.
"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."
The line "When everything feels like the movies, yeah you bleed just to know you're alive" could be about the sense of unreality often accompanied by these feelings of self doubt.
Of course, everyone is free to interpret a song however they want, and if it gives meaning to them, then that's cool! -
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anonymous Aug 22nd 2007, 13:59 report
I honestly think it's about a stalker who's desperatly in love with this girl and if you see the video it clearly says that.
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anonymous Aug 15th 2007, 00:14 report
I never saw the movie, that this song was written for, but this is really what it means to me.
It's about someone having a secret love. As you see in the video for the song "iris", the guy is kinda spying on her. The secret love, is somone more higher then him, and he is so fascinated by her beauty and puts aside his time to watch her. He senses she may have feelings for a somone like him, thought she dosent know he exist. :
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
All he imagines is the moment he confesses his love to her tonight. To tell her all he does is watch her every move, and how he can't live without her. He knows if he tells her that its going to be over tonight, so he dosent want to miss her sight this one last time.
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
Cause sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight
He really wants to confess his love for her. But he imagines himself telling her the truth of spying on her. It shocks him knowing he can't really tell her the truth. Its like tears he knows he has, but won't come because he isn't truly sad, but mad at himself. He feels, what he is feeling is untrue, like the movies. and wonders if its even true.
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything seems like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know your alive
He dosent want want the world to know about this. Its because he thinks he isn't the most appealing person for his love. Though he deeply has feelings for her, he dosent want to break the boundries that is set for him. He dosent think the world would understand how much he secretly loved her from afar, to confess to her.It would be strange. He knows since everything he was restricted from is already broken he wants her to finally know who he really is. And the love she could be looking for is him.
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
i love you jacob. -
anonymous Aug 2nd 2007, 21:24 report
"Iris" was written specifically for the movie, "City of Angels". It supposed to be told from Nicholas Cage's character's POV, an angel who falls in love with a mortal woman, Meg Ryan.
"...And I’d give up forever to touch you"
He is stating how he would be willing to give up his angelic existence if he could just once know what it feels like to touch her. In the movie, he's intangible.
"...’cause I know that you feel me somehow"
Even though humans aren't supposed to feel/know an angel's presence, he feels somehow she can feels/knows his.
"...You’re the closest to heaven that i’ll
Ever be"
Ironic that he's an angel who inhabits heaven, but he only feels fully complete and heavenly when he's near her.
"...And I don’t want to go home right now"
He doesn't want to go back to heaven, he only wishes to be near her.
"...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"
He doesn't care about facing the rest of the world, as he knows how destructible and callous it is. He only needs her to be able to understand his love for her.
"...And you can’t fight the tears that ain’t Coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies"
These are all characteristics of human actions, things that he's not allowed to experience but she can.
"...Yeah you bleed just to know you’re alive"
As an angel, blood did not flow through his immortal body. When he finally "dies" to become human, the first thing he sees and feels is blood from his wounds, proving that he was in fact now human. -
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anonymous May 26th 2007, 22:14 report
Well said Geo. I totally agree, there is always going ti be a story but songs can mean whatever you want them to mean.
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anonymous May 26th 2007, 07:33 report
I understand every part of the song etc except "or the moment of truth in your lies" in the story of the song/movie what does this line mean? Post back according to the movie point of view.
help with my query please :) -
anonymous May 26th 2007, 07:20 report
If you want the very plain and simple straight out explanation, yes the song is based on the movie City Of Angels and all of the above explanations are right .eg. after falling from the building he sees that he is in fact human "yeah you bleed just to know your alive" and "I'd give up forever to touch you, cause I know that you feel me somehow" is Johnny's interpretation of how the character is an angel and cannot physically touch the woman he loves for she is mortal, so he would give up being able to "live" forever as an angel for a seamlessly short period of life as a human.
After much research into the subject, I have discovered that the name Iris does in fact simply come from skimming through a newspaper and seeing a local artists name and using that.
However, like any song, all songs have special meanings to each individual that hears it. There are so many "interpretations" of a song, there is the very "on the surface" type explanations (the movie) and then there are the more in-depth meanings that vary in the mind and heart of the listener. Is it not true that there are songs that remind you of a certain memories? are there not songs that their meanings have nothing to do with the feeling you get from them?
It is a very great thing to explore what a song means to you.
Since when is song just about what the actual word for word is saying? Why can't it be more what the song means to YOU?
...keep on posting...
xx Geo! (believe in Jerry) -
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anonymous May 11th 2007, 07:15 report
I've commented here before but geez, like 9 years down the road and this song, it's just so scary when I sometimes think about it. I mean seriously I want that Psychiatrist's number if Johnny can write art like that.
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anonymous Apr 29th 2007, 17:50 report
This song is the best love song ever and I think if you watch cit of angels the song will explain itself however I think it does have a deeper meaning because it's about how you first feel when you find the person you know your supposed to be with. I think the word Iris refers to a part of the eye and it symbolises that maybe its that part of your eyes that sees the good stuff. In the movie she only sees him when he wants to be seen.
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anonymous Apr 28th 2007, 20:25 report
When I heard the song, I thought it was beautiful, but I didn't really get it..but when I saw the music video, I realized it was about a guy who admires a girl from afar and wishes they could be together <3 the gay theory is pretty interesting though.
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anonymous Apr 8th 2007, 05:54 report
I am very pissed... K the fact is that this song is still played on radio stations and everyone knows it and crap, yet even when it's been played again and again, like none of the channels over here have even tried to play City of Angels, I mean I feel like I'm going insane because it's like the movie never existed or something and I know that movie has some of the answers I need... Just a matter of finding it!
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