Goo Goo Dolls - Slide - A Song About abortion

The group has sold nearly nine million albums in the U.S. alone. While not a Goo Goo Dolls fan this song reached number one in 1998 and 1999. I never closely listened to the lyrics, however. I thought the song was a love ballad about two young people falling love and wanting to get married, mainly because of the words "I wanna wake up where you are" and "Do you wanna get married?".

The key to the song lies in the second verse.

Don't you love the life you killed?
The priest is on the phone
Your father hit the wall
Your ma disowned you

Don't supposed I'll ever know
What it means to be a man
It's somethin' I can't change
I'll live around it

The song is about abortion.

The teenage girl is Catholic. The question is, should they get married, or just abort the baby and run away and be together?

The young man says,

I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
So why don't you slide

In other words, I won't question your decision to take the life of our child. I will let it slide, and you should just let it slide too. We will just learn to cope and live around the guilt of the decision.

The lie is that we can truly let things slide. We can't. Our decisions live with us and haunt us. Guilt is not removed by trying to wish it away and be happy.

The truth is that guilt can be removed. It can washed away by the grace and mercy of Christ rather than letting things slide.
The Dawn Treader