As Hoobastank return to the scene with their first new music since 2018, Doug talks Rock Sound through ten lyrics that have defined the band’s journey. I’m obviously not the only person to ever experience that, and I don’t think that it’s evil. Really, there’s no way to ever know, and that frustration leaked into those lyrics.” “I’m not a perfect person”, ‘The Reason’ – ‘The Reason’ (2003)“These are the lyrics that have been recited back to me the most in the history of our band. They were never intended to be lyrics; they were just things I had written down after I’d broken up with a girl, or she had broken up with me.