What is Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls about?

Answer 1

It's about distance,aboutt obstacles, and how those are nothing compare to love,'cause somehow they feel each other, drowning themselves in passion and sincerity, bleeding in the inside, 'cause what they fell just make them to be alive, but's something nobody would understand, how they can break the rules, how we can break tyhe whole world with a feeling, two hearts beating at the same time, at the same rythm......

Answer 2

The song title was inspired after a country singer named Iris DeMent.