Aimee Mann

Nothing Is Good Enough

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Nothing Is Good Enough Lyrics

	


Once upon a time is how it always goes
but I'll make it brief
what was started out with such excitement 
now I'd gladly end end with relief
in what now has become a familiar motif:


That nothing is good enough
for people like you
who have to have someone take the fall
and something to sabotage--
determined to lose it all


Critics at their worst could never criticize
the way that you do
no, there's no one else, I find,
to undermine or dash a hope
quite like you
and you do it so casually, too


Cause nothing is good enough
for people like you
who have to have someone take the fall
and something to sabotage--
determined to lose it all


Ladies and gentlemen--
here's exhibit A
didn't I try again?
And did the effort pay?
Wouldn't a smarter man
simply walk away?


It doesn't really help that you can never say 
what you're looking for
but you'll know it when you hear it,
know it when you see it walk through the door
So you say--
so you've said many times before


But nothing is good enough
for people like you
who have to have someone take the fall
and something to sabotage--
determined to lose it all

	

Submitted by

ice On Jul 04, 2001

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by user1951

20y ago

I am a teacher. This is the song of the OFSTED inspector! Nothing is good enough for those m***s. In particular "It doesn't really help that you can never say what you're looking for." They can't teach themselves but they can always find fault. This song should be branded on their foreheads.

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by squeakyfingers

19y ago

its a big old "fuck you" to her former record label, in lyrical form.

"It doesn't really help that you can never say what you're looking for but you'll know it when you hear it, know it when you see it walk through the door So you say-- so you've said many times before."

aka them never being happy with the work that she's creating...they don't know what they want, but they aren't hearing it from her...pretty self explanatory, actually.

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by missme

14y ago

Can see the record label thing, definitely. It also sounds to me to be about someone that refuses to commit though.

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