Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers

It's Not Enough

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You can give me this
You can give me that
You can give me this
You can give me that
It's not enough

Money's so green
So casually seen
It don't bother me
It's not enough
It's not enough

Every town I go in
Every street I walk down
I can get anything I want
I just lay my cards down

I can count on diamonds
Rubys as well
Oh big deal baby
I still feel like hell
It's not enough
It's not enough
Oh you can take it

Every town I go in
Every street I walk down
I can get anything I want
I just lay my cards down

I can count on diamonds
Rubys as well
Oh big deal baby
I still feel like hell
It's not enough
It's not enough
It's not enough

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by DunkingGal

14y ago

Perhaps it's about someone he really cared for who had a lot of money and could afford great, fancy things, but in the end it wasn't enough because it was loveless. Or maybe it is meant to be through the eyes of one of these rich Wall Street sophisticate types in New York who just throw all the cash around with dazzle, but in the end it's not enough. The human condition, or the condition of being an "American". By not having enough he might mean the opposite, always wanting more. Still, he croons like it's a song about being brokenhearted, and so I wonder if it is both.

Love the song and the lyrics. The way he sings, "i still feel like hell, it's not enough" makes me cringe. It shakes my soul for sure.

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