Unsatisfied

I simply adore this song. This is the worst thing that can happen to anybody. Get everything you've ever wanted and dreamed of, achieve all your goals and find out that you're still not satisfied with your life. That this is not what you wanted...

Excellent song. Westerberg's voice has an air of honest fragility and seething raw anger. The melody and music is memorable, the lyrics are straightforward but work incredibly well, and a lesser songwriter/singer/band might have not pulled this masterpiece off.

Brilliant song by a brilliant band.

i love this song, i love the replacements

What a Great Song! Best song on that classic album. It's not so much teen angst, it's more like adult like in your 20's angst. It's not just about being unsatisifed with a relationship it's about being unsatisfied with your life in general.

great song .... great song .... great song the lyrics can fit for sexual or other meanings, and this helps give this song a nice broad accessibility. whatever disappointment you yourself are goin thru at present, this song speaks for you ! but like all of westerberg's songs, this is all about paul. he's answering the people (everybody he knows pretty much, but most especially all of the folks in the music business) who are constantly criticizing him and telling him that he has a fear of success and that he will INTENTIONALLY feck up every time he gets a chance to close the deal to become the ACKNOWLEDGED voice of his generation. i always think he's singing to jill mclean from twin-tone (the band is sitting on jill's roof outside of her second-story window facing lyndale avenue in Dan Corrigan's photo that was used as the cover of "Let It Be). He's saying, "no i ain't satisfied being a big-fish in this little mpls. pond. i want more ! i wanna be bigger than the beatles and stones combined !!" unfortunately jill and everybody else was right ... they get chance to show there stuff to everyone on SNL, what do the do?, they get so fecking drunk people can't even tell what species they are ...
as he sings on "we're coming out" ... SNL became the same-old, same-old "one more chance to get it all wrong ... one more chance thrown away ... one more time to do it all wrong" "liberty is a lie" is a reference to all of the suggestions/demands from all of the a&r folks "everything you dreamed of" refers to paul's desire to be bigger than he was then, sadly he didn't become as big as he could have.

I think this song is pretty self explanatory. Turning 26 in 4 days and life just isn't what I thought it'd be. I'm so unsatisfied, even though I have a lot of things to be grateful for and I've grown a lot in the last 10, years I still have a yearning and an overall sense of malaise about life.

Pure teenage angst. Our generation has wealth, convenience, assortment of gadgets, plenty of career opportunities but are you really content? Something is missing from our lives. I think that's what this song is about and it applies to our generation probably more so than the one Westerberg wrote it about.

but it's just...the greatest song...

I don't think that it's "teen" angst at all. The song seems much broader than that. It's more angry disillusionment that angst.

Which ever way you read it, the song is one of the best (of any artist)!

This song is much more relatable as a twenty-something than it was as a teenager. To me, this is the ultimate white-boy blues.