Lyrics

Hey your glass is empty
It’s a hell of a long way home
Why don’t you let me take you
It’s no good to go alone
I never would have opened up
But you seemed so real to me
And after all the bullshit
I’ve heard It’s refreshing not to see
That I don’t have to pretend
She doesn’t expect it from me

So don’t tell me I haven’t been good to you
Don’t tell me I have never been there for you
And just tell me why
Nothing is good enough

Hey little girl would you like some candy
Your momma said that it’s OK
The door is open come on outside
No I can’t come out today
It’s not the wind that cracked your shoulder
And threw you to the ground
Who’s there that makes you so afraid
You’re shaken to the bone
And no I don’t understand
You deserve so much more than this

So don’t tell me why
He’s never been good to you
Don’t tell me why
He’s never been there for you
Don’t you know that why
Is simply not good enough
So just let me try
And I will be good to you

Just let me try
And I will be there for you
I’ll show you why
You’re so much more than good enough

 

Appears on

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993)
The Freedom Sessions (1994)
Mirrorball (1999)
Mirrorball: The Complete Concert (2006)
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: Legacy Edition (2008)
Closer: The Best Of Sarah McLachlan (2008)
The Essential Sarah McLachlan (2013)

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Live DVD (1994)
Video Collection 1989-1994 (1995)
Mirrorball DVD (1999)
Video Collection 1989-1998 (2000)
VH1 Storytellers (2004)

Good Enough (single)
Murmurs 1

 

Versions

Album Version
from “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy”
Track length: 5:03

In-Studio Version
from “The Freedom Sessions”
Track length: 3:21

Live: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Live
from “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Live DVD”
Track length: ???

Live: Mirrorball
from “Mirrorball”
Track length: 5:10

Live: Mirrorball The Complete Concert
from “Mirrorball: The Complete Concert”
Track length: 6:18

Live: Acoustic
from “Murmurs 1″
Track length: ???

Live: unknown venue
from “Good Enough” (Single)
Track length: 5:00

Live exclusive: Live Xll
from “Live Xll: One Life”
Track length: ???

Live exclusive: Live on the Mountain
from “Live on the Mountain Vol 2”
Track length: ???

Single Version
from “Good Enough” (Single)
Track length: 4:15

Album Remix
from “Good Enough” (Single)
Track length: 4:30

Album Version Edit
from “Good Enough” (Single CAN)
Track length: ???

 

Compilations

Credits

Vocals, Piano: Sarah McLachlan
Percussion Machine: Pierre Marchand
Guitar, Guitorgan: Bill Dillon
Bass: Brain Minato
Drums: Ash Sood

 

Collaborations

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Trivia/Notes

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Sarah says

“Well, this next song is sort of a sisterhood song…It’s all about the beautiful love and friendship between women…A beautiful thing… something to be cherished…and held onto… ”
– At the Kiss 108 benefit concert in boston in 1998

“Good Enough is one of those songs that came out in almost a day, and I don’t really know where it came from. I know now, but when it happened, it just sort of came out. It was a song about my mother, in one sense. It was also inspired by another singer/songwriter in Canada called Jane Siberry. She is going around, doing these “this is not a concert” concert kind of thing, where she shows her videos and she does spoken story and stuff. One of her stories was aimed at her mother and their relationship. I don’t know quite what grasp I had on it, except that it affected me tremendously, of the relationship that she had with her mother and the women of my mother’s and her mother’s generation who were so completely out of touch with their bodies and who did not really have any friends to talk to about anything. I have amazing female friends and this is another thing about where the song came from. I can say anything to them and I trust them to be able to say these things to and to talk about it and work things out. My mother’s generation is of, “Oh, let’s just not talk about it. ” So I wrote that song for her, on the perspective of, “I’m not just the daughter anymore. I want to be your friend now.”
– World Cafe Radio interview in March 1994

“But this song is for my mother… and all the women who have sent out their voices… without receiving an answer.”
– Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Live DVD (Note that the video shows Sarah speaking this in French and so the above is a translation of Sarah’s remarks.)

 

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