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== General information ==
== General Information ==
''Written by: [[A. Lee]]''


Written by: ''[[A. Lee]]''
'''''Good Enough''''' is the thirteenth track and the fourth and final single from [[Evanescence]]'s second studio album, ''[[The Open Door]]''.


'''The Open Door:''' Track 13
The song is described as "a string-and-choir-infused closer distinguished as the band's first truly (almost) contented song" by [[Evanescence.com]].<ref name=evcomdesc /> It is decidedly upbeat and showcases an Amy Lee that is letting someone in and who sounds happily in love. She thinks it is the bravest track on the album.<ref name=faceherself /> She called it "her happy song."<ref name=happy />


Described as "a string-and-choir-infused closer distinguished as the band's first truly (almost) contented song" by [http://evanescence.com Evanescence.com], the song is reminiscent of the piano ballad [[Give Unto Me]] in it's purest form.
Amy's various descriptions of the song:  


It is decidedly upbeat and showcases an Amy Lee that is letting someone in and who sounds happily in love. She thinks it is the bravest track on the album. “It’s totally scary to be so vulnerable when I know however many metalheads are going to diss it because it’s not the exact same thing [as the other songs],” Lee says. “And it doesn’t end with, ‘And then he died’ or ‘I pushed him off a cliff’ or ‘He’s a ghost really.’ It’s so cool to me and weird to me. I’ve never written a happy song, ever."
{{quote|It's totally scary to be so vulnerable when I know however many metalheads are going to diss it because it's not the exact same thing [as the other songs]. And it doesn't end with, 'And then he died' or 'I pushed him off a cliff' or 'He’s a ghost really.' It's so cool to me and weird to me. I've never written a happy song, ever.<ref name=metaledge />}}


Amy's description of the song: <small>[http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1540914/story.jhtml VH1.com]</small>
{{quote|I had gone through a lot of difficult things during the writing of the whole album, and by the end of it, I had stepped away from those bad situations. That's really hard. You have to be really brave and strong about it. After doing that, I felt so amazing. For the first time I felt like I could write a song based on how good I felt. I have never done that before ever.<ref name=vh1 />}}


<blockquote>"I had gone through a lot of difficult things during the writing of the whole album, and by the end of it, I had stepped away from those bad situations. That's really hard. You have to be really brave and strong about it. After doing that, I felt so amazing. For the first time I felt like I could write a song based on how good I felt. I have never done that before ever." </blockquote>
{{quote|I think Good Enough is the most inspirational, good feeling, non-Goth song you'll ever hear, but there are people who can't get past their initial perception of our music.<ref name=courier />}}


The song was inspired by Josh, the (apparently) current boyfriend of Amy (who was also the inspiration behind Bring Me to Life).
{{quote|I think "Good Enough" is the best representation of the new me and it was the last song written for the album, written at the very, very end of the writing process. Actually, we were already in the studio recording and we thought we had all the songs and then that song came out of me. I guess by then, I'd gotten so much out of my system, that I needed to sing, that I needed to write about. I actually had made real changes in my life to separate myself from the negative things that were holding me down. After all the fighting and all the struggle and all the stuff, it was like this calm after the storm and I felt really, really good, better than I felt since maybe my childhood.  


The intro to this song came from a piece that Amy had written for Narnia, but was scrapped. We may never hear what originally followed this beautiful and elaborate string/piano arrangement.
"Good Enough" actually came out of feeling good, which is a big first for me because I've always felt like I have to be going through something, struggling with something, to write. Passionate, tragic things inspire my music, but I've realized that I don't have to be sad to write a good song because "Good Enough" I think is a wonderful song. It makes me happy to hear it and it's really funny because for one thing, there are no guitars on it, but for another thing, it's sweet and it's admittedly Terry and John's favorite song on the album. I'm glad I did that.<ref name=multimedia />}}
 
{{quote|"Not only am I a woman, but I'm also very young, and the one thing I'm constantly having to prove is that I'm an artist and not just a singer with some genius behind me," Lee says. "I'm really good at what I do. And I'm the leader of this band. There's a reason I put the song Good Enough at the end of the record. It's the theme of the album and the theme of this life."<ref name=smh />}}
 
{{quote|‘Good Enough’ does find me at peace, and I’m kind of scared of it. It’s weird, it was the bravest song to write and to bring to the table when we were recording the album. It’s just really real, and it was saying what I felt, that for once I wasn’t miserable, or stuck or trapped or sad or grieving. It was happy and well I wrote a happy song. I thought the guys (in the band) were probably going to hate it, and they loved it. It’s cool that ‘Good Enough’ is the last song on the album, because it’s all the things that I went through, and it’s the point that I got to.<ref name=songwriter />}}
 
Amy pointed out that ''Good Enough'' was put at the end of the album to symbolize a new beginning in her life:
 
{{quote|That song -- the last one I wrote for the record -- is definitely the most representative of me now, the way that I feel. If we're talking about the 'new me,' that's it and why it's at the end of the record. You have to go through those things and make the changes you have to make and be there and go, 'Okay, I did it.' It doesn't come that easy.<ref name=washingtonpost />}}
 
The song was inspired by [[Josh Hartzler]], Amy's then boyfriend and current husband (also the inspiration behind ''[[Bring Me to Life]]'').<ref name=blender /><ref name=deseret /> She wrote it two weeks after running into him at a party, then she played it for him and felt more nervous than playing in front of an audience.<ref name=PQaol /> The music video was recorded June 11-14, 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.
 
The song's instrumental intro was written for the soundtrack of the movie ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe]]'', but was not included.<ref name=evboardenough /> Amy claimed she was paid to write the song.<ref name=metalhammer2006 /><ref name=metalshock2006 /> However, the producers of ''Narnia'' rebutted her claim, stating that no Evanescence music had been planned for inclusion in the soundtrack.<ref name=mtv2004 /> The intro was included into the song on ''The Open Door''.<ref name=evboardenough />
 
The song was added to the setlist of [[The Open Door Tour]] (2006-07).<ref name=hammerstein /><ref name=rayner /><ref name=dunkin /><ref name=mikel /> It was later played again at the band's Secret Show in NYC on November 4, 2009,<ref name=stonesecret /><ref name=blabbersecret /> and at their show in Nashville on August 17, 2011.<ref name=blabbernashv /> It was also played acoustically at the ''[[Legends & Lyrics]]'' show in February 2009.<ref name=upvenue2009 />
 
On the ''[[Synthesis]]'' listening party in New York on October 3, 2017, Amy made an acoustic performance of ''Good Enough'', in celebration of ''The Open Door''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s eleventh anniversary. Watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5f_KpdeYC0 here].
 
== Versions ==
'''Studio versions:'''
 
'''Good Enough'''
*''Recording date:'' September 2005 - March 2006
*''Status:'' Released
*''Released on:
:''[[The Open Door]]'' (track #13) - The fourth single off the album
:German "Good Enough" radio single
*''Length:'' 5:31
 
'''Good Enough [Radio edit]'''
*''Recording date:'' September 2005 - March 2006
*''Status:'' Released
*''Released on:'' Some of the [[Good Enough Single#Industry Promotional Releases|"Good Enough" radio singles]]
*''Length:'' 4:35
*This version doesn't have the one-minute-long intro.
 
'''Good Enough [US radio edit]'''
*''Recording date:'' September 2005 - March 2006
*''Status:'' Released
*''Released on:'' [[Good Enough Single#US Radio Single 2|"Good Enough" US radio single]]
*''Length:'' 3:54
*This version starts with Amy singing, and doesn't have the lines "so take care what you ask of me, cause I can't say no" at the end.
 
 
'''Live versions:'''
 
'''Good Enough [2006-2007 live]'''
*''Performing period:'' October 5, 2006 - December 8, 2007
*''Example:'' KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas (December 10, 2006)
 
'''Good Enough [2009 live]'''
*''Performing dates:'' November 4 and November 8, 2009
*''Performed at:'' [[New York Secret Show 2009|New York City Secret Show]] (November 4) and [[Maquinaria Festival 2009|Maquinaria Festival, São Paulo, Brazil]] (November 8)
 
'''Good Enough [2011 live]'''
*''Performing dates:'' August 17 and November 4, 2011
*''Performed at:'' War Memorial Auditorium, Nashville (August 17) and HMV Hammersmith Apollo, London (November 4)
 
'''Good Enough [2012 live]'''
*''Performing date:'' June 20, 2012
*''Performed at:'' Olympic Fencing Center, Athens, Greece
 
'''Good Enough [Acoustic 2006]'''
*''Performing period:'' August - September 2006
*''Example:'' AOL Music Sessions (August 3)
*''Length:'' 4:34
*Performed by [[Amy Lee]] (piano, vocals) and [[David Eggar]] (cello)
 
'''Good Enough [Shorter acoustic version]'''
*''Performing period:'' October 2007
*''Example:'' ABC's ''The View''
*''Length:'' 3:45
*Performed by [[Amy Lee]] (piano, vocals) and a solo cello. The space between the two verses is much shorter and the song ends with Amy's vocal break that would normally come before the line "so take care what you ask of me..."
 
'''Good Enough [''Legends & Lyrics'' acoustic]'''
*''Performing date:'' February 23, 2009
*''Performed at:'' Legends & Lyrics, Nashville, Tennessee
*''Status:'' Unreleased
*''Length:'' Unknown
 
'''Good Enough [Wellspring House acoustic]'''
*''Performing date:'' November 7, 2013
*''Performed at:'' Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Massachusetts
*''Status:'' Unreleased
 
'''Good Enough [Bluegrass Underground acoustic]'''
*''Performing date:'' March 8, 2014
*''Performed at:'' Bluegrass Underground, McMinnville, Tennessee
*''Status:'' Unreleased
 
'''Good Enough [Synthesis Live]'''
*''Performing period:'' October 14, 2017 - April 9, 2018
*''Status:'' Released
*''Recording date:'' November 3, 2017
*''Released on:'' ''[[Synthesis Live]]'' (track #18)
*''Length:'' 5:36


== Lyrics ==
== Lyrics ==
=== Studio, live and acoustic versions ===
Under your spell again<BR>
Under your spell again<BR>
I can't say no to you<BR>
I can't say no to you<BR>
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I can't say no to you<BR>
I can't say no to you<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Shouldn't let you torture me so sweetly<BR>
Shouldn't have let you torture me so sweetly<BR>
Now I can't let go of this dream<BR>
Now I can't let go of this dream<BR>
I can't breathe but I feel<BR>
I can't breathe but I feel<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Good enough<BR>
I feel good enough for you<BR>
<BR>
Drink up sweet decadence<BR>
I can't say no to you<BR>
And I've completely lost myself<BR>
and I don't mind<BR>
I can't say no to you<BR>
<BR>
Shouldn't have let you<BR>
conquer me completely<BR>
Now I can't let go of this dream<BR>
Can't believe that I feel<BR>
Good enough<BR>
<BR>
I feel good enough<BR>
It's been such a long time coming,<BR>
but I feel good<BR>
<BR>
And I'm still waiting for the rain to fall<BR>
Pour real life down on me<BR>
Cause I can't hold on to anything this<BR>
Good enough<BR>
Am I good enough<BR>
for you to love me too?<BR>
<BR>
So take care what you ask of me<BR>
Cause I can't say no<BR>
=== US radio edit and shorter acoustic version ===
Under your spell again<BR>
I can't say no to you<BR>
Crave my heart and it's bleeding in your hand<BR>
I can't say no to you<BR>
<BR>
Shouldn't have let you torture me so sweetly<BR>
Now I can't let go of this dream<BR>
I can't breathe but I feel<BR>
Good enough<BR>
Good enough<BR>
I feel good enough for you<BR>
I feel good enough for you<BR>
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I can't say no to you<BR>
I can't say no to you<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Shouldn't let you conquer me completely<BR>
Shouldn't have let you conquer me completely<BR>
Now I can't let go of this dream<BR>
Now I can't let go of this dream<BR>
Can't believe that I feel<BR>
Can't believe that I feel<BR>
<BR>
Good enough<BR>
Good enough<BR>
I feel good enough<BR>
I feel good enough<BR>
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'Cause I can't hold on to anything this<BR>
'Cause I can't hold on to anything this<BR>
Good enough<BR>
Good enough<BR>
Am I good enough<BR>
Am I good enough for you to love me too?<BR>
For you to love me too?<BR>
 
<BR>
== Video ==
So take care what you ask of me<BR>
[[Image: Normal G E HQ 30.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Amy Lee playing the piano, surrounded by fire, in the video for "Good Enough"]]
'Cause I can't say no<BR>
The video for "Good Enough" was recorded between July 11 and July 14, 2007 on Vaci utca (Vaci street) in Budapest, Hungary. Vaci utca is the most famous street in central Budapest. It was directed by [[Mark Webb]] and Rich Lee, and produced by DNA.<ref name=static />
 
On July 30, 2007, an unfinished version of the video was leaked on the Internet. That version had the unedited special effects replaced by descriptions on the screen.
 
The official version of the video debuted during MTV's TRL on September 10, with Amy Lee presenting the video, as it was announced at Evanescence.com.<ref name=evcomannounce />
 
A day before its official debut, the final version of the video in a wider ratio was leaked on YouTube.
 
The video can be watched on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw2Ic_2XdVQ YouTube.com].
 
=== On the book ===
[[Image:Book GE.png|right|thumb|200px|The book in the video]]
During the video, Amy writes on a book:
 
''Can't let go of this dream''<br>
''I can't breathe but I feel''<br>
''Good enough''<br>
''For you to love me too''<br>
''I Shouldn't have let you''
 
=== Behind the scenes ===
The Behind the Scenes for the "Good Enough" video is available to watch on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96MGHOsVTLo YouTube].
 
== Commercial release ==
{{Main|Good Enough Single}}
The "Good Enough" single was supposed to be commercially released in Germany on November 16, 2007. The single was later delayed, with a release date of December 14th.<ref name=amazonbasic /><ref name=amazonmaxi /> The single was eventually canceled, even though SonyBMG promoted the single on their website.<ref name=sonybmgsingle />


== Guitar Tabs & Sheet Music ==
Tracks released with the radio singles include:
#"Good Enough" [Radio edit]
#"Good Enough" [Album version]
#"Good Enough" [Video]


== Guitar tabs & sheet music ==
*[http://evanescencereference.info/music/sheet/Good%20Enough.pdf Piano sheet music - transcribed by Kelly Thomas]
*[http://evanescencereference.info/music/sheet/Good%20Enough.pdf Piano sheet music - transcribed by Kelly Thomas]


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Away from Me
Before the Dawn
Better Without You
Bleed
Blind Belief
Breathe No More
Bring Me to Life
Broken Pieces Shine
Call Me When You're Sober
Catherine
Cloud Nine
Demise
Disappear
End of the Dream
Erase This
Eternal
Even in Death
Everybody's Fool
Exodus
Far From Heaven
Farther Away
Feeding the Dark
Field of Innocence
Forever You
Forgive Me
Give Unto Me
Going Under
Good Enough
Haunted
Hello
Hi-Lo
If You Don't Mind
Imaginary
Imperfection
Instrumental 1
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Instrumental 3
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Lacrymosa
Lies
Like You
Listen to the Rain
Lithium
Lose Control
Lost in Paradise
Made of Stone
Me & You
Missing
My Heart Is Broken
My Immortal
My Last Breath
Never Go Back
New Way to Bleed
Oceans
October
Origin
Overture
Part of Me
Perfect Dream
Say You Will
Secret Door
Sick
Snow White Queen
So Close
Solitude
Spanish
Surrender
Sweet Sacrifice
Swimming Home
Take Cover
Taking Over Me
The Chain*
The Change
The End
The Game is Over
The In-Between
The Last Song I'm Wasting on You
The Only One
The Other Side
Together Again
Tourniquet
Understanding
Unknown Title
Unraveling
Use My Voice
Wasted on You
Weight of the World
What You Want
Where Will You Go?
Whisper
Yeah Right
You Got a Lot to Learn
Your Love
Your Star
* Cover songs


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General information

Written by: A. Lee

Good Enough is the thirteenth track and the fourth and final single from Evanescence's second studio album, The Open Door.

The song is described as "a string-and-choir-infused closer distinguished as the band's first truly (almost) contented song" by Evanescence.com.[1] It is decidedly upbeat and showcases an Amy Lee that is letting someone in and who sounds happily in love. She thinks it is the bravest track on the album.[2] She called it "her happy song."[3]

Amy's various descriptions of the song:

Vin1.jpg It's totally scary to be so vulnerable when I know however many metalheads are going to diss it because it's not the exact same thing [as the other songs]. And it doesn't end with, 'And then he died' or 'I pushed him off a cliff' or 'He’s a ghost really.' It's so cool to me and weird to me. I've never written a happy song, ever.[4] Vin2.jpg


Vin1.jpg I had gone through a lot of difficult things during the writing of the whole album, and by the end of it, I had stepped away from those bad situations. That's really hard. You have to be really brave and strong about it. After doing that, I felt so amazing. For the first time I felt like I could write a song based on how good I felt. I have never done that before ever.[5] Vin2.jpg


Vin1.jpg I think Good Enough is the most inspirational, good feeling, non-Goth song you'll ever hear, but there are people who can't get past their initial perception of our music.[6] Vin2.jpg


Vin1.jpg I think "Good Enough" is the best representation of the new me and it was the last song written for the album, written at the very, very end of the writing process. Actually, we were already in the studio recording and we thought we had all the songs and then that song came out of me. I guess by then, I'd gotten so much out of my system, that I needed to sing, that I needed to write about. I actually had made real changes in my life to separate myself from the negative things that were holding me down. After all the fighting and all the struggle and all the stuff, it was like this calm after the storm and I felt really, really good, better than I felt since maybe my childhood.

"Good Enough" actually came out of feeling good, which is a big first for me because I've always felt like I have to be going through something, struggling with something, to write. Passionate, tragic things inspire my music, but I've realized that I don't have to be sad to write a good song because "Good Enough" I think is a wonderful song. It makes me happy to hear it and it's really funny because for one thing, there are no guitars on it, but for another thing, it's sweet and it's admittedly Terry and John's favorite song on the album. I'm glad I did that.[7]

Vin2.jpg


Vin1.jpg "Not only am I a woman, but I'm also very young, and the one thing I'm constantly having to prove is that I'm an artist and not just a singer with some genius behind me," Lee says. "I'm really good at what I do. And I'm the leader of this band. There's a reason I put the song Good Enough at the end of the record. It's the theme of the album and the theme of this life."[8] Vin2.jpg


Vin1.jpg ‘Good Enough’ does find me at peace, and I’m kind of scared of it. It’s weird, it was the bravest song to write and to bring to the table when we were recording the album. It’s just really real, and it was saying what I felt, that for once I wasn’t miserable, or stuck or trapped or sad or grieving. It was happy and well I wrote a happy song. I thought the guys (in the band) were probably going to hate it, and they loved it. It’s cool that ‘Good Enough’ is the last song on the album, because it’s all the things that I went through, and it’s the point that I got to.[9] Vin2.jpg


Amy pointed out that Good Enough was put at the end of the album to symbolize a new beginning in her life:

Vin1.jpg That song -- the last one I wrote for the record -- is definitely the most representative of me now, the way that I feel. If we're talking about the 'new me,' that's it and why it's at the end of the record. You have to go through those things and make the changes you have to make and be there and go, 'Okay, I did it.' It doesn't come that easy.[10] Vin2.jpg


The song was inspired by Josh Hartzler, Amy's then boyfriend and current husband (also the inspiration behind Bring Me to Life).[11][12] She wrote it two weeks after running into him at a party, then she played it for him and felt more nervous than playing in front of an audience.[13] The music video was recorded June 11-14, 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.

The song's instrumental intro was written for the soundtrack of the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, but was not included.[14] Amy claimed she was paid to write the song.[15][16] However, the producers of Narnia rebutted her claim, stating that no Evanescence music had been planned for inclusion in the soundtrack.[17] The intro was included into the song on The Open Door.[14]

The song was added to the setlist of The Open Door Tour (2006-07).[18][19][20][21] It was later played again at the band's Secret Show in NYC on November 4, 2009,[22][23] and at their show in Nashville on August 17, 2011.[24] It was also played acoustically at the Legends & Lyrics show in February 2009.[25]

On the Synthesis listening party in New York on October 3, 2017, Amy made an acoustic performance of Good Enough, in celebration of The Open Door's eleventh anniversary. Watch here.

Versions

Studio versions:

Good Enough

  • Recording date: September 2005 - March 2006
  • Status: Released
  • Released on:
The Open Door (track #13) - The fourth single off the album
German "Good Enough" radio single
  • Length: 5:31

Good Enough [Radio edit]

  • Recording date: September 2005 - March 2006
  • Status: Released
  • Released on: Some of the "Good Enough" radio singles
  • Length: 4:35
  • This version doesn't have the one-minute-long intro.

Good Enough [US radio edit]

  • Recording date: September 2005 - March 2006
  • Status: Released
  • Released on: "Good Enough" US radio single
  • Length: 3:54
  • This version starts with Amy singing, and doesn't have the lines "so take care what you ask of me, cause I can't say no" at the end.


Live versions:

Good Enough [2006-2007 live]

  • Performing period: October 5, 2006 - December 8, 2007
  • Example: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas (December 10, 2006)

Good Enough [2009 live]

Good Enough [2011 live]

  • Performing dates: August 17 and November 4, 2011
  • Performed at: War Memorial Auditorium, Nashville (August 17) and HMV Hammersmith Apollo, London (November 4)

Good Enough [2012 live]

  • Performing date: June 20, 2012
  • Performed at: Olympic Fencing Center, Athens, Greece

Good Enough [Acoustic 2006]

  • Performing period: August - September 2006
  • Example: AOL Music Sessions (August 3)
  • Length: 4:34
  • Performed by Amy Lee (piano, vocals) and David Eggar (cello)

Good Enough [Shorter acoustic version]

  • Performing period: October 2007
  • Example: ABC's The View
  • Length: 3:45
  • Performed by Amy Lee (piano, vocals) and a solo cello. The space between the two verses is much shorter and the song ends with Amy's vocal break that would normally come before the line "so take care what you ask of me..."

Good Enough [Legends & Lyrics acoustic]

  • Performing date: February 23, 2009
  • Performed at: Legends & Lyrics, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Status: Unreleased
  • Length: Unknown

Good Enough [Wellspring House acoustic]

  • Performing date: November 7, 2013
  • Performed at: Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Massachusetts
  • Status: Unreleased

Good Enough [Bluegrass Underground acoustic]

  • Performing date: March 8, 2014
  • Performed at: Bluegrass Underground, McMinnville, Tennessee
  • Status: Unreleased

Good Enough [Synthesis Live]

  • Performing period: October 14, 2017 - April 9, 2018
  • Status: Released
  • Recording date: November 3, 2017
  • Released on: Synthesis Live (track #18)
  • Length: 5:36

Lyrics

Studio, live and acoustic versions

Under your spell again
I can't say no to you
Crave my heart and it's bleeding in your hand
I can't say no to you

Shouldn't have let you torture me so sweetly
Now I can't let go of this dream
I can't breathe but I feel

Good enough
I feel good enough for you

Drink up sweet decadence
I can't say no to you
And I've completely lost myself
and I don't mind
I can't say no to you

Shouldn't have let you
conquer me completely
Now I can't let go of this dream
Can't believe that I feel
Good enough

I feel good enough
It's been such a long time coming,
but I feel good

And I'm still waiting for the rain to fall
Pour real life down on me
Cause I can't hold on to anything this
Good enough
Am I good enough
for you to love me too?

So take care what you ask of me
Cause I can't say no

US radio edit and shorter acoustic version

Under your spell again
I can't say no to you
Crave my heart and it's bleeding in your hand
I can't say no to you

Shouldn't have let you torture me so sweetly
Now I can't let go of this dream
I can't breathe but I feel
Good enough
I feel good enough for you

Drink up sweet decadence
I can't say no to you
And I've completely lost myself and I don't mind
I can't say no to you

Shouldn't have let you conquer me completely
Now I can't let go of this dream
Can't believe that I feel
Good enough
I feel good enough
It's been such a long time coming, but I feel good

And I'm still waiting for the rain to fall
Pour real life down on me
'Cause I can't hold on to anything this
Good enough
Am I good enough for you to love me too?

Video

Amy Lee playing the piano, surrounded by fire, in the video for "Good Enough"

The video for "Good Enough" was recorded between July 11 and July 14, 2007 on Vaci utca (Vaci street) in Budapest, Hungary. Vaci utca is the most famous street in central Budapest. It was directed by Mark Webb and Rich Lee, and produced by DNA.[26]

On July 30, 2007, an unfinished version of the video was leaked on the Internet. That version had the unedited special effects replaced by descriptions on the screen.

The official version of the video debuted during MTV's TRL on September 10, with Amy Lee presenting the video, as it was announced at Evanescence.com.[27]

A day before its official debut, the final version of the video in a wider ratio was leaked on YouTube.

The video can be watched on YouTube.com.

On the book

The book in the video

During the video, Amy writes on a book:

Can't let go of this dream
I can't breathe but I feel
Good enough
For you to love me too
I Shouldn't have let you

Behind the scenes

The Behind the Scenes for the "Good Enough" video is available to watch on YouTube.

Commercial release

Exquisite-kfind.png Main article: Good Enough Single

The "Good Enough" single was supposed to be commercially released in Germany on November 16, 2007. The single was later delayed, with a release date of December 14th.[28][29] The single was eventually canceled, even though SonyBMG promoted the single on their website.[30]

Tracks released with the radio singles include:

  1. "Good Enough" [Radio edit]
  2. "Good Enough" [Album version]
  3. "Good Enough" [Video]

Guitar tabs & sheet music

References

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