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Songs about Not Being Good Enough

Sometimes your best just doesn't cut it. Here is a list of songs about not being good enough including in-depth discussion of the meanings.

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  100 Ways to Be a Good Girl Skunk Anansie

  "I know 100 ways to be a good girl
  100 ways, my willingness to please
  I know 100 ways to be a good girl
  Still I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone"

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  A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More Touch Me Fall Out Boy

  "Write me off, give up on me
  'Cause darling what did you expect
  I'm just off a lost cause
  A long shot, don't even take this bet"

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  According to You Orianthi
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  Alien Blues Vundabar
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  All I Want Kodaline
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  All the Right Moves OneRepublic
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  Am I Pretty? Maine, The
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  Amsterdam Imagine Dragons
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  Angel By The Wings Sia
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  Bad Day Daniel Powter
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  Being Good Isn't Good Enough Barbara Streisand

  "Being good isn't good enough
  Being good won't be good enough
  When I fly, I must fly extra high
  And I'll need special wings so far to go
  From so far below"

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  Best You Never Had Leona Lewis
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  Better Than Me Hinder
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  Better Than Me Brobecks, The
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  Big Girls Cry Sia
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  Bite My Tongue Relient K
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  Black Damask Motionless in White
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  Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day
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  Breathe Me Sia
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  Broke Modest Mouse
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  Broken Angel Boyce Avenue
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  Coming Down Five Finger Death Punch
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  Cool Kids Echosmith
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  Creep Radiohead
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  Dancing On My Own Calum Scott
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  Dollhouse Melanie Martinez
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  Don't Let Me Get Me Pink
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  Doubt Joywave
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  Enough For You Olivia Rodrigo
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  Everybody's Fool Evanescence
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  Ex-Factor Lauryn Hill
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  Flaws Bastille
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  For You Staind
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  Get it Right Glee Cast
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  Good Enough Evanescence
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  Good Enough Lifehouse
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  Good Enough Sarah McLachlan
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  Good Enough Adelitas Way
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  Good Enough Little Mix
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  Good Enough Cimorelli
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  Good Girls 5 Seconds of Summer
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  Hate Me Blue October
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  Hips Don't Lie Shakira
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  Human Christina Perri
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  Hurt Johnny Cash
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  Hurt Christina Aguilera
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  I Can't Make You Love Me Adele
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  I Slept With Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me Fall Out Boy
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  I'm Just a Kid Simple Plan
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  If We Were a Movie Miley Cyrus
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  In The End Linkin Park
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  In the Lap of the Gods Queen
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  Independence Day Martina McBride
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  It's Time Imagine Dragons
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  Jealousy, Jealousy Olivia Rodrigo
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  July Noah Cyrus
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  Let You Down NF
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  Lies Evanescence
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  Lilith Halsey
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  Loser Beck
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  Made of Stone Evanescence
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  Make Me Wanna Die Pretty Reckless, The
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  Map of the Problematique Muse
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  Maybe I'm Just Tired As Tall as Lions
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  Mirrorball Taylor Swift
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  Move Along All-American Rejects, The
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  Mrs Potato Head Melanie Martinez
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  Never Enough Five Finger Death Punch
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  Never Too Late Three Days Grace
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  Nobody's Home Avril Lavigne
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  Nobody's Perfect Miley Cyrus
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  Not Good Enough For Truth In Cliche Escape The Fate
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  Not Pretty Enough Kasey Chambers
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  Nothing Compares to You Sinéad O'Connor
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  Numb Linkin Park
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  One Step Closer Linkin Park
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  Ordinary Life Simple Plan
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  Perfect Simple Plan
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  Perfect 3 Doors Down
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  Perfect Hedley
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  Perfect Alanis Morissette
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  Perfect Miley Cyrus
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  Perfect Pink
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  Plastic Roses Jessica Sanchez
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  Prison Creed
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  Push Matchbox 20
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  Remember Everything Five Finger Death Punch
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  Serotonia Highly Suspect
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  She's So High Tal Bachman
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  Sink or Swim Tyrone Wells
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  Someone Like You Adele
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  Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word Elton John

  "What do I do to make you love me
  What have I got to do to be heard"

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  Teen Idle Marina and the Diamonds
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  The Depths Of Mice & Men
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  The Last Night Skillet
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  The Outside Taylor Swift

  "How can I ever try to be better,
  Nobody ever lets me in"

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  The Reason Hoobastank
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  Therapy All Time Low
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  This Love Camilla Cabello
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  Too Good At Goodbyes Sam Smith
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  Tragic Endings Eminem
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  Tubthumping Chumbawumba
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  Unfaithful Rihanna
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  Unwell Matchbox 20
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  Way Down We Go Kaleo
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  Welcome to My Life Simple Plan

  No, you don't know what it's like
  When nothing feels all right
  You don't know what it's like
  To be like me

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  What a Good Boy Barenaked Ladies

  I couldn't tell you that I was wrong,
  chickened out, grabbed a pen and paper, sat down and I wrote this song.
  I couldn't tell you that you were right,
  so instead I looked in the mirror,
  watched TV, laid awake all night.

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  White Horse Taylor Swift
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  Who I Am Hates Who I've Been Relient K
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  Who Says Selena Gomez
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  Why Secondhand Serenade
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  With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear Sleeping with Sirens
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  You Candlebox
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  You Pretty Reckless, The
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  You Say Lauren Daigle
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  Zero Imagine Dragons

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