Never Enough

Album: The Way Of The Fist (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about good people who are constantly getting taken advantage of and being used. When they need help, however, they are usually denied.
  • "Never Enough" was the second Five Finger Death Punch single, following "The Bleeding." It remains one of their most popular songs, performed at most of their concerts.
  • This song caused some friction between the two 5FDP mainstays, lead singer Ivan Moody and guitarist Zoltan Bathory. Speaking with Metal Hammer, they had this exchange:

    Moody: "We were recording at Korn's studios in LA and we were working with this guy – I'd rather not say his name – and he came up with this idea that we should do a poppier song. I started writing to it, and Zoltan came in like, 'This is complete s--t!'"

    Bathory: "I was like, 'This is everything I despise! This is exactly what we promised we'd never do!' It was the only time in our career that a third person from outside the band was involved."

    That third person is probably Leopold Ross, who is listed as a writer on the song along with Moody and Bathory. He's best known for his work writing scores for movies and TV shows.
  • Jeremy Spencer, Five Finger Death Punch's drummer at the time, credits this song's radio airplay for helping gain interest in the band. "We made a record [The Way Of The Fist] before we had any help at all," he explained to Live Metal. "Zoltan and I started tracking the record before we even had a full band. So we just did everything we wanted to do. I thought we made a record that was what I wanted to hear and what I wanted to play."

    "It became obvious that after 'The Bleeding' broke at radio, they were, like, 'We would love to play something else, but we can't exactly play 'The Way Of The Fist', because [laughs] it's all double bass and F-bombs,'" he continued. "They're, like, 'It would be great if you could have something else to play.'"

    "It was this weird spot for us, but we just decided, 'Hey, let's write something that we like that could still work for what they're asking for,"' Spencer added. "So we came up with 'Never Enough', which is one of our fan favorites, especially when we play it live. It sounds like Death Punch, yet it's not brutal enough to where they're not gonna play it."

    He concluded: "It's important these days to have radio supporting you because it helps set up your tours and it just brings more awareness to everything that's going on."
  • In 2008 the song was added as a bonus track to Five Finger Death Punch's debut album, The Way Of The Fist, which was released in original form a year earlier. The album established the band as rising stars in metal, and they fulfilled that promise over the next few years with songs like "Under and Over It" and "Lift Me Up."

Comments: 2

  • Nathan Ritz from Paoli, InI can relate to this song whatever i say is never enough
  • Dylon from Grant, Mione of my fav songs by them. they have a small number of songs but they kick A$$
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