Album: Galore (1990)

Charted: 13 72

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• However much I push it down
  It's never enough
  However much I push it around
  It's never enough
  However much I make it out
  It's never enough
  Never enough
  However much I do
  
  However big I ever feel
  It's never enough
  Whatever I do to make it real
  It's never enough
  In any way I try to speak
  Never enough
  Never enough
  However much I try to speak
  It's never enough
  However much I'm falling down
  It's never enough
  However much I'm falling out
  It's never enough
  Whatever smile I smile the most
  Never enough
  Never enough
  However I smile I smile the most
  
  So let me hold it up just one more go
  Holding it over just once more
  One more time to fill it up
  One more time to kill
  Whatever I do it's never enough
  It's never enough
  
  However much I push it down
  It's never enough
  However much I push it around
  It's never enough
  However much I make it out
  It's never enough
  However much I do
  Never
  Never enough
  However much I'm falling down
  Never enough
  However much I'm falling out
  Never, never enough
  Whatever smile I smile the most
  Never enough
  However I smile I smile the most
  
  So let me hold it up just one more go
  Holding it over just once more
  One more time to fill it up
  One more time to kill
  Whatever I do it's never enough
  Never enough
  So let me hold it up just one more go
  Holding it over just once more
  One more time to fill it up
  One more time to kill
  Whatever I do it's never enough
  It's never enough
  It's never enough
  It's never enough
  It's never enough
  It's never, it's never enough Writer/s: Boris Williams, Porl Thompson, Robert James Smith, Simon Johnathon Gallup
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

• Mark Saunders from Stroud, UkThis is not exactly how it happened actually....I was there working with the band. It was just Robert and I working on a song called 'Harold and Joe' which later became a b-side. It was a quirky mostly programmed electronic track. The rest of the band were there and getting increasingly frustrated because they were not being used by Robert to play on anything. I could sense that they were not that happy with me, although it was Robert that was pushing to go in the more electronic direction....I personally loved the glorious sound of Robert with the full band. One day the band walked into the live room of the studio where I was working with Robert (we were in the control room). I remembered being glared at by Simon....they all looked pretty pissed off - understandably. They started jamming together. We couldn't hear it because the soundproofing between the rooms was great - I could just see them through the big window. After a while Robert went off to the bathroom. I was curious. We only had one vocal mic set up to record Robert - a beautiful vintage Neumann 47. I opened up that channel on the desk to hear what the band was playing and was blown away by what I heard. It sounded exactly like they looked - a combination of passion and anger. I think their intention was to blow what Robert and I were doing out of the water - and they certainly did that. When Robert can back into the room, I said 'Listen to this!'. He loved it and immediately went in and started working with them on the track. And as they worked out what would become 'Never Enough', myself and the studio assistant started furiously miking up the drums and guitar amps etc in an attempt to capture this glorious noise while the emotions were still raw. It was a wonderful experience to witness. In my memory, it all happened very quickly after that.....but maybe Robert wrote the lyric overnight and we recorded him sing the next day. One things for sure though, the main riff of the song was written while the band were jamming it out before Robert got involved.
  
  Incidentally, the first day I walked into the studio for that session, I passed a room where Perry was on his own playing a keyboard with a pair of headphones on. the studio assistant told me that they'd just told him he was upgraded from roadie to keyboard player as Robert had just fired Roger. Quite the upgrade! Perry was extremely nervous and busy learning all the keyboard parts. He later switched to guitar. I was very happy for him, he's a lovely guy.
• April from Houston, Txooops I had to edit it correctly. It will read correctly now. but i didn't like this song at first. it grated my nerves until i realized the song is about that feeling. it is never enough and that's frustrating.

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