anonymous October 8th, 2006 11:15AM  

This is song is about her new boyfriend, josh. In "the open door" cd in the "thanks section". There's a part there that says "josh, you are my muse. Nothing inspires me the way you do. Thank you for all my missing pieces. Thank you for your strength and love. Thank you for letting me see myself through your eyes, because only then could I know that I am good enough for you". Basically, amy is saying that she let him flirt with her for a while and then she started to ("shouldn't have let you torture me so sweetly, now I can't let go of this dream") she feels like she's good enough for someone again. These next lines:
"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"
means that she's waiting for the worst to happen between them because she could never hold on to her relationships, no matter how badly she wanted too.

Chris October 30th, 2006 04:24PM  

I believe this song is about finally being with someone- filling the heart once more, but not as oneself. Because ones self isn't "good enough" they've become someone they're not "torture" but for something so sweet "sweetly." saying "yes" went they meant "no" but loving every moment of it, but also finding frustration, which only drowns itself in the found love. "am I good enough for you to love me too?" am i, without this aegis...Also worthy of your love? And with such a cataclysmic answer she gives up and sings...Just be careful...Because I can't say no... *not to you my love*
plainly I believe it's about losing yourself in a great desire.

anonymous December 20th, 2006 01:45AM  

I agree with EvanescenceFreak! this song is really a sum up of all her feelings and how she now feels 'Good Enough' because everything has come clear and turned up right

anonymous December 21st, 2006 05:02AM  

its about being happy but still being cautious that something could come along and ruin it but you will enjoy it while it lasts, this part shows it best


"im still waiting for the rain to fall and 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 to?"

anonymous October 21st, 2007 12:38AM  

In my opinion, this about her relationship with Josh.
In her relationship with Ben (Or I think it was with him, it all too confusing to understand their relationship. X.x). . . .it was an abusive one. He would make her feel like scum and this was the man she used to love.

"Can't believe that I feel...

Good enough,
I feel good enough."

And since she's been with Josh, her self esteem has come back and she has a new confidence, but that confidence still has some holes in it. . .

"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?"

And those holes are affecting her greatly, even though she feels better about her self, she could feel even greater with them sealed up. She feels as if these blissful moments will pass and she will be forced to move on, since life is a cruel thing. It's as if reality will take her away from him and he will move on to someone else, who she believes is "good enough."

Shorty1224 January 21st, 2008 04:25AM  

Well, this will be my second time sending my interpretation of a song, so here goes...ok, I think this song is about (whether it be about Amy herself or someone else) who are in love with someone and cares about them so much that they can't say no to them, the person means so much to them that they would do anything for that person no matter what. Even through the most difficult times and as bad as it may be, they will still stick by that person. Just to prove they are "good enough" for that person and wondering if that person will ever notice...please let me know if any of you agree or disagree.

anonymous March 30th, 2008 04:36AM  

I have been listening to this song for a month straight...I met a guy. My husband hasn't been very good to me. But, I have stuck with him through it all and I don't plan on leaving anytime soon. But, it reminds me of a guy I met. I know I can't be with him, but he makes me feel a completely different way than anyone I have ever met. I know we want to say what were feeling but we cant...not allowed. So he needs to remember that even though he makes me feel, "good enough" he needs take care of what he asks of me, because I feel like I can't say no to him.

HowCouldYou July 4th, 2009 08:56AM  

The lows and the highs make life worth living, cherish each moment, two minutes, two weeks, years, can seem like a blink, and after I shed tears watching and listening to this song, my chest opens up and for a while I am good enough. 'Be careful what you ask of me because I can not say no' and I struggle every day to do just that because I never want to be so in love with someone that I feel like a puppet.
a man befriends another giving promise of a job, the man brings the other to an apartment and there is a sixteen year old girl and twenty something year old 'boyfriend'. The man tries to get the 'boyfriend' drunk while drinking heavily himself and the other watches. The girl says she is going to take a shower and the other is tempted to rape her because he has been without sex, housing, regular food, and steady work for so long and she is so pretty. The other makes faces to the man getting drunk implying the thoughts and the man understands and there is a pivotal moment where the other realizes something must be sacrificed to save the girl and I speak out and say, 'NO!' and the man is upset. The man is very strong working with tires all day long. He has a confrontation with the 'boyfriend' and the other sits there. The 'boyfriend' fends off the man after a struggle and yet the man tries several times more before stopping. Barking, a good dog, playful and loving, brown, perhaps a rot is jumping around and barking because of the wrestling. The man starts to wrestle and get rough with the dog, I think the dog's name was Jack, but I could be wrong, and the man punches the dog in the jaw full force and laughs. The 'boyfriend' is completely quiet. The girl finally gets out and quickly leaves to go to her mother's apartment and the girl smells divine. The man signals me to punch the dog also, and at first I say no, but the other did it anyway several times, in all the dog, Jack, was punched at least two dozen times. The other leaves, did not get a job since the man would not provide him with a phone number or a shower nor the divine. Some time goes by and the other goes back to see if the girl is still there, still under her 'spell' and he comes across someone else and instead of asking for the girl out of embarrassment because she was so young askes if the dog that used to be there is still around. Was told something happened to that dog, it stopped playing, all it would do is lay around, and soon after it died from 'a cancer'.
I cry every time I see the video and listen to the song and first listened to it a few years ago and had to change the station to keep from showing my emotion. Not until brightside did the video resurface and I chose not to say anything afraid to expose too much to too many and afraid that I had already said too much.

geny August 11th, 2009 01:24AM  

In the first verse she's meaning to tell him how basically she would move heaven and hell for him saying 'I can't say no to you' and 'crave my heart and its bleeding in your hand'. On the second verse she doesn't want to let go of something so sweet as meaning to that beautiful dream she thinks she's living in when she's with him and saying I think that for the first time she feels good enough for something or someone.

Forth verse is kind of telling him that she 'completely lost herself' but she really doesn't care as long as she's with him. When she says 'I'm still waiting for the rain to fall, pour real life down on me' she's meaning to tell him that she's waiting for someone to pinch her and tell her its all a lie because nothing until that point has been so perfect and that she has never been able to hold on to anything like that. In the end 'so take care.....' she's telling him to be careful what he asks her because she can't say no, at least to him.