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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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  All I Want
  Kodaline
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  All the Right Moves
  OneRepublic
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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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  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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  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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  July
  Noah Cyrus
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  Let You Down
  NF
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  Lies
  Evanescence
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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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  Remember Everything
  Five Finger Death Punch
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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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  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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  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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