Enough Already
An acoustic performance of another new song from our next record
Never got angry enough to be funny Never stopped caring enough to be cool Haven’t been broken enough to feel holy Never loved someone enough to be cruel Never been hungry enough to get cracking Haven’t quite fallen enough to atone Never could cry hard to start laughing Haven’t stopped moving enough to be home But it’s not like I’m keeping score Only when I feel unsteady Am I getting a little more? Or have I had enough already? Man, enough already I haven’t cleared enough of my record I haven’t covered enough of my tracks I haven’t cashed in enough of my winnings I haven’t tried on enough of my hats But I’ve always failed enough to keep trying I’ve always worked enough to get by I’ve always felt enough hope in the mornings To help me wrestle the demons at night So where’s that medal waiting for? And who is throwing the confetti? Am I getting a little more? Or have I had enough already? Man, enough already Maybe I’ve said enough to be quiet Maybe I’ve stood enough to sit back Maybe I’ve told enough lies to be honest Let someone else try and mount the attack Or maybe I should just ask for help If I’m living in the land of plenty Yet still hoping for something else When I know I’ve got enough already Man, enough already
I recognize I have an incredible amount to be grateful for. By any metric, the career we’ve been able to carve out is well within the top 1% of artists (let alone as an individual - a husband, a father, a man - which is all that really matters anyway). And yet I can’t ever seem to let these stone cold facts truly sink in. I’m sure that would make some of you reading this want to throw up, but I’d venture to say that some version of that ingratitude is true for all of us. Unless we’ve done a lot of work to resist it, our negative biases don’t let us live in the goodness of a moment for too long. We get so caught up in how to maintain it, how to enhance it, how to compare it to someone else’s situation, that we completely forget to acknowledge it properly.
That’s the emotion that I wanted to explore with this song. But I didn’t want to turn it into some bullshit here’s-a-lesson-I’ve-learned-and-would-now-like-to-pass-it-on-tsk-tsk-tsk lecture song that made me just sound like an ass. I wanted to show my own ugly struggle with the concept. I wanted to show that I don’t have a handle on the matter. That there are times in my life that it simultaneously consumes me and embarrasses me because I am so consumed. Trying to show that it even it exhausts me through the last line of each chorus - “man, enough already.”
It’s also got Griff singing lead, which we haven’t had since Roll Tide. Long overdue! Consider my part the harmony to his melody. Below the paywall you’ll find us singing this in an empty theatre in Greenville SC as we waited for soundcheck on the outdoor stage. I think I mess up a lyric or two but the take felt too nice to recut only because of that. Hope you enjoy and can’t wait for you to hear the full arrangement.