It's Not Enough

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"It's Not Enough"

Song by The Who
From the album Endless Wire
Recorded
Genre	Hard Rock
Song Length	4:02
Record label	Polydor
Endless Wire Album Listing
God Speaks Of Marty Robbins	It's Not Enough	You Stand By Me

It's Not Enough is a song by The Who and is written by Pete Townshend and his partner Rachel Fuller, and is featured on The Who's most recent album Endless Wire.

[edit] History

The song originally started as a song by Townshend's girlfriend Rachel Fuller, but he liked the music and asked if he could use it for the new Who album. He later explained the origins of the song: "Watching Mepris, the ‘60s film by Jean Luc Godard starring Brigitte Bardot, I found myself wondering why it is that we choose people to partner who we feel aren’t quite right. Bardot asks her lover, ‘Do you adore my legs?’ He nods. ‘My breasts?’ He nods. ‘My arms?’ He nods. She goes over her entire body. He nods every time. When she’s finished she gets up and tells him, ‘It’s not enough". Bardott and the film 'Mepris' are mentioned specifically in the song.

Townshend explained on one of his and Fuller's In The Attic video podcasts that he was worried some people may criticize the song because it was co-written by his girlfriend, but he goes on to say that it sounds more like The Who than anything else on the album.