About The Song
“The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough” is a song by American pop singer Cyndi Lauper. It was released as a single in 1985, and is from the soundtrack of the film The Goonies. It was her fifth top-10 single on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Before its inclusion in The Essential Cyndi Lauper in 2003, the song did not appear on any of Lauper’s studio albums or the 1994 compilation Twelve Deadly Cyns…and Then Some. Lauper admitted in an interview with Matthew Rettenmund that she hated the song, which was why she had chosen not to include it on her first compilation.
Several artists, such as Bombones, Haruko Momoi, the Advantage, New Found Glory, Radical Face, Minibosses, and Tomoyuki Uchida have covered the song. The song was featured in several iterations of Konami’s Goonies video games, most notably The Goonies for the Famicom and The Goonies II for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was also featured in an instrumental version in Pop’n Music 10.
Steven Spielberg had made Lauper the musical director for The Goonies soundtrack. She sought out new bands to be included in the project including her friends, the Bangles.
Lauper originally titled the song simply “Good Enough”, but it was changed by Warner Bros., who wanted the title of the film to be part of the song title for marketing reasons.
Lauper refused to play the song live after 1987. She finally incorporated it back into her live show during several dates in Australia in 2004. Fans kept requesting the song and Lauper eventually sang the first verse and chorus a cappella. Due to overwhelming fan recognition, she has since incorporated the song back into her live set.
In 2012, Lauper performed a parody version entitled “Taffy Butt” for the second-season premiere episode of the Fox animated television series Bob’s Burgers; the episode is an homage to The Goonies. Her son, a fan of the series, insisted she record the new version.
In 2014, “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough” was heavily featured in a Goonies-themed episode of the ABC comedy series The Goldbergs.
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Lyrics
Here we are hanging onto strains of green and blues
Break the chain and we break down
But it’s not real if you don’t feel it
Unspoken expectations
Ideals you use to play with
They’ve finally taken shape
What is good enough (good enough for you)
What is good enough (good enough for me)
What is good enough (good enough)
It’s good enough for me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Now you say you’re starting to feel the push and pull
Of what could be, but never can
You mirror me, stumbling through those
Old fashioned superstitions
We find too hard to break
Oh, maybe you’re out of place
What is good enough (good enough for you)
What is good enough (good enough for me)
It’s good enough (good enough)
It’s good enough for me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Is good enough (good enough for me)
It’s good, it’s good enough (good enough)
It’s good enough for me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Old fashioned superstitions
We find too hard to break
And maybe it’s out of place
What’s good enough (good enough for you)
What is good enough (good enough for me)
It’s good, it’s good enough (good enough)
It’s good enough for me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Good enough for me)
It’s good, it’s good enough (good enough)
It’s good enough for me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Huh, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Thank you!
I love you too
This next song is a very special song for me
Because I wrote it for one of my best friends
It’s called “Boy Blue”