This song was truly written for my father and myself he passed away july 16th 2007 i was almost 24 a month shy and right before i was going to get married in Long Island and planned it all with him. After many rocks where thrown in my path and his father passed a year latter on the 13th it was like deja-vu . some how you have even captured the last moment with my mothers mother as the last time my dad saw her which had been 10 years he had left her with a big kiss which she has never forgot . many of your songs are unbelieveable, but this one i could have wrote myself. my father left me with many tools,as he would say. but he would have never wanted to leave me at such a broken time and would have held me as said in the song. miss you daddy ! i am the only daughter or child he had and he was a amazing person.The last time i saw him i was building in the garage a tikki tourch holder and for the fist time said now i bet you wished you had a son ,his response was i was everything he ever wished for .That was the last time i saw him , and i am gonna keep my name for many financial reasons which is kinda funny !! This was a very touching song . YOU GUYS ARE EXCELLENT!!

Best of luck on tour, Alyssa Locascio

This link is from a Q&A session where they talked about this song and who is the inspiration for it: http://music.aol.com/video/qanda-tell-us-about-the-song-enough-for/the-f...

this is my absolute favorite song by the fray. i can't really relate that well because my dad's always been there for me, and i'm so thankful for that. my dad's father died when he was young and he had to become a father figure to his brother who was a teenager at the time. i can't imagine going through that. one of my best friends of almost 10 years just lost her father about a month and a half ago and it's been really hard. it makes me that much more thankful for my dad. the words are so powerful, the song brings tears to my eyes. absolutely beautiful song.

I really, really, really need to know the background of this song. My father was never in my life and it has changed me as a person. It has molded who I am. I promised myself that when I was 18 I would go to him, and we would know each other. But when I was 15, he killed himself. He had always wanted a boy, but had 3 daughters... and he left us all broken. The last time I talked to him it was on the phone and he pretended he was someone else, a "friend" of my mother's. i will be 24 this year, and I still resent him for never loving me.

i like its not a silly love song like other bands make...your work is amazing!!!

I think everyone interprets this song in their own way. For me, my dad's still alive--but I barely consider him a father figure. He's never been there for me or my two sisters. We go to his house a couple days every week, but it seems as if he's a stranger. It hurts, but there's nothing to do about it. I guess we werent what he wanted, we were never enough.
At age 17, I know how much it hurts and i would never wish it upon anyone. In a way it has made me stronger. In the future, I know I'm going to be there for my kids in every way that he wasnt there for me.

I agree with pretty much everything everyone else has said. My father, a recovering alcoholic, died in a car accident when I was 14 - someone ran a stop sign... He had finally gotten to a place where he was starting to become the father I think he always wanted to be, and was taken in the blink of an eye, and never had the opportunity to say and do the things he could have. This song is like a storm of emotion when I hear it - it all comes rushing back. The first time I heard it, every hair on my head stood up...What an amazing, well though, perfectly worded and crafted song. Well done & thank you for this. =o)

My dad was just killed 4 months ago at age 63. You wrote this song for me. He left me broken 4 months before he was killed.