"Too Long" - Tenacity

written by Mathew Haeffel

vocals/guitars/bass recorded by:

Mathew Haeffel

drums/keys/percussion recorded by:

Dan Budziszewski

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"Too Long" acknowledges that repetitive frustration threatens to deflate endurance.  Importantly, fatigue emerges not only from loss but also success.  Seemingly innocuous inconveniences, initially easy to endure, become annoyingly monotonous. 

 

The song encourages patience and endurance due to lack of alternatives, while recognizing the frustration and fatigue which accompany that course.  The bridge cedes that patience and endurance seem ineffectual due to delayed gratification, but argues it is nonetheless a more prudent path. 

 

Crucially, though frequently done, patience and endurance should not be conflated with giving up or ceding ground.  It is more akin to the embodiment of an immoveable object to meet a seemingly unstoppable force.

 

The lyric video for "Too Long" uses time devices to symbolize the fatigue that builds up over time threatening our endurance.