“How Much Longer” is the opening track off of Eve 6’s 1998 self titled album.
This song is about going at something that you basically know is not happening, but you still try to get to it, in a state of insane denial.
Drag this neurotic to hysterics
Leave him balked and unfulfilled
Holding inside outwardly patient
Till the time he'll call it
Alluring exotic twisted hero
Leaving him more lonely still
He waits around, he's spun around
And left without the power to stop it
Peers don't know what they can't see
They can't see inside of me
It's sickening how comforting the privacy of the mind can be
Yeah
How much longer will I try before I realize
I'm desperate in the situation that I'm in again
I'm exhausting yet another topic
I've exhausted frequently with no regrets
Oh yeah
With no regrets
Abstruse and lacking rationale
But making so much sense somehow
A stone has blocked my hourglass
No progress made, no time's run out, yeah
I'd almost rather have the latter
Save myself with sad defeat
A stone just broke my hourglass
I peel the skin that had me trapped
Peers don't know what they can't see
They can't see inside of me
It's sickening how comforting the privacy of the mind can be
Yeah
How much longer will I try before I realize
I'm desperate in the situation that I'm in again
I'm exhausting yet another topic
I've exhausted frequently with no regrets
Oh yeah
How much longer will I try before I realize
I'm desperate in the situation that I'm in again
I'm exhausting yet another topic
I've exhausted frequently with no regrets
Oh yeah
How Much Longer was written by Jon Siebels & Tony Fagenson & Max Collins.
How Much Longer was produced by Don Gilmore.
Eve 6 released How Much Longer on Tue Apr 28 1998.