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How Long

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How Long was released on January 1, 1990 by Blue Note Records as a part of the album Never Too Far

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OVERVIEW

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Dianne Reeves

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Dianne Reeves

Composer

George Duke

Composer

Diane Louie

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

George Duke

Producer

Erik Zobler

Mixing Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Can't stop, no matter how long

I gotta keep holding on

No matter how long

I gotta keep holding on

[Verse 2]

Flash, who pulled the trigger?

A boy of thirteen with a gun

[Verse 3]

Cries piercing the darkness

A mother holds her lifeless son, oh

[Verse 4]

Asking, "Why? He was your brother"

What possesses one so young?

[Verse 5]

We live in a nightmare

Tragedy has made us one

Yeah, yeah, yeah

[Verse 6]

I just wanna know

How long, how long? (Tell me, yeah)

How much more, how long

Is it gonna take?

'Cause I can't take no more

[Verse 7]

Can't stop, no matter how long

I gotta keep holding on

No matter how long

I gotta keep holding on

[Verse 8]

Where, where is my daughter?

She has not come home from school

[Verse 9]

Knock, ten after midnight

Policeman brings the tragic news, oh, no, no, no, no

[Verse 10]

Help me rise out of my darkness

Her two brother still need me

[Verse 11]

Tell me, how, how do I tell them?

This ain't how it's 'spose to be

No, no, no, no

[Verse 12]

Tell me

How long, how long? (I just wanna know how long)

How much more, how long

Is it gonna take?

'Cause I can't take no more

[Verse 13]

Tell me

I just gotta know

'Cause I can't take no more, no, no, no

(Can't stop, no matter how long)

(I gotta keep holding on) I gotta keep moving

Out of the darkness

But where am I to go?

(No matter how long)

(I gotta keep holding on) My children need me

But I can't always be there

Where I need to go

[Verse 14]

It's genocide, suicide, where's my pride?

My hands are tied (I gotta keep holding on)

Save me, help me, save me

Save me (I gotta keep holding on)

I just died, you should've seen his eyes

The promise of the future no more (Can't stop, no matter how long)

(I gotta keep holding on)

[Verse 15]

I got no money

I got no home

I got no husband

No place to go, oh, oh, oh

Lord, Lord, do you hear me, Lord, do you hear me? Yeah

Written by: Carlson Sannie, Diane Louie, Dianne Reeves, Domenico Canu, George Duke, James Reeves

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