A raw journey from despair to defiant trust. The psalmist cries out “How long?” four times — how long forgotten, how long hidden, how long suffering, how long defeated — before pivoting at the center to declare “But I trust in Your faithfulness.”
“How long, Lord, will You continue to ignore me? Forever?”
The arrangement opens with barely audible duduk and sparse fingerpicked acoustic at 72 BPM, building through desperate pleading and dark cello drones. At the pivot point, the mood shifts bright as lyre enters and the tempo lifts to 80 BPM. The chorus explodes with full band and gang vocals before stripping back to solo duduk, tender and fading to silence: “So good to me.”