| The Night's Too Long | |
| Cover: | File:The_Night's_Too_Long_single_cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Lucinda Williams |
| Album: | Lucinda Williams |
| B-Side: | Price To Pay |
| Released: | 1989 |
| Length: | 3:10 |
| Label: | Rough Trade |
| Prev Title: | Changed the Locks |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | I Just Wanted to See You So Bad |
| Next Year: | 1989 |
"The Night's Too Long" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. It was released in 1989 as the second single from her third album, Lucinda Williams (1988).
The song was recorded by American country music artist Patty Loveless. It was released in 1990 as the second single from her fourth studio album On Down the Line.
The song is about a restless young woman who decides to move from her small town to the big city, where she can take in the nightlife and meet the man of her dreams. The first part of the song has her sacrificing to set up her move, which takes place in the second half of the song. Her new office job (in the song's third verse) takes a back seat to her going out to the bars, where she dances and eventually consummates a relationship with the man she had been looking for.
Robin Denselow, writing in The Guardian, called the song an "epic narrative", stating that it "echoes Springsteen at his best."[1]
| The Night's Too Long | |
| Cover: | The Night's Too Long.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Patty Loveless |
| Album: | On Down the Line |
| B-Side: | Overtime |
| Released: | September 23, 1990 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 3:10 |
| Label: | MCA Nashville |
| Producer: | Tony Brown |
| Prev Title: | On Down The Line |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | I'm That Kind of Girl |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Lisa Smith and Cyndi Hoelzle described the song favorably in Gavin Report, where they wrote that "Patty plaintively sings the story of a woman trying to break out of her small-town life."[3]
The song charted for 19 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, reaching No. 20 during the week of December 8, 1990.[5]
. The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 206.