So Far Away Music Video!

Hey guys! We’re so excited to get this music video out to you today. I hope that it enters your eyeballs and travels into your brain for some processing just before it moves south to settle in your heart like sugar into a cold glass of lemonade on a brutally hot summer day! RUN ON SENTENCES RULE!!! In your face Mrs. Steinmetz, from 4th grade!

This song is really special to us. It was initially about a girl, but as the song continued to develop it became more about social justice. It’s basically God asking us, “Look, I know we’ve made a lot of progress fighting human trafficking and starvation and poverty but what are you going to do when you inevitably realize that we’re still ‘so far away?’ Are you still going to fight the good fight or are you going to give up?” Fighting social injustice is a life long battle that we have to continually find hope for every day because in this life, there will always be evil. There will always be greed and selfishness and a struggle for power, so we need to find a way every new day to hold on to that hope that we can fight this evil and people can be restored and redeemed.

When it came time to do the music video though, we didn’t have the budget to get this point across the way we wanted to so the song took on yet another meaning. When the idea came along to do a montage of old footage detailing the story of this band and the struggle we’ve had to keep it going we knew there was only one man for the job; Mr. Isaac Deitz! Isaac painstakingly sifted through nearly 70 hours of footage in order to make this video what it is. He is a great story teller and we’ve gotten to know him very very well through the years. In the context of the video, the song becomes about our perseverance as a band to keep doing this. We’ve had a lot of ups and downs over the past 10 years, and as we get further and further into our adult lives it becomes more and more difficult to do the band. But hopefully you can see that we do this because we love it with everything in us. And we’ll keep holding on to the hope of continuing with the band until we feel like God tells us it’s time to stop.

We love you guys! Enjoy the video and if you get a minute, tweet Isaac at @isaacdeitz and let him know what a great job he did on the video. Thanks!

-Tim and House of Heroes