♪ "Deeper Water" intro playing ♪
We were, we kind of had gone away for a few days and we were just together in a house—all of us
[Dylan] We were in Palm Springs, which is like an hour and a half away (from Orange County, CA)
[Aodhan] And it was just this, we were like “we want to write something that feels exciting and hopeful”
I think the song kind of started with Joel was playing this bass line
[Dylan] And we were just all hanging out most days just writing and then I think
I had come back in from outside or something and someone was playing that chord progression on
like an open D
It was like this weird tuning and I just, for some reason was like obsessed with it and I picked up the acoustic
and I was like the happiest guy ever
and then Dan was like programming on the drums I think for an hour
we were just obsessed with the chord progression so it was it was, it was pretty fun
It just happened spontaneously and I remember just having like an insane amount of energy for some reason
'cause it was like an uplifting, inspiring, the chord progression was really bright
and so we just ran with it
[Aodhan] and so that bass line started and drums and we kind of just started singing over it and so there was
it was actually a lot of fun. We had the microphone— a live mic—in the room everyone was just singing in ideas
it was Joel who sung, "Lead my heart into deeper waters" just off the cuff
and then kind of, well that actually sounded really cool, so let's try and frame a song around that
[Aodhan off camera] You have good lungs bro. This is hard to sing.
[Joel] Is it? It's not for me. I think, I think because I know where it's meant to.
I think once you get used to it, it's really actually really easy to sing. Yeah but it's just where you inflate
and it's also, like locking into the drums.
it's got that push so it's like, especially on the second, each second line, it's like
[Joel singing] "Lead my faith"
It's got like, "da da da—da da"
Uh
♪ [vocalising parts] ♪
[Aodhan] So I'm holding them longer than I should [Joel] Yeah. Yeah.
[Dylan] This song was definitely one of those ones that took a while to get
it to that, to that place
I know we had a structure and then we brought that,
back from that writing trip, we brought it back and Dan and I spent a bunch of time like
you know fleshing out the parts and the guitars and all that stuff in the bass and
we kind of had the structure pretty set, but even that was like there were so many parts to this song
that we'll probably cut it down
It took a while but like anything good, they, you know, sometimes you just need to keep digging away
and keep working on the songs and this was, this was one of them
♪ [playing piano] ♪
[Aodhan singing "Deeper Water"] ♪ Oh lead me into all You want
Lead into all You are
Lead me into all Your love
Lead me to Your heart
Lead me to Your heart ♪♪
[Aodhan] My favourite lyric in the song is "Dare my trust into all Your greatness"
"Someplace wilder than the safety of these old familiar shores" because I feel like that's so true for all of us
It's so easy sometimes to just rest on your own experiences, rest on, you know, things that you feel comfortable in
and not step out
and I think stepping out in faith is the thing that causes us to not only draw closer to Jesus, but
it actually is where we get to see the fulness of all that God's kind of calling us to
and so there's an excitement in that, so that lyric is, you can't sing that lyric without being like,
"Oh wait, I probably need to not be so familiar in this or that" and so I love that, that line
[Dylan] There was, you know we joked about calling it Oceans 2.0, because there were, I think that lyric
"deeper water" just kind of stuck at one point
We wanted to write a lot about the idea that, you know, reminding that at the end
of the day God's got us and, you know, we we talk about it a lot and we talk about our faith, but
and that lyric goes "Lead my heart into deeper waters" it's like, I’m just gonna, I’m gonna continue to trust
that God's got this sorted
[Aodhan] I feel like this song is for all of us, like you know, I think as Christians is that God is calling us into amazing things
and the biggest thing that sometimes can hinder us is fear of the unknown
[Dylan] I think for people to listen to this song and it's not a lament, it's like it's an exciting kind of upbeat
song and so when I think of people listening to it
I feel like it's kind of like one of those, "Alright, we've got this."
"God's on our side," you know, faith-building kind of songs
[Aodhan] I think for anybody who's going into any, everyday, there's always situations where we're faced with
"I can either choose to be comfortable in this and choose the easy option or I can choose
the faith option" which sometimes is scary and I think for a lot of people, I would pray that as
they hear this song, they would feel encouraged to step out in faith and boldness knowing that
on the other side of that, God actually just He holds it, He holds the future and it's awesome