Song #4: Meet Me in Deep Waters
Meet Me in Deep Waters (feat. Seven River Day)
Here we get Andy's thoughts on the song, and then mine.
"I can't regulate you so high above, through the slipstream on the wake of love... see my transgressions..."
AJ:
Adam began this lyric in a cafe in Culver City, CA....
At the time, we were focusing in on specific meaningful words...
And these words became magic to me as they grabbed my imagination.
"I was born here in unforgiving land, that broke my father and bound my hands"
These were the words I needed to know and say.
"Let's leave our places, and leave our paths... and find a new one where no footprints last"
"In deep waters... running fast and free, to the place where we will only be.... only be"
As the words joined into the song, I could feel my story in the lyric.
A story of finding someone you thought could never actually exist.
A story of escape into the newfound reality that could hardly have been imagined, let alone hoped for
A story of new starts -- and finding wholeness that is greater than the brokenness and challenge.
I am so thankful for these words, and I want to sing them at dusk, upon waking, and at all times, whether good or bad.
ADAM:It's so good to hear you say all that.
It breaks my heart how well Andy sings this song because I wanted to sing it this well, but I couldn't. It was meant for me to write and Andy to sing. God and the universe planned it that way. We put this song together on the last day of the record. I'd relapsed into sickness and was running a wicked fever. Sweaty and chilled, I wrote down all the lyrics I had for this song with AJ, and he pieced them together and fleshed them out in ways we hadn't considered. I went back upstairs to sleep while he headed into the studio. About two hour later, I made it down to listen.
Perfect.
I added the "don't let me drown" background vocal because that was all the energy I had. I went back upstairs and slept. I felt jealous and disappointed that I couldn't do lead vocals on this track until I prayed my way out of that. AJ and Andrew had taken this song to a new place, and the more I considered it, I couldn't be anything but grateful. They didn't let me drown. They buoyed me up. It's what the song's narrator feels, too, grateful to find beauty in a relationship and in the river of the present, which flows over the dry bones of his past.
Here we get Andy's thoughts on the song, and then mine.
"I can't regulate you so high above, through the slipstream on the wake of love... see my transgressions..."
AJ:
Adam began this lyric in a cafe in Culver City, CA....
At the time, we were focusing in on specific meaningful words...
And these words became magic to me as they grabbed my imagination.
"I was born here in unforgiving land, that broke my father and bound my hands"
These were the words I needed to know and say.
"Let's leave our places, and leave our paths... and find a new one where no footprints last"
"In deep waters... running fast and free, to the place where we will only be.... only be"
As the words joined into the song, I could feel my story in the lyric.
A story of finding someone you thought could never actually exist.
A story of escape into the newfound reality that could hardly have been imagined, let alone hoped for
A story of new starts -- and finding wholeness that is greater than the brokenness and challenge.
I am so thankful for these words, and I want to sing them at dusk, upon waking, and at all times, whether good or bad.
ADAM:It's so good to hear you say all that.
It breaks my heart how well Andy sings this song because I wanted to sing it this well, but I couldn't. It was meant for me to write and Andy to sing. God and the universe planned it that way. We put this song together on the last day of the record. I'd relapsed into sickness and was running a wicked fever. Sweaty and chilled, I wrote down all the lyrics I had for this song with AJ, and he pieced them together and fleshed them out in ways we hadn't considered. I went back upstairs to sleep while he headed into the studio. About two hour later, I made it down to listen.
Perfect.
I added the "don't let me drown" background vocal because that was all the energy I had. I went back upstairs and slept. I felt jealous and disappointed that I couldn't do lead vocals on this track until I prayed my way out of that. AJ and Andrew had taken this song to a new place, and the more I considered it, I couldn't be anything but grateful. They didn't let me drown. They buoyed me up. It's what the song's narrator feels, too, grateful to find beauty in a relationship and in the river of the present, which flows over the dry bones of his past.
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