Now I’m finding it gets used all over the world, by all sorts of churches it seems to be as accessible to a traditional church as it is to a house church, and I’m excited by that. It just makes his sacrifice all the more personal, all the more amazing, and all the more humbling.Īs I was thinking through this, I just began to sing the melody, and it flowed in the sort of way that makes you think you’ve pinched it from somewhere! So the melody was pretty instant, but the words took quite a bit of time, reworking things, trying to make every line as strong as I could. Intro: Eb Ebmaj7 Gmaj7 G/Bb Eb Ebmaj7 Gmaj7 G/Bb Eb Gm7 Fm7 I know your eyes in the morning sun C7 Fm7 G7 G/Bb I feel you touch me in the pouring rain Eb Gm7 Cm7 And the moment that you wander far from me Fm7 G/Bb I wanna feel you in my arms again Gmaj7 Gm7 And you come to me on a summer breeze Fm7 C7/9 Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave Gm7 G/Bb And it's me you need to show Eb How deep is your love Ebmaj7 Is your love, how deep is your love G. And what was my part in it? Not only was it my sin that put him there, but if I’d lived at that time, it would probably have been me in that crowd, shouting with everyone else ‘crucify him’. Minor keys, along with major keys, are a common choice for popular music.
According to the Theorytab database, it is the 3rd most popular key among Minor keys and the 8th most popular among all keys. Nevertheless, I’d been meditating on the cross, and in particular what it cost the Father to give up his beloved Son to a torturous death on a cross. How Deep Is Your Love is written in the key of E Minor. D G C B Am E Bm Em F Cm Chords for Bee Gees - How Deep is Your Love (cover) with song key, BPM, capo transposer, play along with guitar, piano, ukulele & mandolin. But I don’t go home at the end of a busy day and put on a hymns album! So I don’t think of hymns as where I’m at musically at all!
The Father turns His face away, As wounds which mar the Chosen One. But I distinctly remember getting this feeling one day that I was going to write a hymn! Now, like most people, I am familiar with hymns – they form part of my church background, and I love the truth contained in many of them. How deep the Father’s love for us, How vast beyond all measure, That He should give His only Son. I’d already written quite a few songs for worship, but all in a more contemporary worship style, drawing from my own musical background. Writing this song was an unusual experience for me.