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  1. Deep Down

From the recording MY MUSEUM

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2. The Deep Down – from 2005/2006 (I think). I was giving a lesson to one of my favorite Manhattan School of Music students at the time, Natalie Galey, and towards the end of the lesson I played the beginnings of this tune, with a lot of spontaneous nonsense syllables for lyrics. She offered help with the lyric-writing process, to which I happily said yes. A song about hiding your true nature to avoid any shred of confrontation. The icing on the cake was getting to record this with Natalie ‘live’ in a studio in Queens a few weeks later.

Lyrics

DEEP DOWN - (music - Peter Eldridge, lyrics - Peter Eldridge & Natalie Galey)
Natalie Galey - vocals
Peter Eldridge - vocals and piano
Produced by Peter Eldridge

Live inside a sea of smiles
She never shows a sign
Never an unenchanted word
Tend her gardens
Stand her ground
Above the deep down

Who do you think you are
She wonders every single day
How long can truth be unannounced
How long can you carry that around
Deny the deep down

There are those
Studied from afar
Have the lives they want and nothing more
Not a care in the whole world
Like a month full of Sundays
Hide what’s inside, never notice
Sunday’s passing by

She takes the traveled road
Where its safer just to be polite
Easier just to play the part
These are the things she tells herself
From a place where she protects herself
Unmoved, removed from the deep down
Deep down
Deep down
Deep down