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Deep Is The Way

by gena rose bruce

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1.
Future 04:02
It's time to wake up Stop calling it love It’s time to get real I’m only hurting myself I wanted to be your star But you couldn’t see a future in me So it’s time to go home, To reclaim all I’ve lost To find spirit and hope I wanted to be your star But I'm tired of believing in a future so bright Time to wake up Stop calling it love Time to get real You're only hurting yourself Dreams never die, they just dull your light Dreams never die, they just steal your heart
2.
I avoid myself I destroy myself I need help I can't fight this alone You only get so far on your own I need you now I've got a drive for destruction I’ll surely die in the wrecking of my life I’ll need your help to survive I avoid myself I destroy myself I need help I’ve spent so long in the dark Convinced this is my only path But I see now I’ve got a drive for destruction I’ll surely die in the wrecking I’ve got a drive for destruction I don't want to die In the wrecking of my life I need your help to survive
3.
I think I'm a little bit in love with you words I dread to say so I sing to you I wish no one else was around I wish all the lights would go down And you would see me shine in the dark I wish we were already drunk So that the truth would come out And you would hold me and not hold back And if tonight we had a free pass To love with no conscience To lead with our hearts Would you fall, foolishly in love? I think you’re a little bit in love with me words you dread to say, so just sing to me Weren't you the one who always said too many times you let life go by well now's the time to take the wheel and drive Cause tonight we have a free pass To love with no conscience To lead with our hearts and to fall, foolishly in love You watch me every morning running around like you got all the time in the world well am I just pouring heart shaped coffee for someone who wanted a gin? you watch me every morning standing by the doorway leaving the bus too soon well are we just planting flowers by the freeway, painting our motel room?
4.
Harsh Light 02:16
It’s been a rocky few months but soon we will be smooth sailing You and I back to our old selves yeah we will be holidaying Cause there’s just something about knowing someone so well That after all of these years you can just tell We will be alright, yeah we can survive, we can outshine this harsh light And I know these are restless nights but soon we will be sleeping soundly You and I back in each other’s arms baby we’ll be slow dancing Cause there’s always our song to remind us Of that very first night, we found love Yeah well be alright, we can survive, we can outshine this harsh light And we can't escape life’s dreariness and at times we will feel the emptiness It's all around us, making its way through but all these questions will lead us to the truth And our love with hold true
5.
Misery and misfortune I’ve just gotta own my situation There's some kind of romance to reckless passion The anguish and the agony Well I'm just happy to be feeling I had some kind of rebirth in my darkest hour Misery and misfortune I'm gonna own my situation There's some kind of charm to my desperation The outrage and the reckoning I had reached my breaking point A defining moment in my darkest hour I cried tears of clarity I screamed sense back into me I was carrying such a heavy load but now I’m free from my own I saw things in a new light See me shining, I've come back to life I was carrying such a heavy load But now I’m free from my own Misery and misfortune Misery and misfortune Misery and misfortune I’m just gonna own my situation I’m gonna own my darkest hour
6.
I’m in love with you So let me awaken you I’m going to follow you through the darkest day Just like the sun sadness is real Just like the sun it’s going away So don’t get lost in a world that favours fast living Cause you’ve got a mind for drifting and dreaming A beautiful mind that will both terrify and free you But for a beautiful mind, deep is the way There is a place for you there is light It’s just hard to see through the heavy fog And I know how quickly thoughts can turn dark But you can stay in this place of love Don’t get lost in a world that favours fast living Cause you’ve got a mind for drifting and dreaming A beautiful mind that will both terrify and free you But for a beautiful mind, deep is the way Don’t let them break you You’re going to break through Take the mind that time gave you Take my love and my time too
7.
At times the world will throw you around It forces you to learn, growing up young Deep in the dark, you find the depth to your heart Destiny will do its worse, but love will carry on So darling don’t you dread that morning light Wake up and see the morning stars shine There’s no explaining, why these things happen All I can tell you is when they do I’ll be here for you And at times we all need a place to run and hide Space to be alone, free to just dream Cause deep in the dark, you find the truth to your heart Destiny will do its worst but love travels far So darling don’t you dread that morning light Wake up and see the morning stars shine There no explaining why these things happen All I can tell you is when they do I'll be here for you
8.
I've always been a success You just hadn’t noticed Slipping through the cracks I'm too chic to be mainstream Gotta love yourself You gotta love yourself You learn to love yourself When there is no one left I’m living in a fool's paradise I’ll be dreaming till the day I die But I'd rather be a dreamer than feel bitter and envy Yeah I’d rather be a dreamer than admit defeat Oh I know how to finesse never needed your recognition I'm not waiting for your confirmation I'm a star And heavens only so far away Eventually you feel no pain Only strength in sadness Freedom in madness I’m living in a fool's paradise I’ll be dreaming till the day I die But I'd rather be a dreamer than feel bitter and envy Yeah I’d rather be a dreamer than admit defeat
9.
Love 04:22
You’re patient with me You’re confident in us And despite misgivings You trust love And love is for the foolish Love is for the dangerous For those unafraid For those who embrace their liberty and take freedom of their own heart oh baby I’ve spent too long, dwelling in the pain of my past I'm ready to fly, I’m ready to fall I’m ready to feel, to feel it all For you And when I am with you I feel alive And suddenly scared to die I don’t want to waste no more time cause time is for the optimist time is for the selfish For those unafraid For those who embrace their liberty and take freedom of their own heart Oh baby I’ve spent too long, dwelling in the pain of my past I'm ready to fly, I'm ready to fall I'm ready to feel, to feel it all With you
10.
Baby I love you, I do I'm just not made to love only you Baby I'm trying to be true My last wish is to hurt you The conflict between head and heart The mystery of desire Like moonlight trying to comprehend The mystery of the night Baby I love you, I do But what's right for one and what's real for two? Baby I try so hard to be true My last wish is to hurt you The conflict between head and heart The mystery of desire Like moonlight trying comprehend The mystery of the night Baby I'm trying to be true My last wish is to hurt you So can we have a conversation with no expectations just a heart to heart? cause you and I are best friends first and foremost but love is not simple its complex and undefined and I need to find my own way
11.
Captive 04:46
I will not go silently I will fight I am not just charmed by you I am captive Day and night I live and die for you It’s all on the line It’s do or die There is no other way to love I will not go silently I will fight I am not just exposed by you I am ruined Day and night I lived and died for you I put it all on the line It’s do or die There is no other way to love

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Deep Is the Way is the sophomore album from Australian singer-songwriter and horticulturalist Gena Rose Bruce. The album finds her working with long time collaborators and forging a new wildcard relationship.

Through lockdown Bruce corresponded with the iconic songwriter Bill Callahan, their connection resulting in them writing two songs together: ‘Foolishly In Love’ and the title track to the album, ‘Deep Is The Way’ (which also features the two of them duetting). Bruce also reconnected to Tim Harvey (Jade Imagine) who she worked closely with on her debut album.

Following the success of her acclaimed AMP-nominated debut Can’t Make You Love Me, Bruce had international touring planned, including stops in the US for SXSW, the UK and Japan. Then the pandemic flattened Bruce’s months of preparation, doubts about her future and artistic worth crept in. Her journey into balancing ambition and self-worth came to fruition over the recording of her new album.

In the absence of touring, she has relished nature’s therapeutic qualities, through her newfound love of gardening, which she’s now studying. Investing time in life’s cycles of renewal and growth gave Deep Is The Way its name, and the context for its pivotal title track.

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released January 27, 2023

Written by Gena Rose Bruce (all songs), Tim Harvey (2, 3, 4, 6, 10) and Bill Callahan (3, 6)
Produced and Mixed by Tim Harvey
Engineered by Tim Harvey and Marcel Borrack
Mixed at The Wick Studios, Brunswick
Mastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering, London

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gena rose bruce Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne musician and horticulturist, Gena Rose Bruce, navigates emotional turmoil, fragility, death and honesty on her sophomore album Deep Is The Way, out now.

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