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Deeper Still
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Sep 27, 2026 updated
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Song Meaning
Ben Fuller opens with a joke that turns serious fast: "my good gracious, won't somebody send some help, I been digging my whole life hoping I might find the well." The digging metaphor sets up its own punchline — "to think I was gonna find God with a shovel in the ground."
"At the end of myself" names the actual turning point, not a decision made from strength but one made from having nothing left: "all I needed was for my strength to run out, at my weakness He was waiting to pick me where I fell."
"I'd be six feet down with dirt on my face" makes the stakes explicit before naming the rescue: "I felt my Savior pull me up out that grave." Jesus' beatitude naming the poor in spirit as blessed, and Paul's confidence that God's power is made perfect in weakness, both sit behind a song that treats running out of strength as the actual prerequisite for the rescue it's describing, not an obstacle to it.
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My good gracious, won't somebody send some help
I been digging my whole life hoping I might find the well
But I heard there's a holy water that never runs out
In the dirt there's a word that's sweeter than honey to my mouth
And to think I was gonna find God with a shovel in the ground
Then I found Jesus
At the end of myself
Cause all I needed
Was for my strength to run out
At my weakness He was waiting
To pick me where I fell
His love goes deeper, oh
Goes deeper still
Oh, sweet mercy
Where would I be without grace
I'd be six feet down with dirt on my face
But I heard my Father's voice
Calling me by name
I felt my Savior pull me up out that grave
And I found Jesus
At the end of myself
Cause all I needed
Was for my strength to run out
At my weakness He was waiting
To pick me where I fell
His love goes deeper, oh
Goes deeper still
It goes deeper, oh
Goes deeper still
I spent my whole life searching
For a well that won't run dry
Turns out all that I was missing
Wasn't all that hard to find
His love is always working
It's never wasting time
Who knew that my rock bottom
Is where I found my life
And I found Jesus
At the end of myself
Cause all I needed
Was for my strength to run out
At my weakness He was waiting
To pick me where I fell
His love goes deeper, oh
Goes deeper still
It goes deeper, oh
Goes deeper still