No Height No Depth
Song Meaning
Shane & Shane's "No Height No Depth" builds its whole structure around a single verse from Romans, repeated so many times across the song that it starts to function less like a lyric and more like a fact being memorized: "no height, no depth, no power that comes against can separate me from Your love." Paul's original language is almost untouched.
The verses ground that promise in real weakness rather than abstract confidence — "when I don't have the words to say... when I am broken, I am weak" and "when I don't understand the hurt... when I am fighting to believe." The song doesn't pretend doubt or exhaustion disqualify anyone from the promise; if anything, that's exactly the condition the promise was written for.
"Minute after minute, hour after hour, Your love pursues me, it won't relent" shifts the emphasis from the singer holding onto God to God actively pursuing the singer instead — not a fragile grip that might slip, but a love described as the one doing the chasing. By the final repetitions, stripped down to just "no height, no depth, no power," the song has said everything it needs to and simply keeps saying it.
When I don't have the words to say
When I don't have a song to sing
When I am broken, I am weak
You are never far from me
When I don't have the strength to pray
And I don't have much left to bring
I hear Your voice reminding me
That You are never out of reach
And no height, no depth, no power that comes against
Can separate me from Your love
No death, no grave, not anything I face
Can separate me from Your love
When I don't understand the hurt
But I don't have the answers
When I am fighting to believe
That You are never far from me
Oh, no height, no depth, and no power that comes against
Can separate me from Your love
No death, no grave, not anything I face
Can separate me from Your love
Minute after minute, hour after hour
Your love pursues me, it won't relent
Moment after moment, even in the valley
Your love pursues me, it never ends
Oh, minute after minute, and hour after hour
Your love pursues me, it won't relent
Moment after moment, oh, even in the valley
Your love pursues me, it never ends
No height, no depth, no power
Could ever separate us
No height, no depth, no power
Could ever separate
No height, no depth, no power
Could ever separate us
No height, no depth, no power
Could ever separate
No height, no depth, no power that comes against
Can separate me from Your love
No death, no grave, not anything I face
Can separate me from Your love