How Deep

A deeper cut that showcases Lennox's range as a vocalist and songwriter rather than playing to the sensual persona she's most associated with commercially. "How Deep" operates in the pocket of classic soul inquiry — questions about emotional depth posed over a production that owes a significant debt to Philadelphia soul arrangements: lush strings that enter late, organ swells that punctuate rather than carpet. Her voice here takes on the church-trained quality she's spoken about in interviews, gospel inflection threading through secular content in a way that elevates the material without making it preachy. The question driving the song is relational — how deep does this go, how far will you follow me — and it's asked from a position of genuine uncertainty rather than performance. Lennox is at her most interesting when she lets ambiguity live in the lyric, and this song does exactly that, resisting the easy resolution of reassurance. The final third loosens into extended vocal runs that feel improvised even when they aren't, showcasing a technical command that her more stripped-back recordings sometimes deliberately conceal. A slow-driver or late-evening kitchen song — something for the hours between midnight and three.