There are moments in Paul McCartney’s long career where he reaches beyond songcraft into something closer to meditation, and “Deep Deep Feeling” from McCartney III (2020) is one of those rare pieces. At nearly eight and a half minutes, it isn’t built for radio or chart success — it is built for immersion. It’s Paul slowing time down and asking us to sit with the intensity of emotion.
The song circles around a single truth: love, at its most powerful, is overwhelming. “Sometimes you just can’t describe the deep deep feeling…” he sings, his voice aged but resonant, carrying the weight of decades of love, loss, and memory. It isn’t a polished pop ballad — it’s a wandering journey through the spaces of the heart, where joy and ache coexist.
Musically, the track is layered and hypnotic. Gentle piano chords repeat like a mantra, while subtle shifts in rhythm, synth textures, and guitar flourishes keep the song in motion without ever rushing. The repetition mirrors the lyric — that love, when it’s real, is something you return to again and again, always finding it as mysterious as before.
What makes “Deep Deep Feeling” extraordinary is its vulnerability. McCartney doesn’t try to pin down the emotion with clever imagery or ornate storytelling. Instead, he admits its elusiveness — that some feelings can’t be fully explained, only felt. It’s a humility that only an artist of his experience could embrace: after decades of writing some of the most beloved love songs in history, here he is, still admitting that love is beyond words.
His vocal performance is central to the song’s intimacy. There are moments where his voice is fragile, almost breaking, and others where it steadies into quiet strength. That contrast gives the song its humanity: it isn’t perfect, but it is true.
“Deep Deep Feeling” is not about spectacle; it’s about honesty. It shows Paul McCartney, in his late seventies, still searching, still marveling at the mysteries of love. And in that search, he offers us something profound — a reminder that the deepest emotions are not meant to be solved, but lived.
In the end, the song lingers like a long exhale — a piece less to be analyzed than to be experienced, a meditation on love that feels as infinite as the feeling itself.