How Deep Is Your Love (Remixes) - EP album cover by Calvin Harris & Disciples

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How Deep Is Your Love (Chris Lake Remix)

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The reading

A dancefloor plea to be fully known and fully consumed by another person, phrased as a question the singer keeps asking because she cannot get an answer

02 · Interpretation

Bottomless: Reading Calvin Harris & Disciples' 'How Deep Is Your Love'

E Editorial Desk Sep 6, 2026

The song is a request for total intimacy, staged as a question the narrator asks over and over without ever waiting long enough to hear back.

Released in August 2015 as part of the remixes EP built around Calvin Harris and Disciples' summer single, Chris Lake's version keeps the vocal but slows the emotional temperature, pushing the track toward a longer, more hypnotic house arrangement. Where the original single is designed for radio impact, this remix is designed for the middle of a set at two in the morning, when the question in the title starts to sound less like flirtation and more like an actual demand.

What the verses ask for

There are only two short verses in the entire track, and together they sketch a very specific kind of longing. The first verse is physical: the narrator wants to be breathed in, to become the air her partner needs, to move across a body without restriction. The phrase "no inhibition, no fear" frames sex as the removal of everything guarded. This is not a seduction; the seduction is assumed. What is being asked for is permission to disappear into someone else.

The second verse flips inward. Instead of touch, the narrator asks to be seen and named: to have her eyes opened, to be told who she is, to be let in on secrets. The closing line swaps "fear" for "sin," which quietly raises the stakes. The first verse imagined a body without hesitation; the second imagines a self without guilt. Taken together, the verses ask for erotic and psychological transparency in the same breath.

Why the chorus is a question

The hook does almost all the emotional work. "How deep is your love?" is answered with two comparisons that pull in opposite directions. The ocean is a natural image, vast but knowable, something you can measure by descending into it. Nirvana is a spiritual image, a state rather than a place, and by definition unmeasurable. Between those two similes sits the line "hit me harder again," which reframes depth as intensity, something you feel by force rather than distance.

That contradiction is the point. The narrator keeps asking the same question because none of the available metaphors quite fit. Love here is treated as a quantity, and the song's frustration is that quantities of feeling refuse to hold still.

The repetition as meaning

On the page, the track looks almost absurd: the title phrase repeats more than twenty times, often alone on its own line. In the Chris Lake remix, that repetition is the structure. Each drop returns to the same four words, and the vocal is chopped, echoed, and re-triggered until it stops functioning as speech and starts functioning as pulse. A question you ask once is a question. A question you ask fifteen times is a symptom.

This is how a lot of 2010s house music handled emotion. Instead of building a narrative, tracks like this one isolated a single line of feeling and let the rhythm interrogate it. The remix format is crucial: by removing some of the pop compression of the original mix and giving the vocal more room, Lake makes the obsessiveness of the lyric audible.

Why it endures

The original single became one of the biggest dance-pop crossovers of 2015, and the remix package extended its life in clubs well past the summer. Part of the reason both versions still circulate is that the song refuses to resolve. The question is never answered on the record, so listeners keep supplying their own answer every time it plays. In a genre often accused of emotional shallowness, a track built entirely around asking how deep something goes is a small, effective joke that also happens to be sincere.

Themes catalogued

desire intimacy obsession surrender club euphoria

Track Info

Released Aug 7, 2015

Album How Deep Is Your Love (Remixes) - EP

Length 05:09

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03 · Lyrics

"How Deep Is Your Love (Chris Lake Remix)"

I want you to breathe me

Let me be your air

Let me roam your body freely

No inhibition, no fear

How deep is your love?

Is it like the ocean?

What devotion are you?

How deep is your love?

Is it like nirvana?

Hit me harder again

How deep is your love?

(How deep is your love?)

How deep is your love?

Open up my eyes and

Tell me who I am

Let me in on all your secrets

No inhibition, no sin

How deep is your love?

Is it like the ocean?

What devotion are you?

How deep is your love?

Is it like nirvana?

Hit me harder again

How deep is your love?

(How deep is your love?)

How deep is your love?

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04 · FAQ

Frequently asked

What does 'How Deep Is Your Love' by Calvin Harris and Disciples actually mean?

It is a question addressed to a lover, asking them to prove the scale of their feeling through physical and emotional openness. The two short verses ask for bodily freedom and for the partner to reveal secrets, while the chorus turns the title into a demand disguised as a question.

Is this song related to the Bee Gees' 'How Deep Is Your Love'?

No. Despite sharing a title, the 2015 Calvin Harris and Disciples track is an original house record, not a cover or interpolation of the 1977 Bee Gees ballad. The shared phrase reflects how common the question is in pop lyrics rather than a direct link between the two songs.

What does the line 'Is it like nirvana? Hit me harder again' mean?

The line compares love to a spiritual peak state, then immediately asks for more force. It reframes depth as intensity rather than distance, suggesting the narrator can only measure feeling by how strongly it lands on her, not by any calmer standard.

How is the Chris Lake remix different from the original Calvin Harris and Disciples version?

Lake's remix extends the track past five minutes and pushes it toward a more traditional house arrangement, with a longer build and a more hypnotic use of the vocal. The pop hook remains intact, but the remix gives the repeated title phrase more room to feel obsessive rather than anthemic.

Why does the phrase 'How deep is your love?' repeat so many times?

The repetition is doing the emotional work that verses usually do. By looping the question without ever answering it, the song turns curiosity into fixation, which suits both the lyric's theme of wanting total surrender and the club context the remix is built for.

Who sings the vocal on 'How Deep Is Your Love'?

The lead vocal is performed by Ina Wroldsen, a Norwegian songwriter and singer, though she was not credited as a featured artist on the original release. Her voice carries both the whispered verses and the pleading chorus that the remix stretches out.

Why did 'How Deep Is Your Love' become such a big club track in 2015?

It arrived at a moment when mainstream EDM was pivoting back toward deeper, garage-inflected house sounds, and the track split the difference between festival pop and after-hours atmosphere. The remix package, including Chris Lake's version, gave DJs multiple ways to play it across the night.