Kacey Musgraves hates goodbyes, but in “Deeper Well,” the title track of her forthcoming album, she learns that parting is such sweet sorrow. When we last heard from the East Texas singer-songwriter in 2021, she was still healing from a divorce, haunted by her camera roll, and scared to be alone. Fast forward two years and Musgraves is once again navigating post-breakup terrain. But this time, she has no problem letting go if it means brighter horizons ahead. So farewell, soul suckers. So long, dark energy. And goodbye, gravity bong.

With a folky nod to the Emmylou Harris song by the same title, Musgraves catalogs the habits she’s ready to leave behind and surrenders to a new reservoir of enlightenment and replenishment. As if roused from a cannabis-induced slumber, this modern-day Sleeping Beauty finds herself in the heart of the forest without ever leaving the city: “Everything I did seemed better when I was high/I don’t know why,” she sings, accompanied by an acoustic guitar that’s punctuated by ethereal water droplets. Her voice winds through the verses and softly recedes into an ambient spell. She’s going down—do we dare to follow?