Son

Son is the companion piece to Great Titles, four tracks later on the same album, and it does the same job from the other side. Great Titles is a catalogue of the Father’s names. This is a catalogue of the Son’s.

Verse three is where that becomes literal. The vine, the shepherd, the light of the world, the door, the daily bread, the way and the truth and the life — six of the I AM sayings from John, run together in eight lines across six different chapters. Nothing is explained; they are simply listed, in the way you would list what someone is to you rather than what they have done.

One of them is placed rather than listed. You are the door comes with a condition attached — when our faith hits the floor — so the way out is named at the moment of collapse rather than at the height of conviction. It is the only line in the verse that says when.

The chorus then does something the title has been setting up. It says you are the son of God, and immediately says you’ve made us heirs of God. A song named for one son ends by making the listener into others — which is Romans 8:17, and which is the entire Father album arriving at its argument from the opposite direction. Padre asks for a father. Son points out what that makes you.

Two lines in verse two are worth stopping on. Just like the deer, our heart pants for You is Psalm 42:1 — the third song to draw on that psalm, after HERE, which cites the same verse, and Deep, which takes its title from verse seven.

And then: show us your face, nothing else will do.

That line was released in 2018. In March 2019 Yemi began writing a song he could not finish for five years, and in the memo for Behold The Lamb he describes a retreat that birthed in him a desire to see the Lord face to face. Face to Face eventually arrived in 2025. The wish was already sitting in a released song before it had a name or a melody, and this is the earliest dated instance of it.

Jacy Mai features. There is also an acoustic version recorded live in the studio.