Branan Murphy releases his new single “Father” (Paravel / DREAM) available on all digital service providers today. The song is released as both a single track and a multitrack coupled with a Dolby Atmos version on Apple Music. This upbeat pop song was produced by Grammy nominated and 2021 Dove Award winning producer of the year Jordan Sapp. Murphy also teamed up with Sapp and Dove Award winning songwriter, Paul Duncan to pen the song.
“Father” is a worshipful song amongst the chaos of the world but dig deeper and there’s another layer that addresses the cry’s of absence fathers in the home.
“I was in the studio with Jordan Sapp and Paul Duncan and it was right around the time of all the tragic things that were happening in Afghanistan last year”, Branan explains during a recent interview. We were talking about all of that, and I remember we were all just overwhelmed at how extra crazy the world seemed that day. From Covid to all the political stuff in America to Afghanistan. It was just very real to us that day that the world doesn’t just need God, it needs a Father.
“There’s so much fatherlessness everywhere as it is, but then on top of that, to not know your Creator, your heavenly Father, that’s a hopeless place to be. When you think about it, so many times, the world just looks like a bunch of children without their dad. Sadly, for way too many, that’s true. So we started writing, diagnosing our issues, and we wanted a song that was a desperate cry for help, a cry for the love and the presence of the Father in the mess we’ve made on earth, knowing that he’s not far at all from any of us.”
“Father” will be sent to radio at the turn of the 2023 year and is available now to download/stream.
Lyrics:
Headlines screaming in my face
Welcome to another day
More of the same ole, same ole pain on planet earth
Sirens flying, no escape
How could I look away?
Too much to get through, I need a rescue, how long do we have to wait on planet earth?
Like I’m in a movie that I don’t wanna see
Eight billion episodes of tragedy
Father
Father
Can you hear us crying out
Even if we don’t know how
Father
Father
Oh, we need your love and we need it now
Will you come and dry our tears?
Cause we’re all just children here
Are we numb to all we’ve seen?
Maybe it’s just a bad dream
We turn our misery into memes
On planet earth
So much damage to undo
From self inflicted wounds
We went fishing for division, mission accomplished, that’s how we living on planet earth
So we need you, we need you
Father
Father
Can you hear us crying out
Even if we don’t know how
Father
Father
Oh, we need your love and we need it now
Will you come and dry our tears?
Cause we’re all just children here
Tell us it’ll be ok
Show us that you’re wide awake
When the sad song don’t fade
Remind us that you run this place
No, I’m not ashamed to say I just need my dad
When it all goes south
Your presence is all around
And when the heart pounds
I know you’re familiar with that sound
It’s the reason why you made a way out
Father
Father
Can you hear us crying out
Even if we don’t know how
Father
Father
Oh, we need your love and we need it now
Will you come and dry our tears?
Cause we’re all just children here
If the pain won’t disappear
We just need to know you’re near
