Father and Son

Written and performed by Cat Stevens for his 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman, this song frames an exchange between a father not understanding a son's desire to break away and the son who cannot explain himself but knows it is time to seek his own destiny. Stevens sings in a deeper register for the father's lines and a higher one for the son's, with backing vocals provided by guitarist Alun Davies, and the song was listed at number 408 on Rolling Stone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time" in 2021.