Brandon Lake and Nick Jonas Drop Prayerful Ballad ‘The Author’ and Remix of ‘Sunday Best’ Song ‘Hope’

After weeks of teasing it out, Nick Jonas and Grammy-winning CCM singer Brandon Lake launched their shock two-song collaboration on Friday (May 1) that includes Lake’s prayerful new ballad “The Author” and a remix of “Hope,” which initially appeared on the Jonas Brothers’ latest solo album, Sunday Best.

“Picked up the Book for the first time in ages/ Still washed me clean with the dust on the pages/ My life is a story I struggle to write/ But is it one worth telling? Is it one You like?,” Lake sings in a excessive falsetto over gently strummed acoustic guitar on the track’s first verse earlier than breaking into the looking refrain: “So who am I? Who am I?/ Am I just a poor preacher’s prodigal son?/ Troubled child, running wild/ Chasing the glory instead of the One/ Who says that I, even I, have something still left to offer?/ So who am I?/ Who am I to question the pen in the hands of the Author?”

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Jonas is available in on the second verse, singing, “Like every good story, you learn from the loss/ And I lost the plot every time I played God/ I live in a moment You already wrote/ It’s proof that I’m someone, yeah, someone You love,” earlier than taking up the chorus. According to a launch saying the brand new single, it was written by the pair throughout a writing camp hosted by Lake in late 2025 and is credited to Lake, that includes Jonas.

“The result is a seamless collision of two worlds: Jonas’ polished pop sensibility and Lake’s powerful, inspirational vocals coming together in a way that feels both unexpected and undeniable,” reads the discharge, which notes that followers started to catch the wind of the team-up earlier this yr when each singers started posting cryptic feedback on their socials, building anticipation for his or her first collaboration.

They additionally group up on the revamp of the chugging pop soul ballad “Hope” from Jonas’ fifth solo album, which dropped in February. The organ-fueled monitor on which Jonas, 33, recollects his youthful days singing in church and prays “the devil loosens up his hold” within the track’s craving refrain, finds the lads buying and selling verses and becoming a member of forces on the hovering refrain: “I need some hope/ Where’s the silver lining cutting through all the smoke?/ I need some hope/ I’m praying that the devil loosens up his hold, hold, hold/ I need some hope.”

Lake lately launched the Lainey Wilson collab “The Jesus I Know Now“while Jonas is gearing up to hit the road for his intimate”A Night With Nick” live performance sequence, which can kick off on June 4 in Niagara Falls, NY on the Fallsview Casino Resort.

Listen to the songs under.

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