By Your Side

Album: Over and Underneath (2008)
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  • Why are you striving these days?
    Why are you trying to earn grace?
    Why are you crying?
    Let me lift up your face, just don't turn away

    Why are you looking for love?
    Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough?
    To where will you go child?
    Tell me where will you run, to where will you run?

    'cause I'll be by your side wherever you fall
    In the dead of night whenever you call
    And please don't fight these hands that are holding you
    My hands are holding you

    Look at these hands at my side
    They swallowed the grave on that night
    When I drank the world's sin
    So I could carry you in and give you life
    I wanna give you life

    And I'll be by your side wherever you fall
    In the dead of night whenever you call
    And please don't fight these hands that are holding you
    My hands are holding you

    Here at my side wherever you fall
    In the dead of night whenever you call
    And please don't fight these hands that are holding you
    My hands are holding you

    'Cause I, I love you, I want you to know
    That I, yeah I love you, I'll never let you go
    No, no

    And I'll be by your side wherever you fall
    In the dead of night whenever you call
    And please don't fight these hands that are holding you
    My hands are holding you

    Here at my side wherever you fall
    In the dead of night whenever you call
    And please don't fight these hands that are holding you
    My hands are holding you

    Here at my side
    My hands are holding you Writer/s: Jason David Ingram, Michael Donehey, Phillip Larue
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, ESSENTIAL MUSIC PUBLISHING, Peermusic Publishing, Spirit Music Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Cindy KaneHeard this song in my sleep recently but heard Mom I love you in the refrain. Lost my son a couple years ago. Thought he was reaching out.
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