By Your Side

	  		By Your Side  by Tenth Avenue North    


Intro: G   Em   D   C    

Verse 1:    
        G    
Why are you striving these days?    
            Em    
Why are you trying to earn grace?    
            D                       C    
Why are you crying?  Let me lift up your face    
                G    
Just don't turn away    

Verse 2:    
 G    
Why are you looking for love?    
                  Em    
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough?    
                  D    
To where will you go child?    
                       C    
Tell me where will you run?    
                  G    
To where will you run?    

Chorus:    
              Em               C    
Cause I'll be by your side wherever you fall    
       G                D    
In the  dead of night whenever you call    
    Em                 C                        G    
And please don't fight these hands that are holding you    
   D              G       
Yeah My hands are holding you    

Verse 3:    
        G    
Look at these hands, and My side    
                   Em     
They swallowed the grave on that night    
                         D                     C    
When I drank the world's sin so I could carry you in    
             G                      D    
And give you life, I wanna give you life    

Chorus:    
            Em                 C    
And I'll be by your side wherever you fall    
       G                D    
In the dead of night whenever you call    
    Em               C                          G    
And please don't fight these hands that are holding you    
   D                           
Yeah My hands are holding--    

Em                   C    
Here in my side wherever you fall    
       G                D    
In the dead of night whenever you call    
    Em               C                          G    
And please don't fight these hands that are holding you    
   D              G       
Yeah My hands are holding you    

Bridge:    
      D         Em    
Cause I, I love you    
   C          D    
I want you to know    
     D       Em    
That I, I love you    
     C           D    
I'll never let you go    

Chorus:    
            Em                 C    
And I'll be by your side wherever you fall    
       G                D    
In the dead of night whenever you call    
    Em               C                          G    
And please don't fight these hands that are holding you    
   D                           
Yeah My hands are holding--    

Em                   C    
Here in my side wherever you fall    
       G                D    
In the  of night whenever you call    
    Em               C                          G    
And please don't fight these hands that are holding you    
   D                   Em       
Yeah My hands are holding you--  mmm mmmm    
Em               C               G    
Here in my side My hands are holding you    

C    G    
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