By Your Side (early version)

All Words and Music by James Branam

All instruments and vocals by James Branam

Audio

Lyrics

We met upon this road called life

Both of us searching for a friendly sign

Weary from travelling, from loneliness and rue

I would like to have the chance to walk along with you

I’m not asking for promises, I only ask for the truth

And the chance to share this road with someone like you

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I don’ t want you to follow me and I don’ t want to follow you

But if you turn your head to the left or the right

I will be walking right by your side

If you trust in me, I will trust in you

On this road through day and night

I will be right by your side, by your side

Along life’ s roads we’ve made our way

Choosing new directions, changing day by day

You can call coincidence, you can call it fate

You can call it anything, but we stand right here on this road today

We can discover the future, we can see forever

And wherever we choose to go, we’ll see it together

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We’ve just met and we don’t know

Each other well so let’s just let this feeling grow

Every day we walk along, we’ll discover something new

On this road called life, that brought me here to you

I don’t want to change you or take advantage of you

I only want to be your friend and perhaps to love you

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Our paths have crossed, our ways have merged

Our lives have met, our fate secured

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