By Your Side Chords & Tabs
Chords used: G5 (3x003x), Em (x2200x), D5 (xx023x), Cadd9 (x3203x)
Alternate chords for finger picking: G5 (x-10-12-00x), Em (x7900x), D5 (5700x), Cadd9 (x3500x)
INTRO: G5 Em D5 Cadd9 G5
VERSE 1
G5
Why are you striving, these days?
Em
Why are you trying, to earn grace?
D5 Cadd9
Why are you crying? Let me lift up your face
G5
Just don't turn away
Instrumental G5
VERSE 2
G5
Why are you looking, for love?
Em
Why are you still searching, as if I'm not enough?
D5 Cadd9
To where will you go child, tell me where will you run?
G5
To where will you run?
CHORUS 1
Em Cadd9
Cause I'll be by your side wherever you fall
G5 D5
In the dead of night whenever you call
Em Cadd9 G5
And please don't fight these hands that are holding you
D5 G5
My hands are holding you
Instrumental G5
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VERSE 3
G5
Look at these hands, at my side
Em
They swallowed the grave, on that night
D5 Cadd9
When I drank the world's sin, so I could carry you in
G5 D5
And give you life, I wanna give you life
CHORUS 2
Em Cadd9
And I'll be by your side wherever you fall
G5 D5
In the dead of night whenever you call
Em Cadd9 G5
And please don't fight these hands that are holding you
D5
My hands are holding
Em Cadd9
Here in my side, wherever you fall
G5 D5
In the dead of night, whenever you call
Em Cadd9 G5
And please don't fight, these hands that are holding you
D5 G5
My hands are holding you
BRIDGE
D5 Em Cadd9 D5
Cause I, yeah I love you, I want you to know
[ch]D5/F#[/ch] Em Cadd9 D5
That I, yeah I love you, I'll never let you go
Repeat chorus 2 (replace last G5 chord with Em - Cadd9)
OUTRO
G5 D5 Em Cadd9 G5
Here in my side, my hands are holding you oh
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