v¹ YOU ARE WITH ME
meditative, expressive, guitar sustain, processed electric guitars, prominent bass grooves, gritty male vocals, progressive symphonic rock, creative transitions and resolutions, modulation and resolutions where appropriate, guitar harmonics, guitar ringtones, harmonized overdubs where appropriate, altered rhythm where appropriate, expressive solos
v¹ YOU ARE WITH ME
meditative, expressive, guitar sustain, processed electric guitars, prominent bass grooves, gritty male vocals, progressive symphonic rock, creative transitions and resolutions, modulation and resolutions where appropriate, guitar harmonics, guitar ringtones, harmonized overdubs where appropriate, altered rhythm where appropriate, expressive solos
Lyrics
Instrumental introduction
When I am down. When I can't move.
You're always near. You're always true. When I am tearful and without hope, when I've lost courage, in darkness grope,
When the darkness overflows.
When my faith just comes and goes.
When my hope seems all but gone.
You're the rock I'm anchored on……
You are with me, every way,
When benighted, you're my day.
You give strength when I am weak.
Hope returns whenever you speak.
We cannot live on borrowed light alone.
We should be the brightness in the night, I know.
Lamps filled with oil that we’ve bought on our own…. can shine far more brightly than we have ever known.
I don't want to come to thee when only I'm in need. I want to give my thanks, not just show signs of greed.
I'm grateful for thy patience when my steps may go astray. I'm grateful for thy willingness to show a better way.
What a journey of joy it can be, to glimpse heaven and be let in.
What price shall a man then pay….to return to his home again?
Instrumental interlude
You are with me, every way,
When benighted, you're my day.
You give strength when I am weak.
Hope returns whenever you speak.
We cannot live on borrowed light alone.
We should be the brightness in the night, I know.
Lamps filled with oil that we’ve bought on our own…. can shine far more brightly than we have ever known.
What a journey of joy it can be, to glimpse heaven and be let in.
What price shall a man then pay….to return to his home again?
When I am down. When I can't move.
You're always near. You're always true. When I am tearful and without hope, when I've lost courage, in darkness grope,
When the darkness overflows.
When my faith just comes and goes.
When my hope seems all but gone.
You're the rock I'm anchored on……
Instrumental outro