By Your Side (Tenth Avenue North song)
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"By Your Side" is a song by contemporary Christian
Contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...

 band Tenth Avenue North
Tenth Avenue North
Tenth Avenue North is an American contemporary Christian music band from West Palm Beach, Florida. They took their name from a major east-west road in Palm Beach County.The group was formed while attending Palm Beach Atlantic University...

 from their debut album Over and Underneath
Over and Underneath
Over and Underneath is the first major label studio album from Christian pop rock band Tenth Avenue North. It was released on May 20, 2008 and peaked at #130 on the Billboard 200 in April 2009. The album features two number 1 hit singles: "Love Is Here" and "By Your Side".-Release:Over and...

. It was released as the album's lead single in August 2008, and reached number 1 on R&R
R&R (magazine)
R&R was a weekly music trade publication that followed the radio industry and tracked the monitoring of current songs by format, station and audience cumes...

's Christian contemporary hit radio
Contemporary hit radio
Contemporary hit radio is a radio format that is common in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts...

 chart in January 2009. In 2010, "By Your Side" won the 41st Annual GMA Dove Award for Song of the Year. Also, this song we have a compilation album WOW Hits 2010
WOW Hits 2010
WOW Hits 2010 is a two-disc compilation album composed of some of the biggest hits on Christian radio in 2009. Disc one features more adult contemporary hits, while disc two features the CHR–pop and rock hits. The album charted at number one on the Hot Christian Albums chart and number 33 on the...

and WOW #1s
WOW Number 1s: Yellow
WOW #1s: Yellow is a two-disc compilation album of thirty songs heralded as the biggest Christian hits of 2005-2010. It debuted at #9 on the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart.-Disc one:#"God with Us" - MercyMe...

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Composition

The song is written from the perspective of Jesus Christ. Tenth Avenue North lead singer Mike Donehey's vocals have been compared to Jon Foreman
Jon Foreman
Jonathan Mark Foreman is the lead singer, lead guitarist, main songwriter and co-founder of the alternative rock band Switchfoot. He started Switchfoot in 1996 with drummer Chad Butler and bassist Tim Foreman ....

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The lyrics
Lyrics
Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...

 talk of how Jesus promises to be with us through all the circumstances that we face in life.

Awards

In 2010, the song won a Dove Award for Song of the Year at the 41st GMA Dove Awards
41st GMA Dove Awards
The 41st Annual GMA Dove Awards were held on April 21, 2010 recognizing accomplishments of musicians for the year 2009. The show was held at the The Opry Entertainment Complex in Nashville, Tennessee, and was hosted by Bart Millard....

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