Sheryl Crow "Always on Your Side" Key

My yesterdays are all boxed up ¹ and neatly put away ²
But every now and then you come to mind ³ …
‘Cause you were always waiting ⁴ to be picked to play the game
But when your name was called, you found a place to hide ⁵
When you knew that I was always ⁶ on your side …..

Well everything was easy then ⁷, so sweet and innocent
But my demons and my angels reappeared ⁸
Leavin’ all the traces ⁹ of the man you thought I’d be
Too afraid to hear the words I’d always feared
Leavin’ you with all your questions all these years …

But is there some place far away ¹⁰, some place where all is clear ¹¹
Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear ¹²
Or are you left to wonder, all alone ¹³, eternally?
This isn’t how it’s really meant to be ¹⁴ …
No, it isn’t how it’s really meant ¹⁵ to be …

Well they say that love is in the air ¹⁶, but never is it clear,
How to pull it close ¹⁷ and make it stay
Butterflies ¹⁸ are free to fly, and so they fly away
And I’m left to carry on ¹⁹ and wonder why
Even through it all, I’m always on your side.

But is there some place far away, some place where all is clear
Easy to start over ²⁰ with the ones you hold so dear?
Or are you left to wander, all alone, eternally ²¹
But this isn’t how it’s ²² really meant to be
No this isn’t how it’s really meant to be …

Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear
How to pull it close ²³ and make it stay ……
Butterflies are free to fly, why do they fly away
Leavin’ me to carry on and wonder why …..?
Was it you that kept me ²⁴ wandering through this life ²⁵
When you know that I was always on your side…?

Vocabulary
to box sth up – to parcel sth up, to put sth away
someplace – American – adv and pronoun – somewhere
American – to start over = to start again

12 The expression ‘people you hold dear’ is rather oldfashioned these days. It is used here because it suits the rhythm and beat of the song.
To wonder = to ask yourself
To wander – to walk casually, or without purpose

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