Ride By Your Side | LISTEN HERE

Inspired by the true story of a 3-car collision in which I almost lost a loved one. Don’t rush.
Written and performed by Dylan Owen, juli
Produced by Skinny Atlas, naebird
Mixed by Jeremie Inhaber
Mastered by Hector Vega at Bespoke Sonics
Cover artwork by Dylan Owen

LYRICS

You can tell me the hard truth and I can take it

You can tell me the worst news and I can take it

Rip the band aid off it hurts but I will take it

But please don’t make me lose you

You are the love of my life

Here’s a crash course in what we felt

At that Los Angeles intersection

Thank God you wore a seat belt

If you hit pavement and bleed out

If your wheel slips and your feet fail

If you’re given to God as debris sails

I don’t wanna relive all the details

Of the cops and the lawyers and tow trucks

Suddenly we were the grown ups

And imagine if you never woke up

When you always been telling me “don’t rush”

We revel in heaven and reckon with anything

That we get left when we’re dead and gone

This debt of ours is a mental scar

Of your rental car

Don’t wanna to imagine you dying to breathe

Forty five miles an hour the glass up and flying

Aside at the scene

The steel and aluminum grinding

There might have been angels

A fire released from the fibers beneath

And I’m rushing across every sidewalk

And desperately hoping to God that you’ll smile at me

And then I arrive at the scene

You can tell me the hard truth and I can take it

You can tell me the worst news and I can take it

Rip the band aid off it hurts but I will take it

But please don’t make me lose you

You almost were the loss of my life

My kinda Koala adventure taker

Thank God for your seat belt

Thank God you weren’t a second later

With four lanes at that intersection

There’s one way that this could have gone

Your alma mater or Santamaria

Just wanted something to look upon

You closed your eyes at the broken lights

With no self assurance you dealt the courage

There at the hospital holding hands

With no real understanding of health insurance

It shattered your back

Cracking the glass

I know that we joke

That we’re bad at the math

But one car

Plus another car

Plus another car

Plus another car

The passenger side was totaled

If I was there

I would have died

But some themes are just on time and

Some people just survive and

No one saw it coming

How our lives would collide

So I mean it when I say

I’ll always ride by your side

No one saw it coming

How our lives would collide

So I mean it when I say

I’ll always ride by your side
Till we die

You can tell me the hard truth and I can take it

You can tell me the worst news and I can take it

Rip the band aid off it hurts but I will take it

But please don’t make me lose you

Until we die

Until we die

I will ride

By your side

Until we die

Until we die

I will ride

By your side

Until we die

Until we die

I will ride

By your side

Until we die

Until we die

I will ride

I will ride

By your side