The Other Side - Brendan James

I was a child once, the fear of the world in my eye

Far from the safety of the other side

I colored by numbers, learned how to tie my own shoes

Like all of the others I just prayed I’d make it through

Prayed I would make it through

Oh Mother, look how your boy turned out 300 miles from that small town

You never stopped believing

Oh Daddy, it hurt to watch you walking out, but understand it made me stronger

now

And so satisfied, so full of pride, thank you here from the other side

I’ll always remember, the kids and how mean they’d been

Eleven years old and I could not fit in

But I made it through high school and college according to plan

Where pressure was never greater to become a man

Would I become a man

Oh mother…

Mother look how your boy turned out 300 miles from that small town

And Dad it hurt to watch you walking out, hear the piano do the crying now

For all the preachers and the teachers now, for all the ones who never let me

down

I’m so satisfied, so full of pride, standing here on the other side,

thank you here from the other side

Outro:

Here on the other side I’m taking my time

There’s nothing to fear, there’s nothing to worry about on the other side

I remember when I thought I’d never find

The other side