"Side By Side" (McGuire & Simon) - sung by Marialena diFabbio by McGuire & Simon

from EXPRESS - an immersive musical

Words and music by Janine McGuire & Arri Lawton Simon

Lead vocal - Marialena diFabbio
Background vocals - Kellie Cullinan, Janine McGuire, Arri Lawton Simon
Guitar - Jake Ezra Schwartz

#mcguireandsimon

LYRICS
So many different faces in one place.
Different races, different backgrounds,
Different stories being spoken.
But we each put our token in the turnstile,
And board the same train;
We’re each a separate link in the same chain.

We share the same sun, same air.
We’re all just trying to get somewhere.
As we journey from here to there
On this crazy ride
We travel side by side.

So many different players on this stage.
Different ages, different pages
Of a book still being written.
We got different seats to sit in while we’re travelin’,
But we’re on the same track.
The train is moving forward and we can’t go back.

Same sun, same air.
We’re all just trying to get somewhere.
As we journey from here to there
On this crazy ride
We travel side by side.

Look around and you will see
We’re so alike, like family.
There’s so much that we share with one another.
We all feel joy and all feel pain!
We all see rainbows after rain!
We’re really not so different after all.

Same sun, same air.
We’re all just trying to get somewhere.
As we journey from here to there
On this crazy ride
We travel side by side.

Same sun, same air.
We’re all just trying to get somewhere.
As we journey from here to there
On this crazy ride---!
We travel side by side.
We travel side by side.
Mmmmm…