[ piano and acoustic guitar hook] [Verse 1] If the world goes under, I will go down beside you. If the earth should open, I will hold the line behind you. Let the towers lose their names, Let the roads return to dust. I have watched the strongest kingdoms Disappear beneath their rust. There’s a low voice in the distance, There’s a warning in the stone. And I’ve learned the end comes quietly Before it takes away your home. [Pre-Chorus] So keep close, Don’t let the dark divide us. I have lost too many souls To leave another one behind us. [Chorus] If the world goes under, I will go down beside you. When the ground begins to thunder, I will find my way back to you. Let the last light leave us, Let the sky be torn in two. If the world goes under, I will go down beside you. Oh, beside you. I will go down beside you. [Verse 2] There are names I never speak now, But I carry every one. Like a weight beneath my armor, Like a shadow from the sun. One was laughter in the wreckage, One was blood I called my own. Both still follow through the silence When I walk these roads alone. I have spent my years believing That a man survives by stone. But the hardest thing I ever learned Was no one stands alone. [Pre-Chorus] So stay close, Though the night surrounds us. There are things beneath this world That have already tried to drown us. [Chorus] If the world goes under, I will go down beside you. When the ground begins to thunder, I will find my way back to you. Let the last light leave us, Let the sky be torn in two. If the world goes under, I will go down beside you. Oh, beside you. I will go down beside you. [Instrumental Refrain] (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh) Beside you. (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh) Beside you. [fade]
