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“Stand By Me” is a rock song by Ben E. King. It seems like this song was made for me. When you are at the echelon position and things are working according to plans, you will witness a lot of people who will stand by you.
But when faced with challenges of life, you see yourself standing alone begging for someone to stand by you as a source of strenght. And it’s disheartening to realize that, there is no single human being beside, including the one that claimed to be your lover. What a life we live in!!
I always thought my love would stand by me during facing hard time in the year 2022 but I was wrong. The one good thing that came out of our relationship was that I learnt to trust in God most, because He will stand by me through thick and thin.
“Stand by Me” is a song originally released in the year 1961 by American sensational singer, and songwriter Ben E. King, also written by him, along with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
According to King, the title is derived from, and was inspired by, a spiritual written by Sam Cooke and J. W. Alexander called “Stand by Me Father,” recorded by the Soul Stirrers with Johnnie Taylor singing lead.
However, in 1960, Ben E. King was inspired to update the early 20th-century gospel hymn “Stand by Me” by Charles Albert Tindley, which was based on Psalm 46, “will not we fear, though the Earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.”