Stay By My Side

Stay By My Side, also known as Dream Your Dream or Dusk Tonight, is a mysterious song that most likely originates from Greek discos.

History
On March 5, 2008, Jugge, a frequent user of the site, uploaded SBMS to spiritofradio.ca with no comment on the backstory. The snippet was 0:49 and was missing the intro. On December 22 that same year, a man named Konstantinos uploaded the same song to WatZatSong. The full version was uploaded to zshare which is no longer active. Konstantinos claimed the song was too fast.

In March 2009 user with a nickname of 'DJK' made a few posts asking for the identification of several songs. Both of thsse included the same link to SBMS which was posted by Konstantinos on WZS. In one of these posts he said that he already tried posting the song on New Wave Outpost but (as of February 2021) his post hasn't been found yet.

On a forum post in June 2009, Konstantinos said that the song came from an old disco compilation tape from Greece. He says it is likely European.

In August 2020, the snippet from watzatsong posted by Konstantinos and the snippet posted by Jugge on spiritofradio.ca were combined into an extended version by BSP015.

In October 2020, Jugge was contacted and said that he got the song from someone else who he doesn't remember. It is speculated that this is Konstantinos.

On March 1, 2021, after Calling was solved, Konstantinos, after years of inactivity, thanked the community for the search efforts. Due to his new found activity, nonoseacrest mentioned him about SBMS. The next day, he posted the full version to WeTransfer. The full version can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxiVNi9tVrY. With this, Konstantinos added that he used to collect cassettes from flea markets from 1994-2004 and was interested in mid-80s synth pop, minimal, and euro disco songs from discotheques and pirate radio stations.

Leads
There are not and have never been any significant leads. One Reddit user "seriously considered" Phil Collins a lead due to the similar sounding voice, but this is highly unlikely as Phil Collins is popular enough that someone would have recognized him by now. Furthermore, this is not Collins' style of music as his music is heavy with drums. Many others speculate a Newgrounds origin (similar to Paragon), but this would contradict Konstantinos' claim that it's from a Greek disco tape.