 By Your Side was released on January 12 , 1999 . The album 's cover art is a blue @-@ tinted nighttime photograph of the band , all dressed in white and standing in front of a lake . The band name is rendered in tiny white lights above their heads , and other small white lights are scattered at their feet . In keeping with the tiny lights theme , the back of the booklet shows a satellite image of the United States at night , in which densely populated areas can be discerned by light pollution , and the booklet contains drawings of constellations . The album 's disc artwork is designed after a centaur with a crow 's head in place of the man 's head . 
