By now I shoulda been broken 

On the rocks of rising life's ocean 

Just another ship lost at sea 

By now I shoulda been scattered 

In the wind of my lonesome travels 

Like a thousand dandelion seeds 

And I shoulda come unraveled 

At the seams like a well worn sweater 

But you hold me together 



My hope shoulda been shattered 

Like a bottle out behind some tavern 

From a fight that you had no chance to win 

My dreams shoulda been ashes 

Gone up in smoke like a book of matches 

Tossed away and never gonna burn again 

And I shoulda worn right through 

Like an old cowboy's boot leather 

But you hold me together 



[Chorus]

I feel your love surrounding me 

Strong enough that I can believe 

There won't ever be a storm that I can't weather 

Cause you hold me together 

[X2]



I shoulda been long forgotten 

Just a footnote down at the bottom 

Of a page in the book of what coulda been's 

My heart should lie in pieces 

On the ground like a goodbye letter 



You hold me together 

[Repeat]