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]