As I sit here grinning like a mule eating briar's   Well it occurs to me that I lost something that was part of me   And it fills this empty house with a feeling   A feeling of even greater emptiness      God strike me dead if I'm never gonna see   My soul comes together again   My lifeline's stretched and now it's thin   Please God strike me dead if I'm never gonna see   My soul come together again      And it's getting purt' near the point   Of feeling pretty numb   As I start to think of all the things   That I wish that I could change and then some      And the numbness turns into pain   Underneath there shows a stain   I try my best to try and hide the things   That eat me up inside      God strike me dead if I'm never gonna see   My soul come together again   My lifeline's stretched and now it's thin   Please God strike me dead if I'm never gonna see   My soul come together again      And I know more every day   Just exactly how it came to be this way   One more chance I'd feel it, one more chance I'd steal it   One chance to do it again, again      God strike me dead if I'm never gonna see   My soul come together again   My lifeline's stretched and now it's thin   Please God strike me dead if I'm never gonna see   My soul come together again, oh      God strike me dead   God strike me dead   God strike me dead