By now I should've been broken On the rocks arisin' life's ocean Just another ship lost at sea By now I should've been scattered In the wind of my lonesome travels Like a thousand dandelion seeds And I should've come unraveled At the seams like a well-worn sweater But you hold me together My hope should've been shattered Like a bottle out behind some tavern From a fight that you had no chance to win My dream should've been ashes Gone up in smoke like a book of matches Tossed away and never gonna burn again And I should've worn right through Like an old cowboy's boot leather But you hold me together 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 Together, yeah I feel your love surrounding me Strong enough that I can believe There won't ever be a storm that I can't weather No there'll never be a storm that I can't weather I should've been long forgotten Just a footnote down at the bottom Of a page in the book of what could've beens My heart should lie in pieces On the ground like a goodbye letter But you hold me together, oh You hold me together, yeah You hold me together Together, yeah Ooh, you hold me, you hold me Together, oh