You Hold Me Together

(Brett Beavers, Dierks Bentley & Tony Martin) Capo: 2nd Fret or scaled down a full step to E DD G G INTRO: Woo yeah, oh D By now I shoulda been broken on the rocks of rising life's ocean G Just another ship lost at sea D By now I shoulda been scattered in the wind of my lonesome travels G Like a thousand dandelion seeds Bm A G And I shoulda come un-raveled at the seams like a well worn sweater D But you hold me to-gether D My hope shoulda been shattered like a bottle out behind some tavern G From a fight that you had no chance to win D My dreams shoulda been ashes gone up in smoke like a book of matches G Tossed away and never gonna burn again Bm A G And I shoulda worn right through like an old cowboy's boot leather D But you hold me to-gether CHORUS #1: A G D I feel your love surrounding me A G D Strong e-nough that I can believe A G A G There won't ever be a storm that I can't weather Em D 'Cause you hold me to-gether, ah woo Em D To-gether, yeah yeah CHORUS #2 A G D I feel your love surrounding me A G D Strong e-nough that I can believe A Bm A G There won't ever be a storm that I can't weather Bm A G No, there never be a storm that I can't weather D I shoulda been long forgotten just a footnote down at the bottom G Of a page in the book of what coulda been's Bm A G My heart should lie in pieces on the ground like a goodbye letter Em D But you hold me to-gether G D G Oh oh, you hold me to-gether, yeah yeah Em D You hold me to-gether, ah woo Em D To-gether, yeah yeah Em D Oh oh, you hold me, you hold me Em D To-gether, oh oh