[Intro] (warm Rhodes chords and a major-key string pad swell in gently, 8 bars, the breakbeat groove settling in softly before the vocal enters) [Verse 1] The outside of me is wearing thin and torn Every day feels like a battle to be born But something deeper than my body's aching frame Is being renewed and never stays the same [Chorus 1] Held together by a strength I didn't earn By a strength that isn't mine to keep Held together while the outside burns Jesus renews the parts of me I can't see [Verse 2] I don't always look like I'm surviving well The outward cracks are easy ones to tell But inward, quiet, Jesus keeps rebuilding me Turning what looks broken into what will be [Chorus 2 - same lyric as Chorus 1] Held together by a strength I didn't earn By a strength that isn't mine to keep Held together while the outside burns Jesus renews the parts of me I can't see [Instrumental interlude] (warm Rhodes and string pads trade the melody over the rounded sub bass and soft breakbeat groove, 12 bars) [Bridge] What's unseen is what will last What's unseen outweighs the past Light and momentary, this pain I bear Glory that's eternal waiting for me there I don't need to look put-together now I just need Jesus showing me how To let the inward outlast the outward frame Renewed daily, never quite the same [Final Chorus - full repeat, not shortened] Held together by a strength I didn't earn By a strength that isn't mine to keep Held together while the outside burns Jesus renews the parts of me I can't see [Outro] (Rhodes and string pads sustain and slowly brighten, 14 bars, the groove easing but never fully dropping out) Held together, day by day, by You Held together, that's what Jesus renews Held together, even when I can't see Held together, Jesus holds all of me
