Answer:
I must be broken before you can use me.
I start in little but I end in full you'll find me in half and complete.
What building has the most stories?
A young man wants to have me but when he has me he no longer wants me. Blade in hand he attacks me and does his best to remove me. Yet he knows that it is all in vain.
I hold two meanings. With one I may be broken with the other I hold on.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.