| You make yourself a prisoner of me You blind yourself so you don’t have to see
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| You turn your life to a power above
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| You make yourself a hostage of love
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| You turn from me, you turn from the strain
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| Devote yourself to the power again
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| Distance yourself from all that we vowed
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| You broke those rules, you’re my hostage now
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| I am a sinner and I am a saint
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| I am a devil, I am a ghost at the wake
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| God feed the swell and pull of your tears as they break
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| I am the limit of the load you can take
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| You are the pulley and I am the winch
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| I am salvation and you’re herald of sin
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| I’ll take you beyond your limits of trust
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| Ransom yourself, hostage of love
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| You see we’ve been born again
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| Since you’ve slept there in that lion’s den, den
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| You can not be saved
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| You gave your innocence away, ohh
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| I’ve turned my cheek and I’ve suffered the blow
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| Truth of my story is widely unknown
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| Word of derision, I have swallowed with a smile
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| For telling my story I have been crucified
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| Now like a mad man, I give my laurels to you
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| Like a hero, forsake my trophies for you
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| No where disciple of this devil that is in the blood
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| Am I not also your hostage of love?
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| You see we’ve all been born again
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| Since you’ve slept there in that lion’s den, den
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| You can not be turned
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| Until your innocence is old
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| And you seek out to live alone
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| Though it hurts to make it on your own, own
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| You cannot be saved
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| You gave your innocence away, ohh
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| You will be made a hostage of love
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| Hostage of love, hostage of love |