You make yourself a prisoner of me

You blind yourself so you don't have to see

You turn your life to a power above

You make yourself a hostage of love



You turn from me, you turn from the strain

Devote yourself to the power again

Distance yourself from all that we vowed

You broke those rules, you're my hostage now



I am a sinner and I am a saint

I am a devil, I am a ghost at the wake

God feed the swell and pull of your tears as they break

I am the limit of the load you can take



You are the pulley and I am the winch

I am salvation and you're herald of sin

I'll take you beyond your limits of trust

Ransom yourself, hostage of love



You see we've been born again

Since you've slept there in that lion's den, den

You can not be saved

You gave your innocence away, ohh



I've turned my cheek and I've suffered the blow

Truth of my story is widely unknown

Word of derision, I have swallowed with a smile

For telling my story I have been crucified



Now like a mad man, I give my laurels to you

Like a hero, forsake my trophies for you

No where disciple of this devil that is in the blood

Am I not also your hostage of love?



You see we've all been born again

Since you've slept there in that lion's den, den

You can not be turned

Until your innocence is old



And you seek out to live alone

Though it hurts to make it on your own, own

You cannot be saved

You gave your innocence away, ohh



You will be made a hostage of love

Hostage of love, hostage of love