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