You make yourself a prisoner of menYou blind yourself so you don't have to seenYou turn your life to a power abovenYou make yourself a hostage of lovennYou turn from me, you turn from the strainnDevote yourself to the power againnDistance yourself from all that we vowednYou broke those rules, you're my hostage nownnI am a sinner and I am a saintnI am a devil, I am a ghost at the wakenGod feed the swell and pull of your tears as they breaknI am the limit of the load you can takennYou are the pulley and I am the winchnI am salvation and you're herald of sinnI'll take you beyond your limits of trustnRansom yourself, hostage of lovennYou see we've been born againnSince you've slept there in that lion's den, dennYou can not be savednYou gave your innocence away, ohhnnI've turned my cheek and I've suffered the blownTruth of my story is widely unknownnWord of derision, I have swallowed with a smilenFor telling my story I have been crucifiednnNow like a mad man, I give my laurels to younLike a hero, forsake my trophies for younNo where disciple of this devil that is in the bloodnAm I not also your hostage of love?nnYou see we've all been born againnSince you've slept there in that lion's den, dennYou can not be turnednUntil your innocence is oldnnAnd you seek out to live alonenThough it hurts to make it on your own, ownnYou cannot be savednYou gave your innocence away, ohhnnYou will be made a hostage of lovenHostage of love, hostage of love