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
And 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've owed
You broke [bad word]  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
I 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 your herald of sin
I take you beyond your limits of [bad word] Ransom yourself, hostage of love

You say you have been born again
Since you slept there in that liar's den, den
You cannot be saved, you gave your innocence away
Oh oh

I've turned my cheek and I've suffered the blow [bad word] of my story is widely unknown
Words of derision I have swallowed with a smile
For telling my story I've been [bad word] 
Now like a madman I give my laurels to you
Like a hero forsake my trophies for you
Though a disciple of this devil that is in our blood
I not also your hostage of love?

You say you have been born again
Since you slept there in that liar's den, den
You cannot return until your innocence is earned

And you say you've got to live alone
Though it hurts, you'll make it on your own, own
You cannot be saved, you gave your innocence away
Oh oh

Hostage of love
Hostage of love
Hostage of love