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 make yourself a hostage of love

 You turn from me, you turn from the strain
 Devote yourself to the power again
 Distance yourself from what we avowed
 You broke the rules, your my hostage now

 I am a sinner
 I am a saint
 I am a devil
 I am the 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
 Am your herald of sin
 I take you beyond
 Your limits of trust 
 Ransom yourself
 Hostage of love

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

 I've turned my cheek
 And I've suffered the blow 
 The truth of my story 
 Is widely unknown
 Words of derision I have
 Swallowed with a smile
 For telling my story 
 I have been crucified 

 Now like a madman
 I give my laurels to you
 And like a hero
 Forsake my trophies for you
 Though a deciple of this devil
 That is in our blood
 Am I not also
 Your hostage of love?

 You say You've got to live alone
 Though it hurts, You'll make it on your own

 You say you have been born again...

 You will remain a hostage of love