Capo 7th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

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 avowed

You broke those rules, you’re my hostage now

Repeat Intro

 I sinner

And I am a saint

 I 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

And 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, (Den)

 You cannot be saved

 You gave your innocence away

Ohhhhh

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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

Like a hero

Forsake my trophies for you

Though a disciple of this devil

That is in our blood

Am I not also

Your hostage of love?

You say you will be 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

Ohhhhhh

You will remain a hostage of love

 Hostage of love

 Hostage of love