You've been a prisoner, baby,
Been a prisoner all your life,
Held captive in an alien world where they hold your need for love to your throat, like a knife,
And they make you jump,
And they make you do tricks,
They take what started off such an innocent heart, and they break it, and break it, and break it until it almost can't be fixed.

Well, I don't know when and I don't know how,
I don't know how long it's gonna take,
I don't know how hard it will be, but I know you will go free.

Now you can call it the devil, call it the big lie,
Call it a fallen world, whatever it is, it ruins almost everything we try,
It's the sins of the fathers, yeah, and it's the choices we make,
It's people screaming without making a sound, from prison cells in paradise where we're chained to our mistakes.

And I don't know when, and I don't know how,
I don't know how much it's gonna cost you, probably everything,
I know you will go free.

You can't see a jailer, you can't see the bar,
You can't turn your head around fast enough, but it's everywhere you are,
It's all around you,
Everywhere you walk, these prison walls surround you.

But in the midst of all this darkness, yeah, in the middle of this night,
I see the truth cut through this curtain like a laser, like a pure and holy light,
And I know I can't touch you now, yeah, and I don't want to speak too soon,
But when we get sprung from out these cages, baby, God knows what we might do.

But I don't know when and I don't know how, yeah,
I don't know if you'll be leaving alone or you'll be leaving with me,
But I know you will go free,
I know the truth will set you free,
The truth about who you are,
Truth about who you were always meant to be,
Yeah,
You will go free.