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 as 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 but i know you will go free  you can t see your jailer you can t see the bars 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 surrounds you but in the midst of all this darkness 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 the truth about who you were always meant to be yeah you will go free