There's a new strange
Godless demon awake, inside me
There's a force divine
Terrorizing the angels I keep
While we dream

Prayers (prayers)
Lay on the line (lay on the line)
You'll never be free (you'll never be free)
You'll never be free (you'll never be free)
(Free, free, free)

I'm a true slave
To the fire and the air around you
While this curse divine
It's slowly rotting away, inside me
While we dream

Prayers (prayers)
Lay on the line (lay on the line)
You'll never be free (you'll never be free)
You'll never be free
Triangles (triangles)
Placed in your mind (placed in your mind)
You'll never be free
You'll never be free

Beware
Beware
Beware
Beware

I will never walk this street again
The only time I feel I'm not alone
I pull my heart out, I wave it in the air

Prayers (prayers)
Laid on the line (lay on the line)
You'll never be free (you'll never be free)
You'll never be free
Triangles (triangles)
Placed in your mind (placed in your mind)
You'll never be free
You'll never be free
Prayers (prayers)
Triangles (triangles)
Laid on the line (lay on the line)
You'll never be free, you'll never be free

I will never walk this street again
The only time I feel I'm not alone
I pull my heart out, I wave it in the air
I pull my heart out, I wave it in the air


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Prayers/Triangles Lyrics as written by Sergio Vega Stephen Carpenter

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    My idea of this song is that it's about someone that doesn't love himself but finds love in someone else and how he would be a slave to that love even tho his self hatred is slowly rotting him away. That unlovingness towards himself will never let him be free and the love he keeps ends up Leaving him because he can't love himself. he never wants to fall in love again because no one sees how big of a heart he has even when he shows it so much.

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