Key: D
Introduction: D Gm D Gm D F#m7(b5) B7(9)
E7(9) Bm7(b5) A7(13) A7
Alone from night to night you'll find me
D7M D D6 F#m Bb9
Too weak to break the chains that bind me
Em G/B A7/6 Eº
I need no shackles to remind me
Bm Bm7(b5) Em7 G/B A7
I'm just a prisoner of love
E7(9) Bm7(9) A7(13) A7
For one command I stand and wait now
D7M D D6 F#m Bb9
From one who's master of my fate now
Em G/B A7(13) Eº
I can't escape, for it's too late now
D Gm D
I'm just a prisoner of love
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F#m C#m7(b5)
What's the good of my caring
F#m C#7 F#m B9 F#m C#7
If someone is sharing those arms with me
F#m C#m7(b5)
Although she has another
F#m C#7 F# C#7 A7
I can't have another, for I'm not free
E7(9) Bm7(b5) A7(13) A7
She's in my dreams, awake or sleeping
D7M D D6 F#m Bb9
Upon my knees to her I'm creeping
Em G/B A7(13) Eº
My very life is in her keeping
D Gm D
I'm just a prisoner of love
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