| "Hostage Of Love" | ||||
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| Single by Razorlight | ||||
| from the album Slipway Fires | ||||
| A-side | "Hostage Of Love" | |||
| Released | 12 January 2009 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Borrell/Burrows | |||
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"Hostage of Love" is the second single from Razorlight's third studio album, Slipway Fires, released on 12 January 2009.
The song featured biblical imagery running throughout the song, as during the songwriting process for Slipway Fires, Borrell was said to have been "learning a bit about Catholicism [and] was very interested in the concept that we’re ordinary sinners."
The music video is in black and white and depicts the band playing the song in a studio, though an alternative version has more recently appeared, with scenes evoking the religious themes mentioned above and also showing band travelling on the Paris Métro, ending at the station Boissière, whose name originates from the custom of remembering the crucifixion by hanging up boxwood on Palm Sunday.