(Please add a link to the original lyrics, or at least provide several lines around this. Otherwise, no one can tell if is really the object of , since lyrics usually have no punctuation marks.)
This is indeed the object of placed _after_ the verb. It's semantically the same as , but looks more dramatic and poetic.
This is a common rhetorical device called . Similar things happen also in English, but this is more common in the Japanese language because it does not rely much on the word order thanks to the particles.
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