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Fortress Around Your Heart

In the style of

Sting

Lyrics

under the ruins
of a walled city
crumbling towers
in beams of
yellow light

no flags of truce
no cries of pity
the siege guns
had been pounding
through the night

it took a day
to build the city
we walked
through its streets
in the afternoon

as i returned across
the fields i'd known
i recognized the walls
that i'd once made

had to stop
in my tracks for fear
of walking on
the mines i laid and
if i built this fortress
around your heart

encircled you
in trenches
and barbed wire

then let me
build a bridge
for i cannot
fill your chasm
then let me
set the battlements
on fire

then i went off
to fight some battle
that i'd invented
inside my head

away so long
for years and years
you probably thought
or even wished
that i was dead

while the armies
all are sleeping
beneath the tattered
flag we'd made

i had to stop
in my tracks for fear
of walking on
the mines i laid and
if i built this fortress
around your heart

encircled you
in trenches
and barbed wire

then let me
build a bridge
for i cannot
fill the chasm
and let me
set the battlements
on fire

this prison has now
become your home
a sentence you seem
prepared to pay

it took a day
to build the city
we walked
through its streets
in the afternoon

as i returned across
the lands i'd known
i recognized
the fields where
i'd once played

had to stop
in my tracks for fear
of walking on
the mines i laid and
if i built this fortress
around your heart

encircled you
in trenches
and barbed wire

then let me
build a bridge
for i cannot
fill the chasm
then let me
set the battlements
on fire

Details

  • Duration : 4:43
  • Key : Gm
  • Genre : Rock
  • Year released : 1985
  • Language : English

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