Lyrics - Fortress Around Your Heart by Sting

Under the ruins of a walled city
Crumbling towers and beams of yellow light
No flags of truce, no cries of pity
The siege guns had been pounding all through the night
It took a day to build the city
We walked through it’s streets in the afternoon
As
I returned across the field’s
I’d known
I recognized the walls that
I once made
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines
I’d 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
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 are all sleeping
Beneath the tattered flag we’d made
I had to stop in my track for fear
Of walking on the mines
I’d 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 it’s streets in the afternoon
As
I returned across the fields where
I’d once played
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines
I’d 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

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