STING - Fortress Around Your Heart lyrics

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Under the ruins of a walled city<br>Crumbling towers and beams of yellow light<br>No flags of truce, no cries of pity<br>The siege guns had been pounding all through the night<br>It took a day to build the city<br>We walked through it's streets in the afternoon<br>As I returned across the field's I'd known<br>I recognized the walls that I once made<br>I had to stop in my tracks for fear<br>Of walking on the mines I'd laid<br><br>And if I built this fortress around your heart<br>Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire<br>Then let me build a bridge<br>For I cannot fill the chasm<br>And let me set the battlements on fire<br><br>Then I went off to fight some battle<br>That I'd invented inside my head<br>Away so long for years and years<br>You probably thought or even wished that I was dead<br>While the armies are all sleeping<br>Beneath the tattered flag we'd made<br>I had to stop in my track for fear<br>Of walking on the mines I'd laid<br><br>And if I built this fortress around your heart<br>Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire<br>Then let me build a bridge<br>For I cannot fill the chasm<br>And let me set the battlements on fire<br><br>This prison has now become your home<br>A sentence you seem prepared to pay<br>It took a day to build the city<br>We walked through it's streets in the afternoon<br>As I returned across the fields where I'd once played<br>I had to stop in my tracks for fear<br>Of walking on the mines I'd laid<br><br>And if I built this fortress around your heart<br>Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire<br>Then let me build a bridge<br>For I cannot fill the chasm<br>And let me set the battlements on fire