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STING lyrics : "Fortress Around Your Heart"


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 its 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 its 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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