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Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart lyrics, song lyrics, hit lyrics, top lyrics, hollywood lyrics, line by line lyrics, a - z lyrics, songs, tracks, music, music albums | ||||||||||
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 fields Id known I recognized the walls that I once made I had to stop in my tracks for fear Of walking on the mines Id 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 Id 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 wed made I had to stop in my track for fear Of walking on the mines Id 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 Id once played I had to stop in my tracks for fear Of walking on the mines Id 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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