Sting Fortress Around Your Heart song 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 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 i'd known

i recognized the walls that i once laid

i had to stop in my tracks for fear

of walking on the mines i'd laid

And if i have 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 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'd laid

And if i have 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

i had to stop in my tracks for fear

of walking on the mines i'd laid

And if i have 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