Fortress Around Your Heart - Sting (Lyrics and Chords)

ARTIST: Sting
TITLE: Fortress Around Your Heart
Lyrics and Chords


[ Fadd9 =  ]

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 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'd once laid
Had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid

/ Gm9 - - - / : / Eb7 - - - / / F#m9 - - - / / / B7 - - - / 

{Refrain}
And if I've built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you with trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire

/ Em D G Am D - - - / / / Cm7 Dm7 Ebmaj7 Fadd9 Gm9 - - - /

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

{Refrain}

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 once played
Had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid

{Refrain}
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