Sting Lyrics

Album: Best Of-Fields Of Gold

Fortress Around Your Heart Lyrics

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