Fortress Around Your Heart (2011 Remix)
Sting"Fortress Around Your Heart (2011 Remix)" is a song by Sting, released in 2011 in the Pop genre. The song is 3:46 long and contains 44 lines and 315 words.
0:00Fortress Around Your Heart - Sting
0:19Under the ruins of a walled city
0:23Crumbling towers and beams of yellow light
0:27No flags of truce no cries of pity
0:30The siege guns had been pounding
0:32All through the night
0:35It took a day to build the city
0:38We walked through its streets in the afternoon
0:43As I returned across the fields I'd known
0:46I recognized the walls that I once made
0:50I had to stop in my tracks for fear
0:54Of walking on the mines I'd laid
0:57And if I built this fortress around your heart
1:06Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
1:14Then let me build a bridge
1:18For I cannot fill the chasm
1:22And let me set the battlements on fire
1:34Then I went off to fight some battle
1:38That I'd invented inside my head
1:42Away so long for years and years
1:46You probably thought or even
1:48Wished that I was dead
1:50While the armies are all sleeping
1:54Beneath the tattered flag wed made
1:58I had to stop in my track for fear
2:02Of walking on the mines I'd laid
2:05And if I built this fortress around your heart
2:14Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
2:22Then let me build a bridge
2:25For I cannot fill the chasm
2:30And let me set the battlements on fire
2:50This prison has now become your home
2:54A sentence you seem prepared to pay
2:58It took a day to build the city
3:02We walked through its streets in the afternoon
3:06As I returned across the lands I'd known
3:10I recognized the fields where I'd once played
3:14I had to stop in my tracks for fear
3:18Of walking on the mines I'd laid
3:21And if I built this fortress around your heart
3:29Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
3:38Then let me build a bridge
3:41For I cannot fill the chasm
3:46And let me set the battlements on fire
Fortress Around Your Heart - Sting 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 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 wed 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 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 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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