Fortress Around Your Heart Lyrics - The Dream Of The Blue Turtles - Sting

Under the ruins of a walled city 

Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light 

No flags of truce, no prize 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 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 battlement on fire 

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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 laid 

And if I've 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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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 recognised the fields where I'd once played 

I had to stop in my tracks for fear 

Of walking on the mined I'd laid 

And if I've 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