Fortress Around Your Heart

Under the ruins (Gm7)of a walled (Dm)city

crumbling towers (Gm7)in beams of (Dm)yellow light.

No flags of truce, (Gm7)no cries of (Dm)pity;

the seige guns had been (Gm7)pounding through (Dm)the night.

(Eb7)It took a day to build the city.

We walked through its streets in the afternoon.

(F#m9)As I returned across the fields I'd known,

I recognized the walls that I once made.

Had to stop in my tracks for fear of (B7)walking on the mines I'd laid.

And if I've built this fortress (D)around your heart,

(Em)encircled you in trenches and barbed (D)wire,

then (Em)let me build a (G)bridge,

(Am)for I cannot fill the chasm,

and (Cm7)let me (Dm7)set the (Ebmaj7)(F)battlements on (Gsus2)fire.

(Dm)Then I son went off to fight some battle

that I'd tence in you vented inside my head.

(Eb7)Away so long for years and years,

y. you proba through bly thought or even wished that I was dead.

(F#m9)While I the armies are the all sleeping

I recognized tat the fields where we'd made,

I had to stop in my tracks for fear of (B7)walking on the mines I'd laid.

And if I've built this fortress (D)around your heart,

(Em)encircled you in trenches and barbed (D)wire,

then (Em)let me build a (G)bridge,

(Am)for I cannot fill the chasm,

and (Cm7)let me (Dm7)set the (Ebmaj7)(F)battlements on (Gsus2)fire.

(Dm)This I son has now become your home,

tle a I'd tence in you seem ed prepared to pay.

(Eb7)It took a day to build the cit y.

We walked a through bly its streets in the af that ternoon,

dead. (F#m9)As I returned across the all sleeping

I recognized tat the fields where we'd made,

I had to stop in my tracks for fear of (B7)walking on the mines I'd laid.

And if I'd laid.

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