Fortress Around Your Heart Lyrics

Play riff 1 four times as intro.
Verse:
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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 have been pounding all through the night
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It took a day to build the city
We walked through the streets in the afternoon
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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
Chorus:
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
Intro riff 2 times
Verse:
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Then I went off to fight some battle
That I'd invented inside my head
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Away so long for years and years
You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
Play riff #3 for these three lines
While the armies all are sleeping
Beneath the tattered flag we made
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid
Repeat Chorus
Verse:
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This prison has now become your home
A sentence you seem prepared to pay
Play riff #2 on these two lines
It took a day to build the city
We walked through it's streets this afternoon
Play riff #3 on these three lines
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 fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid
Repeat Chorus
Go back to intro riff.