Fortress Around Your Heart – STING (xxxx10-10 xxxx8-8 xxxx6-5 xxxx8-8) 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 (xxxx9-9 xxxx8-8 xxxx6-6 xxxx8-8) It took a day to build the city We walked through the streets in the afternoon (xxxx9-9 xxxx7-7 xxxx5-4 xxxx7-7) 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 /4 (xxxx7-7 xxxx5-5 xxxx4-4 SI7/4) 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 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 made I had to stop in my tracks for fear /4 Of walking on the mines I'd laid Repeat Chorus 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 it's streets this 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 fear /4 Of walking on the mines I'd laid Repeat Chorus CIAO CLAUDIO