Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart

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 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
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 that tattered flag we'd 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

The 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 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

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sting
• Fortress
• Around
• Your
• Heart

[cewduncan]

A wonderful post, my friend

[ann6079]

Thanks, Beth! You rock!!

[DejaVuSu]

I adore STING......and this vid.

Loved the images and the way you worked them. Really, really cool. xo ;) 5*

[ann6079]

Thanks, Dear! :)

Really appreciate your support!

Love & hugs from MeeeeeeMeeeeeeMeeeeeee ;)

[Billandhis12string]

Undoubtedly one of Stings best songs. I never hear this on the radio - what a pity. This song has so much meaning!

[TrybalQT]

tHIS IS ONE OF THE BEST VERSIONS OF THIS CLASSICS i'VE HEARD YET! THANX 4 THE GREAT POST!

[bostonbobbyj]

One of Sting and the Police best!

[MegaPoone]

What a brilliant song, lovely chord changes a fantastic segue into the chorus and one cool double back into the main melody line. Sting is one ubertalented motherfucker.

[lyonslaforet]

@Billandhis12string I agree with you. I've always favored this song to the more celebrated If You Love Somebody Set Them Free.

[jeffthrow6892]

@dkthg -- Nice........

[jeffthrow6892]

@dkthg -- Sorry.......I was just funnin' with ya there too!

[dkthg]

@jeffthrow6892 HELL no! I learned my lesson the first time! I dropped my pet hamster down there a month ago and i havent seen him since! Oh Lemiwinks, i miss you SO much.....

[jeffthrow6892]

@dkthg --- Wow........did you really think that was a picture of me???? LOL.......now you got me laughing my ass off..........Maybe you should put a weasel between that cleavage of yours.........lol !!

[dkthg]

@jeffthrow6892 You're so handsome, why do you shave with a weasel?

[dkthg]

@jeffthrow6892 LOL! Sorry JEFF; i didn't mean to THROW you off! I'm just funnin with ya!