Текст песни Fortress Around Your Heart, Sting
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Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light No flags of truce no cries of pity The siege guns had been pounding all 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 laid I had to stop in my tracks for fear Of walking on the mines I d laid And if I have 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 d made I had to stop in my tracks for fear Of walking on the mines I d laid 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 recognized the fields where I d once played I had to stop in my tracks for fear Of walking on the mines I d laid |