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Sting
Fortress Around Your Heart

Song Information
Song Artist(s):Sting
Song Title:Fortress Around Your Heart
Year:1985

Album Information
Album:Fields of Gold (1984-1994)
Track:5

Track Classification
Genre:Rock 1980s
MusicBrainz Genre:Rock

Audio
20 sec. sample

Lyrics
Original Source:LyricWiki
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
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

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

Track Information
Published Time:4:36
Measured Time:4:36
Traktor Peak dB:-1.784
Traktor Perceived dB: 0.119

Mix Information
Mixmeister BPM:120.3
Traktor BPM: 120.3 (100.0%)
Mixmeister Key:G m

External Cross-Referencing
MusicBrainz PUID:96ccde4a-2e62-81bf-bae9-a79c0bcf8d32

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Song Artist:Sting
Song Title:Fortress Around Your Heart
First Release Year:1985

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