Fortress Around Your Heart

From: * (Jordi-Ken Nakahara)


                
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  from the
 album:
                                    
        Dream of the Blue Turtles


 Intro:

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 Part A: play riff #1 throughout the
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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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 Part B: play riff #2 throughout the
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 It took a day to build the city
 We walked through the streets in 
the afternoon


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 Part C: play riff #3 throughout the
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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:

    Dm          C           Am   
 And if I built this fortress 
         C
around your heart

    Dm       C      Am      
 Encircled you in trenches and 
        C
barbed wire

    Dm       C       Am          
 Then let me build a bridge, for 
   C
I cannot fill the chasm

    Dm     c     Am         c
 And let me set the battlements on 
fire


 Part D: play riff #1 throughout the
 section below.

 Then I went off to fight some 
battle
 That I'd invented inside my head


 Part E: play riff #2 throughout the
 section below.

 Away so long for years and years
 You probably thought or even wished
 that I was dead


 Part F: play riff #3 throughout the
 section below.

 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

 Part G: play riff #1 throughout the
 section below.

 This prison has now become your 
home
 A sentence you seem prepared to pay

 Part H: play riff #2 throughout the
 section below.

 It took a day to build the city
 We walked through it's streets this
 afternoon

 Part I: play riff #3 throughout the
 section below.

 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.


 Whew! That was harder to explain 
than I thought. Your comments or
 corrections would be greatly 
appreciated.


                        Akira 
Nakahara (using my brother's 
account)


        Van Halen, and the Rolling 
Stones,

                                    
        Thanks.

-- 

Ken Nakahara
*
Toronto, Canada