Fortress Around Your Heart

Play riff 1 four times as intro.

Verse:
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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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 It took a day to build the city
 We walked through the streets in 
the afternoon
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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

    B7      B7sus  B7        B7sus
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid


        Chorus:

             Em   D        
         And if I built this 
   G    C       D      C    D
fortress around your heart

              Em  D      G        
        Encircled you in trenches 
C          D   C  D
and barbed wire

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             Em     D       G    
        Then let me build a 
   C     D         C         D
bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm

             Eb    F     
        And let me set the 
  Eb    F         G
battlements on fire

        Intro riff 2 times


 Verse:

 Play riff #1 on these two lines

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


 Play riff #2 on these two lines

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


 Play riff #3 for these three lines

 While the armies all are sleeping
 Beneath the tattered flag we made
 I had to stop in my tracks for fear

    B7      B7sus  B7         B7sus
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid

        Repeat Chorus

 Verse:

 Play riff #1 on these two lines

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

 Play riff #2 on these two lines

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

 Play riff #3 on these three lines

 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

    B7      B7sus  B7         B7sus
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid

        Repeat Chorus

 Go back to intro riff.