Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart (2011 Remix)

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 recognised 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`ve 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
And if I`ve 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
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 recognised the fields where I`d once played
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I`d laid
And if I`ve 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
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 recognised 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`ve 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
And if I`ve 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
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 recognised the fields where I`d once played
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I`d laid
And if I`ve 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
Brice Woodall- Sting cover- Fortress Around Your Heart

Sting cover. Mine is slower with a slightly different arrangement. I love this Sting tune so I gave it a go. Good job Sting.

Fortress Around Your Heart (lyrics)

Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart from Dream of the Blue Turtle 1985. Fan lyrics video I do not own rights for this wonderful song!!! Pictures: Belgrade fortress ...

Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart (1985 7" vinyl)

for the underwear wolf... Dude was always a bit of a wanker, but has written a lot of great songs (most of them with The Police); one of the great solo songs ...

Casey Cortez Fortress around your Heart Drum Remix

All vocals (27 overdubs) recorded by Casey Cortez. Video and drum remix by BillreedCreative.com.

Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart

Last track from his first solo album "The Dream of The Blue Turtles" (1985)

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