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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 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
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
Songinformatie
Artiest | Sting |
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| A-kant |
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Titel |
Fortress Around Your Heart |
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Lengte |
4:48
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Componist(en) |
Sting
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Producer(s) |
Sting & Pete Smith
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| B-kant |
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Titel |
Shadows In The Rain
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Lengte |
4:48
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Componist(en) |
Sting
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Producer(s) |
Sting & Pete Smith
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Platenlabel |
A&M
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Catalogusnr |
390 081-7
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Hoogste positie UK |
49
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Hoogste positie US |
8
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Album |
The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
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