Fortress Around Your Heart – STING

Bm9 (xxxx10-10 xxxx8-8 xxxx6-5 xxxx8-8)
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

Fb (xxxx9-9 xxxx8-8 xxxx6-6 xxxx8-8)
It took a day to build the city
We walked through the streets in the afternoon

C#m9 (xxxx9-9 xxxx7-7 xxxx5-4 xxxx7-7)
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

G7/4 (xxxx7-7 xxxx5-5 xxxx4-4 SI7/4)
Of walking on the mines I'd laid

Chorus:
 Anfd if I b[B/Cm]uilt this fBortrefss arouBnd your heart
 Enfcircled [B/Cm]you in trenBches fand barBbed wire
 Thfen let m[B/Cm]e build a bBridgef, for IB cannot fill the chasm
 Andf7 let me b7set the Fb7+battleCments on fire

b9 Then I went off to fight some battle
That I'd invented inside my head

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

cis9 While the armies all are sleeping
Beneath the tattered flag we made
I had to stop in my tracks for fear

G7/4 Of walking on the mines I'd laid

Repeat Chorus

b9 This prison has now become your home
A sentence you seem prepared to pay

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

cis9 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

G7/4 Of walking on the mines I'd laid

Repeat Chorus

CIAO
CLAUDIO