Fortress Around Your Heart Chords by Sting

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_ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ Under the ruins [Dm] of a [Cm] walled city [Dm] _ [Cm] Crumbling towers [F] and beams of [C] yellow light
[Dm] No [Cm] flags of truth, [Bb] no cries of [Cm] pity _ [Dm] _ [C] Siege guns [F] have been pummeled through [C] the
night [Db] It [Ab] took a day [Eb] to build the [Ab] city
[Bbm] We [Ab] walked through its [Eb] streets in the [Ab] afternoon _ [Dbm] As [B] I returned [A] across the fields [Ab] I'd known
[Dbm] I [B] recognized [E] the walls that I'd [B] once made [Gbm] _ [B] Had to stop [E] in my tracks [B] for fear
Of [E] walking on the mines _ [Em] I'd built
[D] I built [G] this wall [Am] just [D] around your heart
_ _ _ [Em] This little [D]
few [G] will preach [Am] eternal love [D] Let _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [D] me build [G] a bridge, [Am] or a [D] castle
_ _ _ Let [C] _ [Dm] me set [Eb] the _ [F] battlements [G] on _ fire
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] Then [Cm] I went [Bb] off to fight some [C] battle [Dm] That [C] I'd invented [F] inside [C] my [Db] head
[Ab] Wasted on [Eb] for years and [Ab] years [Db] You [Ab] probably thought or [Eb] even wished that I [Ab] was dead
[Db] _ [Bm] While the armies [E] of our [B] arsenal _ [Db] _ [B] Beneath the [Dbm] tattered flag [B] we'd [Db] made
[E] I had to stop in my tracks [Bm] for fear [B] Of walking on the mines [E] I'd [Em] laid
I [D]
built [G] this wall [Am] just _ [D] around your heart _ _ [Em] This little [D]
few [G] will preach [Am] eternal _ [D] love
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] Let [D] me build [G] a bridge, [Am] _ or a [D] _
castle _ _ _ _ [Cm] Let [Dm] me set [Eb] the _ [F] battlements [G] on _ _
[Gm] _ fire
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] These [C] prisons [F] now become [Bb] your [Cm] home [D] _ [C] Sentence you seem [Dm] prepared to [C] pay
[Db] _ [Ab] It took a day [Eb] to build the [Ab] city [G] We [Ab] walked through its [Eb] streets in the [Ab] afternoon
_ [Db] As [Bm] I returned [A] across the lands [Ab] I'd known [Gbm] I [Bm] recognized [A] the fields where I'd [B] once [Db] played
[Bm] Had to stop [A] in my tracks [B] for fear Of [E] walking on [B] the mines _ [Em] I'd laid
If [D] I built [G] this wall [Am] just [D] around your heart _ _ _ [Em] This little [D]
few [G] will preach [Am] eternal _ [D] love
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] Let [D] _
_ [G] me build a bridge, [Am] _ or [D] a castle _ _ _ [Cm] Let [Dm] me set [Eb] the _ [F] battlements [Gm] on fire
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