Fortress Around Your Heart-Sting

[00:00.00] 作词 : SUMNER, GORDON(STING) [00:19.86]Under the ruins of a walled city [00:22.38]Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light [00:26.34]No flags of truce, no cries of pity [00:30.45]The siege guns had been pounding all through the night [00:34.53]It took a day to build the city [00:38.28]We walked through its streets in the afternoon [00:42.42]As I returned across the fields I'd known [00:46.38]I recognized the walls that I once laid [00:50.58]I had to stop in my tracks for fear [00:52.92]Of walking on the mines I'd laid [00:58.92]And if I have built this fortress around your heart [01:00.36]Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire [01:06.18]Then let me build a bridge [01:06.69]For I cannot fill the chasm [01:07.68]And let me set the battlements on fire [01:23.43]Then I went off to fight some battle [01:38.13]That I'd invented inside my head [01:40.08]Away so long for years and years [01:46.05]You probably thought or even wished that I was dead [01:50.04]While the armies all are sleeping [01:51.00]Beneath the tattered flag we'd made [01:58.41]I had to stop in my tracks for fear [02:00.30]Of walking on the mines I'd laid [02:50.07]This prison has now become your home [02:53.97]A sentence you seem prepared to pay [02:55.62]It took a day to build the city [03:01.68]We walked through its streets in the afternoon [03:05.91]As I returned across the lands I'd known [03:09.75]I recognized the fields where I'd once played [03:13.80]I had to stop in my tracks for fear [03:16.41]Of walking on the mines I'd laid