EmD/F#GAmD
And if I built this fortress around your heart
EmD/F#GAmD
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
EmD/F#GAmD
Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm
Cm7Dm7Eb7+F
And let me set the battlements on fire
Gm9
Then I went off to fight some battle
That I'd invented inside my head
Eb
Away so long for years and years
You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
F#m9
While the armies all are sleeping
Beneath the tattered flag we made
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
B7/4
Of walking on the mines I'd laid
Repeat Chorus
Gm9
This prison has now become your home
A sentence you seem prepared to pay
Eb
It took a day to build the city
We walked through it's streets this afternoon
F#m9
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