Fortress around your heart (25 years)

Under the ruins of a walled city Crumbling towers and beams of yellow light No flags of truce, no cries of pity The siege guns had been pounding all 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'd once 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
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 the 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

This 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'd 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