Fortress Around Your Heart

Eb (xxx9x-9 xxx8x-8 xxx6x-6 xxx8x-8) It took a day to build the city We walked through the streets in the afternoon F#m9 (xxx9x-9 xxx7x-7 xxx5x-4 xxx7x-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 B7/4(xxx7x-7 xxx5x-5 xxx4x-4 SI7/4) Of walking on the mines I'd laid Em D/F# G Am D And if I built this fortress around your heart Em D/F# G Am D Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire Em D/F# G Am D Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm Cm7 Dm7 Eb7+ 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 B7/4 Of walking on the mines I'd laid Repeat Chorus CIAO CLAUDIO