專輯:25 週年史詩精選
(The Best Of 25 Years)
歌曲:
Fortress Around Your Heart
(2011 Remix)
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 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
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 track
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