Intro:
Riff #1
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Part A: play riff #1 throughout the section below.
Under the ruins of a walled city
Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light
No flags of truce, no cries of pity
The siege guns have been pounding all through the night
Riff #2
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Part B: play riff #2 throughout the section below.
It took a day to build the city
We walked through the streets in the afternoon
Riff #3:
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Part C: play riff #3 throughout the section below.
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
Of walking on the mines I'd laid
Chorus:
Dm C Am C
And if I built this fortress around your heart
Dm C Am C
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Dm C Am C
Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm
Dm c Am c
And let me set the battlements on fire
Part D: play riff #1 throughout the section below.
Then I went off to fight some battle
That I'd invented inside my head
Part E: play riff #2 throughout the section below.
Away so long for years and years
You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
Part F: play riff #3 throughout the section below.
While the armies all are sleeping
Beneath the tattered flag we made
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid
Repeat Chorus
Part G: play riff #1 throughout the section below.
This prison has now become your home
A sentence you seem prepared to pay
Part H: play riff #2 throughout the section below.
It took a day to build the city
We walked through it's streets this afternoon
Part I: play riff #3 throughout the section below.
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
Of walking on the mines I'd laid
Repeat Chorus
Go back to intro riff.