Sting – Fortress Around Your Heart (Guitar)

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Gm9 (xxxx10-10 xxxx8-8 xxxx6-5 xxxx8-8) 
 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

Eb (xxxx9-9 xxxx8-8 xxxx6-6 xxxx8-8)            
 It took a day to build the city

We walked through the streets in the afternoon

F#m9 (xxxx9-9 xxxx7-7 xxxx5-4 xxxx7-7)          
 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 (xxxx7-7 xxxx5-5 xxxx4-4  SI7/4)           
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid

Chorus:

   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