Gm9 (xxxx10-10 xxxx8-8 xxxx6-5 xxxx8-8)
Under the ruins of a walled city
Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light
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
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
B7/4
Of walking on the mines I'd laid
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
B7/4
Of walking on the mines I'd laid
