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 Field's 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
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 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