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Under the ruins of a walled city |
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Crumbling towers and beams of yellow lights |
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No flags of truce, no cries of pity |
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The siege guns have been pounding through the nights |
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It took a day to build the city |
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We walked through its streets in the afternoon |
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As I returned across the field's I'd known |
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I recognized the walls that I'd once laid |
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Had to stop in my tracks for fear |
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Of walking on the mines I'd laid |
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And if I built this fortress around your heart |
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Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire |
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Then let me build a bridge |
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For I cannot fill the chasm |
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And let me set the battlements on fire |
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Then I went off to fight some battle |
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That I'd invented inside my head |
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Away so long for years and years |
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You probably thought or even wished that I was dead |
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While the armies are all sleeping |
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Beneath the tattered flag we'd made |
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I had to stop my tracks for fear |
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Of walking on the mines I'd laid |
| [02:04.00] |
And if I built this fortress around your heart |
| [02:12.25] |
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire |
| [02:19.91] |
Then let me build a bridge |
| [02:23.63] |
For I cannot fill the chasm |
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And let me set the battlements on fire |
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This prison has now become your home |
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A sentence you seem prepared to pay |
| [02:55.93] |
It took a day to build the city |
| [02:59.57] |
We walked through its streets in the afternoon |
| [03:04.29] |
As I returned across the lands I'd known |
| [03:08.24] |
I recognized the fields where I'd once played |
| [03:12.60] |
Had to stop in my tracks for fear |
| [03:16.20] |
Of walking on the mines I'd laid |
| [03:19.89] |
And if I built this fortress around your heart |
| [03:27.89] |
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire |
| [03:35.84] |
Then let me build a bridge |
| [03:39.50] |
For I cannot fill the chasm |
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And let me set the battlements on fire |
