Crumbling towers and beams of yellow light
No flags of truth, no cries of pity
The siege guns have been pounding through the night
It took a day to build the city
We walk through its streets in the afternoon
As I returned across the fields I had known
I recognized the walls that I once laid
Had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I laid
Chorus: And if I built this fortress
Around your heart
It circles you in trenches and barbed wire
And let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on high
Then I went off to fight some battle
That I had invented inside my head
It lasted on for years and years
You probably thought and even wished that I was dead
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 laid
Chorus
The prison has now become your home
A sentence you seem prepared to face
It took a day to build the city
We walk through its streets in the afternoon
As I returned across the fields I had known
I recognized the walls that I once laid
Had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I laid
Chorus