[00:18.729]Under the ruins of a walled city
[00:22.729]Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light
[00:26.680]No flags of truce
[00:27.780]no cries of pity
[00:30.530]The siege guns had been
[00:31.831]pounding through the night
[00:34.493]It took a day to build the city
[00:38.493]We walked through it's streets in the afternoon
[00:42.593]As I returned across the fields I'd known
[00:46.493]I recognized the walls that I'd once made
[00:50.493]Had to stop in my tracks for fear
[00:53.775]Of walking on the mines I'd laid
[00:57.275]And if I built this
[00:59.775]fortress around your heart
[01:06.25]Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
[01:13.977]Then let me build a bridge
[01:17.460]for I cannot fill the chasm
[01:22.126]And let me set the battlements on fire
[01:34.436]Then I went off to fight some battle
[01:38.336]That I'd invented inside my head
[01:42.135]Away so long,for years and years
[01:46.224]You probably thought or even
[01:47.674]wished that I was dead
[01:50.324]While the armies are all sleeping
[01:54.325]Beneath the tattered flag we'd made
[01:58.399]Had to stop in my tracks for fear
[02:01.797]Of walking on the mines I'd laid
[02:05.47]And if I built this fortress around your heart
[02:13.747]Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
[02:21.748]Then let me build a bridge
[02:24.846]for I cannot fill the chasm
[02:29.876]And let me set the battlements on fire
[02:50.229]The prison has now become your home
[02:53.929]A sentence you seem prepared to pay
[02:58.94]It took a day to build the city
[03:01.894]We walked through it's streets in the afternoon
[03:05.603]As I returned across the lands I'd known
[03:09.794]I recognized the fields where
[03:11.894]I'd once played
[03:13.717]Had to stop in my tracks for fear
[03:17.384]Of walking on the mines I'd laid
[03:20.634]And if I built this fortress around your heart
[03:29.385]Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
[03:37.386]Then let me build a bridge
[03:40.644]for I cannot fill the chasm
[03:45.274]And let me set the battlements on fire