Fortress Around Your Heart
Sting
NOTES: - I transcribed this from Rick Beato’s playing in his video "LADY GAGA "Shallow" LAWSUIT | Why This Will Keep Happening" timestamp 9:23 - G = 3x0003 - C = 335553 - Cm7 = 335343 - Eb = 365343 Riff #1 e|--10----10--10----10----10----10----10----10--| B|--10----10--13----13----10----10----13----13--| G|--12----12--12----12----10----10----12----12--| D|--12----12--10----10----10----10----10----10--| A|------------------------13----13--------------| E|----------------------------------------------| Riff #2 e|--9----9--8----8----6----6----8----8--| B|--8----8--9----9----8----8----9----9--| G|--6----6--8----8----6----6----8----8--| D|--------------------------------------| A|--------------------------------------| E|--------------------------------------| Riff #3 (same shapes from #1 but one fret back) e|--9----9--9----9----9----9----9----9--| B|--9----9--12---12---9----9----12---12-| G|--11---11-11---11---9----9----11---11-| D|--11---11-9----9----9----9----9----9--| A|--------------------12---12-----------| E|--------------------------------------| Riff #4 (similar shapes to #2) e|--5----5--4----4----2----2----5----5--| B|--4----4--5----5----4----4----4----4--| G|--2----2--4----4----2----2----4----4--| D|--------------------------------------| A|--------------------------------------| E|--------------------------------------| [Intro] Riff #1 x4 [Verse] (Riff #1) Under the ruins of a walled city Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light No flags of truce no cries of pity The siege guns have been pounding all through the night (Riff #2) It took a day to build the city We walked through the streets in the afternoon (Riff #3) As I returned across the fields I’d known I recognized the walls that I once laid I had to stop in my tracks for fear (Riff #4) Of walking on the mines I’d laid [Chorus] 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 Riff #1 x2 [Verse] (Riff #1) Then I went off to fight some battle That I’d invented inside my head (Riff #2) Away so long for years and years You probably thought or even wished that I was dead (Riff #3) While the armies all are sleeping Beneath the tattered flag we made I had to stop in my tracks for fear (Riff #4) Of walking on the mines I’d laid [Chorus] 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 Riff #1 x2 [Verse] (Riff #1) This prison has now become your home A sentence you seem prepared to pay (Riff #2) It took a day to build the city We walked through the streets in the afternoon (Riff #3) As I returned across the lands I’d known I recognized the fields where I’d once played I had to stop in my tracks for fear (Riff #4) Of walking on the mines I’d laid [Chorus] 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 [Outro] Riff #1 Thanks Rick Beato
