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
HAD BEEN POUNDING
THROUGH THE NIGHT
IT TOOK A DAY
TO BUILD THE CITY
WE WALKED
THROUGH ITS STREETS
IN THE AFTERNOON
AS I RETURNED ACROSS
THE FIELDS I'D KNOWN
I RECOGNIZED THE WALLS
THAT I'D ONCE MADE
HAD TO STOP
IN MY TRACKS FOR FEAR
OF WALKING ON
THE MINES I 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 YOUR CHASM
THEN 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
ALL ARE SLEEPING
BENEATH THE TATTERED
FLAG WE'D MADE
I HAD TO STOP
IN MY TRACKS FOR FEAR
OF WALKING ON
THE MINES I 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 LANDS I'D KNOWN
I RECOGNIZED
THE FIELDS WHERE
I'D ONCE PLAYED
HAD TO STOP
IN MY TRACKS FOR FEAR
OF WALKING ON
THE MINES I 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
THEN LET ME
SET THE BATTLEMENTS
ON FIRE