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
It's streets
In the afternoon
As I returned across
The fields
I'd known
I recognized the
Walls that I
Once made
Had to stop
In my tracks
For fear of walking
On the mines
I'd laid
And if I've built this
Fortress
Around your heart
Encircles 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
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
My tracks
For fear of walking
On the mines
I'd laid
And if I've built this
Fortress
Around your heart
Encircles 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
It's streets
In the afternoon
As I returned across
The lands I'd known
I recognized
The fields where I
Once played
I had to stop
In my tracks for
Fear of walking on
The mines I'd laid
And if I've built this
Fortress
Around your heart
Encircles 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