[00:18.09]Under the ruins of a walled city
[00:22.10]Crumbling towers and beams of yellow lights
[00:26.17]No flags of truce, no cries of pity
[00:30.02]The siege guns have been pounding through the nights
[00:34.01]It took a day to build the city
[00:37.71]We walked through its streets in the afternoon
[00:41.24]As I returned across the field's I'd known
[00:45.54]I recognized the walls that I'd once laid
[00:49.88]Had to stop in my tracks for fear
[00:53.23]Of walking on the mines I'd laid
[00:57.00]And if I built this fortress around your heart
[01:05.32]Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
[01:13.31]Then let me build a bridge
[01:16.52]For I cannot fill the chasm
[01:20.96]And let me set the battlements on fire
[01:32.74]Then I went off to fight some battle
[01:36.56]That I'd invented inside my head
[01:40.65]Away so long for years and years
[01:44.69]You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
[01:48.66]While the armies are all sleeping
[01:52.40]Beneath the tattered flag we'd made
[01:56.49]I had to stop my tracks for fear
[02:00.40]Of walking on the mines I'd laid
[02:04.00]And if I built this fortress around your heart
[02:12.25]Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
[02:19.91]Then let me build a bridge
[02:23.63]For I cannot fill the chasm
[02:27.84]And let me set the battlements on fire
[02:48.18]This prison has now become your home
[02:51.69]A sentence you seem prepared to pay
[02:55.93]It took a day to build the city
[02:59.57]We walked through its streets in the afternoon
[03:04.29]As I returned across the lands I'd known
[03:08.24]I recognized the fields where I'd once played
[03:12.60]Had to stop in my tracks for fear
[03:16.20]Of walking on the mines I'd laid
[03:19.89]And if I built this fortress around your heart
[03:27.89]Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
[03:35.84]Then let me build a bridge
[03:39.50]For I cannot fill the chasm
[03:43.84]And let me set the battlements on fire