Fortress Around Your Heart

Tom: A

From: * (Jordi-Ken Nakahara)


                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  from the album:
                                            Dream of the Blue Turtles


 Intro:

 Riff #1

 e-10-10-10-8-8-5-5-8-8-|     play this a total of 4 times.
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 G----------------------|
 D----------------------|
 A----------------------|
 E----------------------|


 Part A: play riff #1 throughout the section below.

 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

 E-9-9-9-8-8-6-6-8-8-|       play this a total of 2 times
 B-------------------|
 G-------------------|
 D-------------------|
 A-------------------|
 E-------------------|


 Part B: play riff #2 throughout the section below.

 It took a day to build the city
 We walked through the streets in the afternoon


 Riff #3:

 E-9-9-9-7-7-4-4-7-7-|        play this a total of 4 times.
 B-------------------|
 G-------------------|
 D-------------------|
 A-------------------|
 E-------------------|


 Part C: play riff #3 throughout the section below.

 As I returned across the fields I'd known
 I recognized the walls that I once made
 I had to stop in my tracks for fear
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid


 Chorus:

    Dm          C           Am            C
 And if I built this fortress around your heart

    Dm       C      Am              C
 Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire

    Dm       C       Am             C
 Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm

    Dm     c     Am         c
 And let me set the battlements on fire


 Part D: play riff #1 throughout the section below.

 Then I went off to fight some battle
 That I'd invented inside my head


 Part E: play riff #2 throughout the section below.

 Away so long for years and years
 You probably thought or even wished that I was dead


 Part F: play riff #3 throughout the section below.

 While the armies all are sleeping
 Beneath the tattered flag we made
 I had to stop in my tracks for fear
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid

 Repeat Chorus

 Part G: play riff #1 throughout the section below.

 This prison has now become your home
 A sentence you seem prepared to pay

 Part H: play riff #2 throughout the section below.

 It took a day to build the city
 We walked through it's streets this afternoon

 Part I: play riff #3 throughout the section below.

 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 fear
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid

 Repeat Chorus


 Go back to intro riff.


 Whew! That was harder to explain than I thought. Your comments or
 corrections would be greatly appreciated.


                        Akira Nakahara (using my brother's account)


        Van Halen, and the Rolling Stones,

                                            Thanks.


--
Ken Nakahara
*
Toronto, Canada