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| <b>Producer(s):</b>
 
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| [[Sting (person) | Sting]] & Pete Smith
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| [[Sting (person) | Sting]] & [[Pete Smith]]
 
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=About the song=
 
=About the song=
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[[Sting]] played bass on this songs as he was writing it in the studio - and recorded the bass line straightaway.
  
 
=Personnel=
 
=Personnel=
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| Catalog no.
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| AM 2767
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| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Consider Me Gone]]" (live)
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| [[1985-MM-DD]]
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| Canada
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| AM 286
 
| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Shadows In The Rain (Sting song)|Shadows In The Rain]]"  
 
| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Shadows In The Rain (Sting song)|Shadows In The Rain]]"  
 
| [[1985-10-11]]
 
| [[1985-10-11]]
 
| UK
 
| UK
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| AM 286
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| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Shadows In The Rain (Sting song)|Shadows In The Rain]]" + bonus single "[[If You Love Somebody Set Them Free]]" / "[[Another Day]]"
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| [[1985-10-11]]
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| UK
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| AM 390 081-7
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| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Shadows In The Rain]]"
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| [[1985-MM-DD]]
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| The Netherlands
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| AMRS 1484
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| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Consider Me Gone]]" (live)
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| [[1985-MM-DD]]
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| South Africa
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| AM-2767 (promo)
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| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Fortress Around Your Heart]]"
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| [[1985-MM-DD]]
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| USA
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| AM-2767
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| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Consider Me Gone]]" (live)
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| [[1985-MM-DD]]
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| USA
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| AM 233
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| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Consider Me Gone]]" (live)
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| [[1985-10-10]]
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| Japan
 
|}
 
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! Release date
 
! Release date
 
! Release country
 
! Release country
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| AMP-12007
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| "[[Love Is The Seventh Wave]]"/"[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song) | Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/" [[The Dream Of The Blue Turtles (song) | The Dream Of The Blue Turtles]] "
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| [[1985-MM-DD]]
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| Japan
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| SP-12153
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| "[[Love Is The Seventh Wave]]"/"[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song) | Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/" [[The Dream Of The Blue Turtles (song) | The Dream Of The Blue Turtles]] "
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| [[1985-MM-DD]]
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| USA
 
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 
|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
 
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 
| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
 
| AMY 286
 
| AMY 286
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| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Shadows In The Rain]]"
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| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Shadows In The Rain (Sting song)|Shadows In The Rain]]"  
 
| [[1985-10-11]]
 
| [[1985-10-11]]
 
| UK
 
| UK
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| AMS-43008 (red vinyl)
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| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Consider Me Gone]] (live)"
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| [[1985-MM-DD]]
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| Mexico
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| SP-17339 (promo)
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| "[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song)|Fortress Around Your Heart]]"/"[[Consider Me Gone]] (live)"
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| [[1985-MM-DD]]
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| USA
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| AMY 305
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| "[[Moon Over Bourbon Street]]"/"[[The Ballad Of Mack The Knife]]"/"[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song) | Fortress Around Your Heart]]"
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| [[1985-MM-DD]]
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| England
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|- style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"
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| [[Image:stub.gif|40px]]
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| AMY 392 080-1
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| "[[Moon Over Bourbon Street]]"/"[[The Ballad Of Mack The Knife]]"/"[[Fortress Around Your Heart (song) | Fortress Around Your Heart]]"
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| [[1985-MM-DD]]
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| Germany
 
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=Lyrics=
 
=Lyrics=
 
<pre>
 
<pre>
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This is a sample set of lyrics
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Under the ruins of a walled city
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They should go here
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Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light
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No flags of truce, no cries of pity
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The siege guns had been pounding all through the night
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It took a day to build the city
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We walked through its streets in the afternoon
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As I returned across the fields I'd known
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I recognized the walls that I once laid
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I had to stop in my tracks for fear
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Of walking on the mines I'd laid
  
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And if I have built this fortress around your heart
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Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
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and this section
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Then let me build a bridge
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as well
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For I cannot fill the chasm
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And let me set the battlements on fire
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Then I went off to fight some battle
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That I'd invented inside my head
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Away so long for years and years
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You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
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While the armies all are sleeping
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Beneath the tattered flag we'd made
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I had to stop in my tracks for fear
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Of walking on the mines I'd laid
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This prison has now become your home
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A sentence you seem prepared to pay
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It took a day to build the city
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We walked through its streets in the afternoon
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As I returned across the lands I'd known
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I recognized the fields where I'd once played
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I had to stop in my tracks for fear
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Of walking on the mines I'd laid
 
</pre>
 
</pre>
  
 
=Quotations and trivia=
 
=Quotations and trivia=
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''This section needs more information.''
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UK ad:
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[[Image:1985_10_12_The_Hit_ad.jpg|80px]]
  
 
=Alternative and cover versions=
 
=Alternative and cover versions=
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=References=
 
=References=
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''This section needs more information.''
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source: Melody Maker - October 12, [[1985]] (UK release date), [[1986-01 International Musician And Recording World - NAMM Special]]
  
 
[[Category:Songs (Sting)]] [[Category:Songwriting credits (Sting)]]
 
[[Category:Songs (Sting)]] [[Category:Songwriting credits (Sting)]]

Latest revision as of 09:42, 11 December 2021

"Fortress Around Your Heart"
If song was released as a single, include single cover art. Otherwise, include album cover artwork to replace the 45 rpm, if available.
Recorded by Sting
Released: 1985-06-01
Recorded: March - April 1985
Length: 4:48
Album(s): The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
Label(s): A&M
Writer(s): Sting
Producer(s): Sting & Pete Smith
Studio(s): Blue Wave Recording Studio
Released as single? YES

"Fortress Around Your Heart" is a song written by Sting and recorded by Sting in 1985.

About the song

Sting played bass on this songs as he was writing it in the studio - and recorded the bass line straightaway.

Personnel

This section needs more information.

Release History

Albums

Fortress Around Your Heart appears on the following album releases:

Cover art Album title Release date Release country
Sting-album-dreamblueturtles.jpg The Dream Of The Blue Turtles 1985-06-01 Country

Singles

CD Singles

Cover art Catalog no. Songs Release date Release country
Stub.gif Catalog no. "Song"(s) YYYY-MM-DD Country

7" Singles

Cover art Catalog no. A-side song/B-side song Release date Release country
Stub.gif AM 2767 "Fortress Around Your Heart"/"Consider Me Gone" (live) 1985-MM-DD Canada
Stub.gif AM 286 "Fortress Around Your Heart"/"Shadows In The Rain" 1985-10-11 UK
Stub.gif AM 286 "Fortress Around Your Heart"/"Shadows In The Rain" + bonus single "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" / "Another Day" 1985-10-11 UK
Stub.gif AM 390 081-7 "Fortress Around Your Heart"/"Shadows In The Rain" 1985-MM-DD The Netherlands
Stub.gif AMRS 1484 "Fortress Around Your Heart"/"Consider Me Gone" (live) 1985-MM-DD South Africa
Stub.gif AM-2767 (promo) "Fortress Around Your Heart"/"Fortress Around Your Heart" 1985-MM-DD USA
Stub.gif AM-2767 "Fortress Around Your Heart"/"Consider Me Gone" (live) 1985-MM-DD USA
Stub.gif AM 233 "Fortress Around Your Heart"/"Consider Me Gone" (live) 1985-10-10 Japan

12" Singles

Cover art Catalog no. A-side song(s)/B-side song(s) Release date Release country
Stub.gif AMP-12007 "Love Is The Seventh Wave"/" Fortress Around Your Heart"/" The Dream Of The Blue Turtles " 1985-MM-DD Japan
Stub.gif SP-12153 "Love Is The Seventh Wave"/" Fortress Around Your Heart"/" The Dream Of The Blue Turtles " 1985-MM-DD USA
Stub.gif AMY 286 "Fortress Around Your Heart"/"Shadows In The Rain" 1985-10-11 UK
Stub.gif AMS-43008 (red vinyl) "Fortress Around Your Heart"/"Consider Me Gone (live)" 1985-MM-DD Mexico
Stub.gif SP-17339 (promo) "Fortress Around Your Heart"/"Consider Me Gone (live)" 1985-MM-DD USA
Stub.gif AMY 305 "Moon Over Bourbon Street"/"The Ballad Of Mack The Knife"/" Fortress Around Your Heart" 1985-MM-DD England
Stub.gif AMY 392 080-1 "Moon Over Bourbon Street"/"The Ballad Of Mack The Knife"/" Fortress Around Your Heart" 1985-MM-DD Germany

Video

"Fortress Around Your Heart" appears on the following video and dvd releases:

Cover art Video title Release date Release country
Stub.gif Video or dvd title YYYY-MM-DD Country


Awards, nominations, and certifications

Awards

This section needs more information.

Year Winner Award Category
YYYY WINNER (album, song, producer, etc.) AWARD (Grammy, People's Choice, etc.) CATEGORY

Nominations

This section needs more information.

Year Nominee Award Category
YYYY NOMINEE (album, song, producer, etc.) AWARD (Grammy, People's Choice, etc.) CATEGORY

Certifications

This section needs more information.

Country Certifier Classification Certification
COUNTRY CERTIFIER (RIAA, IFPI...) CLASSIFICATION (Album, singles, foreign artist...) CERTIFICATION (Gold, Platinum, Diamond...)

Lyrics

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 all 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 once laid
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid

And if I have 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

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'd laid

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
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I'd laid

Quotations and trivia

UK ad:

1985 10 12 The Hit ad.jpg

Alternative and cover versions

This section needs more information.

See also

This section needs more information.

External links

This section needs more information.

References

source: Melody Maker - October 12, 1985 (UK release date), 1986-01 International Musician And Recording World - NAMM Special

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