Un der the ruins (Gm7)of a walled (Dm)cit y

crum bling towers (Gm7)in beams of (Dm)yel low light.

No flags of truce, (Gm7)no cries of (Dm)pit y;

the seige guns had been pound (Gm7)ing through (Dm)the night.

It took a day to build the cit y.

We walked through its streets in the af ter noon.

As I re turned a cross the fields I’d known,

I rec og nized the walls that I once made.

Had to stop in my tracks for fear of (B7)walk ing on the mines I’d laid.

And if I’ve built this for tress a (D)round your heart,

en (Em)cir cled you in trench es and barbed (D)wire,

then (Em)let me build a (G)bridge,

for I can not fill the chas m,

and (Cm7)let me (Dm7)set the (Ebmaj7)bat tle (F)ments on (Gsus2)fire.

Then I pri son went off to fight some bat tle

that I’d sen tence in you vent ed in side my head.

A way so long for years and years, y.

you prob a through bly thought or e ven wished that I was dead.

While I the ar mies are the all lands sleep I’d ing known

I be rec neath og nized the tat the tered fields where flag I we’d once made, played.

I had to stop in my tracks for fear of (B7)walk ing on the mines I’d laid.

And if I’ve built this for tress a (D)round your heart,

en (Em)cir cled you in trench es and barbed (D)wire,

then (Em)let me build a (G)bridge,

for I can not fill the chas m,

and (Cm7)let me (Dm7)set the (Ebmaj7)bat tle (F)ments on (Gsus2)fire.

This I pri son has now be come your home, tle

a I’d sen tence in you seem ed pre pared to pay.

It took a day to build the cit y.

We walked a through bly its streets in the af that ter noon, dead.

As I re turned a cross the all lands sleep I’d ing known

I be rec neath og nized the tat the tered fields where flag I we’d once made, played.

I had to stop in my tracks for fear of (B7)walk ing on the mines I’d laid.

And if I’d laid.

And if