Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart flac album

Fortress Around Your Heart" was closer to the Police sound than most of the other, more jazz-inflected tracks on the album, and was released as the second single, following "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free. Sting says this song is connected to "Wrapped Around Your Finger," from The Police's Synchronicity album. Wrapped' was a spiteful song about turning the tables on someone who had been in charge.

'Fortress Around Your Heart' was written in the studio in '85, in Barbados. I'd just been playing around with those chords on the guitar - strange, modal chords. They sounded kind of medieval actually and so I got into a whole line of thinking about medieval sieges, castle walls, siege guns, armies sleeping under tattered flags and thought it was a nice metaphor for love gone wrong. The song featured extensively in the 1981 tour and Sting re-recorded the track for inclusion on his debut solo album, 'The Dream Of The Blue Turtles' and as the B-side to the 'Fortress Around Your Heart' single, and the song featured in the set during the subsequent tour.

Fortress Around Your Heart was the third single for Sting’s Dream of the Blue Turtles album. Although the song wasn’t successful in the UK, it was more successful in the USA where it stayed at for 11 weeks. Sting got the idea for the song in Barbadosa when he was playing medieval-sounding chords on a guitar: ‘Fortress Around Your Heart’ was written in the studio in ‘85, in Barbados. I’d just been playing around with those chords on the guitar – strange, modal chords

Album Name Fortress Around Your Heart. Type EP. 发布日期 十月 1985. 1. Fortress Around Your Heart. 2. Shadows in the Rain. Other productions from Sting. 57th & 9th. The Last Ship.

Fortress Around Your Heart" is one of four hit singles released from Sting's 1985 solo debut album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. The song was later included on the . release of the Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994 compilation album. YouTube Encyclopedic. 1/1. Views: 1 178. Sting - fortress around your heart. 'Fortress' is about appeasement, about trying to bridge the gaps between individuals. The central image is a minefield that you've laid around this other person to try and protect them. Then you realise that you have to walk back through it. I think it's one of the best choruses I've ever written.

Music video by Sting performing Fortress Around Your Heart. C) 1991 A&M Records. If The Police stayed together and made another album just after Synchronicity in the mid 80s, I feel like this is pretty close to what it would've sounded like.

from the album: Dream of the Blue Turtles. Intro: Riff -8- play this a total of 4 times 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 throughout the section below. Then I went off to fight some battle That I'd invented inside my head. Part E: play riff throughout the section below.

Fortress Around Your Heart is a song from Sting's 1985 album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. The song was also released as a single, and reached and on the . singles charts, respectively. Sting wrote the song in the studio in Barbados in 1985. A Branford Marsalis sax solo is the highlight of the song. The inspiration for this song was the pain he felt from the failure of his first marriage.