Fortress Around Your Heart
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"Fortress Around Your Heart" is a Sting song from his 1985 album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. The song was also released as a single, and reached #8 and #49 on the U.S. and U.K. 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.[citation needed] The inspiration for this song was the pain he felt from the failure of his first marriage. In a Musician magazine interview later that year, he said:
"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."
During one of Sting's first performances of the song in concert in Paris, his crew lowered a tiny fortress onto the stage in a parody of the similar Stonehenge scene from the film This Is Spinal Tap.
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