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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Mat Kearney
Mat Kearney
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Mat Kearney
Mat Kearney
Composer
Trent Dabbs
Trent Dabbs
Composer
Ruslan Odnoralov
Ruslan Odnoralov
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Mat Kearney
Mat Kearney
Producer
Ruslan Odnoralov
Ruslan Odnoralov
Producer
J. Hall
J. Hall
Mixing Engineer
Joe LaPorta
Joe LaPorta
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Let me be your fortress, I'll let you in
Hide away your secrets, I'll carry them
You're the one I've wanted to defend
If you let me be the hero I've never been
[Verse 2]
'Cause our hearts can't cover the tracks
We both see where we keep coming back
I don't care what we've said in the past
Out of the forest, behind my door is a
Fortress
[Verse 3]
Out of the forest, behind my door is a
Fortress
[Verse 4]
Let me be the war already won
You can be the nation where I come from
We can be the kingdom yet to come
If you let me be, let me be the one
[Verse 5]
'Cause our hearts can't cover the tracks
We both see where we keep coming back
I don't care what we've said in the past
Out of the forest, behind my door is a
Fortress
[Verse 6]
Out of the forest, behind my door is a
Fortress
[Verse 7]
Evergreens, evergreens, all up ahead of me
Blazing a trail with the enemy texting me
You like the best of me, not all the rest of me
'Minds me of seventeen, put him on 'phetamines
[Verse 8]
Forever, don't know what it meant to me
Everything anyone ever has said to me
But you call my revelry
Like you were sent to me
[Verse 9]
Let's climb to the mezzanine, stay till we're seventy
Under the stars at seventy, yes
[Verse 10]
Out of the forest, behind my door is a
Fortress
[Verse 11]
Fortress
[Verse 12]
Out of the forest, behind my door is a
Fortress
Written by: Mat Kearney, Ruslan Odnoralov, Trent Dabbs

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