Brothers in Arms/Dire Straits
By debrakcarey
@debrakcarey (19887)
United States
May 15, 2011 1:16pm CST
BROTHERS IN ARMS by Dire Straits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs&feature=related
What a beautiful haunting song. Appropriate for Memorial Day coming up I think.
These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms
Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though we were hurt so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms
There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones
Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
This was the theme to Band of Brothers wasn't it? Metallica did a cover of it. What say you, good song?
3 responses
@urbandekay (18278)
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18 May 11
Aye, a great song
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arm
War goes on till men refuse to fight
Those that justify war, any war, must justify the motivation to it, and that runs contrary to scripture
all the best urban
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
18 May 11
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
16 May 11
I've heard the title but never heard the song. If I had, I would not have unerstood most of the lyrics. So many bands play the music so loud that the words are inaudible or the singer doesn't enunciate well enough to be understood. Dire Straits didn't often have this problem but in this song he seems to be trying to underline the seriousness of it by vocalizing so softly that the words are overwhelmed. Or maybe I just hear wrong, I can't understand most of it enough to string it all together. Love Knopfler's licks, though, he's such a master. 
Regardless, what great lyrics!
Regardless, what great lyrics! @debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
16 May 11
That's why I posted the lyrics.I thought it was just my old ears! 
@jazzsue58 (2666)
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16 May 11
If you can read the lyrics and hear the tune, it's a great song. Dire Straits and Mark Knoppfler are up there with the true greats. Possibly my favourite band of all time. They were playing this one on radio the other night - beautiful and totally contemporary in every way. I instantly thought about the conflict in Afghanistan. Superb.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
16 May 11
Any armed conflict. It touched a nerve today. Glad you liked it. I posted the words cause on my computer, they were hard to make out.
