Artist: Dire Straits
Song: Brothers In Arms

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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
Ive watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

Theres so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the suns gone to hell
And the moons riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But its written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
Were fools to make war
On our brothers in arms


2 Responses to “Lyricist Wednesday: Brothers In Arms”  

  1. 1 Lex

    In addition to being a fine song in its own right, it also anchored two unrelated, very powerful pieces of TV: The Miami Vice episode “Out Where the Buses Don’t Run” and a “West Wing” episode — “18th and Potomac,” I think — in which [[***spoiler alert***]] the president’s secretary dies in a wreck.

  2. 2 Sean Coon

    how in the world did you remember that miami vice episode?

    hey lex, were you at ganache the other night? i thought it was you, i tried waving and you stared right through me. you looked a bit… overwrought. if it was you, that is…