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Lyrics
with a political message: 'Brothers in Arms'
Here are the lyrics from Brothers
in Arms from the album Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. This song was a comment
on the Civil War in South Africa but could be about any war where people in the
same country are fighting each other. The power of the message in the song was
thought to be so strong that it was banned by the Apartheid South African
government in the 1980s as were all the albums by Dire Strait.
Listen to the music and note down
how the music adds to the meaning in the lyrics.
Brothers in Arms
LYRICS
COMMENTS ON THE MUSIC
These
Mist covered mountains
Are
home now for me.
But
my home is in 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
fields of destruction
Baptisms
of fire.
I've
witnessed your suffering
As
the battle raged higher.
And
though it don't hurt me so bad
In
the fear and alarm.
You
did not desert me
My
brother 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 suns gone to heaven
The
moon riding high
Let
me bid you farewell
Ev'ry
man has to die.
For
it's written in the starlight,
In
ev'ry line on your palm
You're
a fool to wage war
On
our brothers in arms.
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