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I meant to post this cover of the Dire Straits song by Home Free over Memorial Day but I just forgot until it popped up in my YouTube feed today. Mark Knopfler wrote the song back in 1982 in response to The Falklands War. I can remember picking up the Brothers In Arms album in late '85 and listening to it in the barracks and thinking that it was so different from anything else Dire Straits was doing, but it was still very powerful.
These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Someday, 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 battle raged higher
And though they did hurt me 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
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 in your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Someday, 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 battle raged higher
And though they did hurt me 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
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 in your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
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