BrothersinArms是英国摇滚乐队DireStraits所演唱的一首歌曲。DireStraits,于1976年组建于伦敦西南部的代特福德,活跃于1977至1995年期间。
他们的成功主要应归于吉他演奏大师、乐队的核心人物MarkKnopfler(生于1949年8月12日)。Knopfler29岁时才开始音乐生涯,此前他曾做过新闻记者和教师。他吸收了许多音乐,在组建乐队之时,在歌曲创作和吉他演奏上已臻成熟。
DireStraits'的音乐风格受很多音乐风格的影响,包括爵士,乡村音乐及蓝调,比较接近于摇滚这个大范畴内的beatmusic(节奏音乐)。乐队的音乐极简化,与乐队成立时期是大热门的朋克摇滚相去甚远。他们的音乐是复古酒吧摇滚的产物,然而当时酒吧摇滚是积极向上,赞扬美好时期,乐队的音乐却是悲伤的。尽管是这种奇怪的摇滚风格,DireStraits却成为世界上最成功的商业摇滚乐队之一。
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 battle raged high
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
And the moon 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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