With all these wars on the horizon, just say, “No!!”

Earlier performances:

• Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms (Mandela Live 1988)
• Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms – (LIVE Wembley 1988)

Related:

• The Story Behind ‘Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms’

Lyrics:

“Brothers In Arms”

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 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
We have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun’s gone to hell
Moon’s riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die

But it’s written in the starlight
Every line in your palm
We’re fools to make war
On our brothers in arms