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
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Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've 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
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There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones
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Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moons riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
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But its written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

Performed by Dire Straits.
Words and Music by Mark Knopfler.
From "Dona Nobis Pacem" - Vaughn Williams
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THE last
sunbeam
Lightly falls from the finish'd
Sabbath,
On the pavement here, and there
beyond it is looking,
Down a new-made double grave.
Lo, the moon
ascending,
Up from the east the silvery round
moon,
Beautiful over the house-tops,
ghastly, phantom moon,
Immense and silent moon.
I see a sad
procession,
And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd
bugles,
All the channels of the city streets
they're flooding,
As with voices and with tears.
I hear the
great drums pounding,
And the small drums steady whirring,
And every blow of the great
convulsive drums,
Strikes me through and through.
For the son is
brought with the father,
(In the foremost ranks of the fierce
assault they fell,
Two veterans son and father dropt
together,
And the double grave awaits them.)
Now nearer blow
the bugles,
And the drums strike more
convulsive,
And the daylight o'er the pavement
quite has faded,
And the strong dead-march enwraps
me.
In the eastern
sky up-buoying,
The sorrowful vast phantom moves
illumin'd,
('Tis some mother's large
transparent face,
In heaven brighter growing.)
O strong
dead-march you please me!
O moon immense with your silvery
face you soothe me!
O my soldiers twain! O my veterans
passing to burial!
What I have I also give you.
The moon gives
you light,
And the bugles and the drums give
you music,
And my heart, O my soldiers, my
veterans,
My heart gives you love.
Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.
With Love, from Daniel. Come HOME Soon!