Brothers in arms

Here I am again in this mean old town

And you're so far away from me

And where are you when the sun goes down

You're so far away from me



So far away from me

So far I just can't see

So far away from me

You're so far away from me



I'm tired of being in love and being all alone

When you're so far away from me

I'm tired of making out on the telephone

And you're so far away from me



So far away from me

So far I just can't see

So far away from me

You're so far away from me



I get so tired when I have to explain

When you're so far away from me

See you've  been in the sun and I've been in the rain

And you're so far away from me



So far away from me

So far I just can't see

So far away from me

You're so far away from me

Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it

You play the guitar on the MTV

That ain't workin' that's the way you do it

Money for nothin' and chicks for free

Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it

Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb

Maybe get a blister on your little finger

Maybe get a blister on your thumb



We gotta install microwave ovens

Custom kitchen deliveries

We gotta move these refrigerators

We gotta move these colour TV's



See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup

Yeah buddy that's his own hair

That little faggot got his own jet airplane

That little faggot he's a millionaire



We gotta install microwave ovesns

Custom kitchens deliveries

We gotta move these refrigerators

We gotta move these colour TV's



I shoulda learned to play the guitar

I shoulda learned to play them drums

Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera

Man we could have some fun

And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises?

Bangin' on the bongoes like a chimpanzee

That ain't workin' that's the way you do it

Get your money for nothin' get your chicks for free



We gotta install microwave ovens

Custom kitchen deliveries

We gotta move these refrigerators

We gotta move these colour TV's, Lord



Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it

You play the guitar on the MTV

That ain't workin' that's the way you do it

Money for nothin' and your chicks for free

Money for nothin' and chicks for free

Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies

Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say

Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman

Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay

He got the action, he got the motion

Yeah, the boy can play

Dedication devotion

Turning all the night time into the day



He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman

He do the song about the knife

He do the walk, he do the walk of life



Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story

Hand me down mu walkin' shoes

Here come Johnny with the power and the glory

Backbeat the talkin' blues

He got the action, he got the motion

Yeah, the boy can play

Dedication devotion

Turning all the night time into the day



He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman

He do the song about the knife

He do the walk, he do the walk of life



Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies

Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say

Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman

Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay

He got the action, he got the motion

Yeah the boy can play

Decidation devotion

Turning all the night time into the day



And after all the violence and double talk

There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife

You do the walk, you do the walk of life

All the late night bargains have been struck

Between the satin beaus and their belles

And prehistoric garbage trucks

Have the city to themselves

Echoes roars dinosaurs

They're all doing the monster mash

And most of the taxis and the whores

Are only taking calls for cash



I don't know how it happened

It all took place so quick

But all I can do is hand it to you

And your latest trick



My door was standing open

Security was laid back and lax

But it was only my heart got broken

You must have had a pass key made out of wax

You played robbery with insolence

And I played the blues in twelve bars down Lover's Lane

And you never did have the inteligence to use

The twelve keys hanging off my chain



I don't know how it happened

It all took place so quick

But all I can do is hand it to you

And your latest trick



Now it's past last call for alcohol

Past recall has been here and gone

The landlord finally paid us all

The satin jazzmen have put away their horns

And we're standing outside of this wonderland

Looking so bereaved and so bereft

Like a Bowery bum when he finally understands

The bottle's empty and there's nothing left



I don't know how it happened

It was faster than the eye could flick

But now all I can do is hand it to you

And your latest trick

Baby I see this world has made you sad

Some people can be bad

The things they do, the things they say

But baby I'll wipe away those bitter tears

I'll chase away those restless fears

That turn your blue skies into grey



Why worry, there should be laughter after pain

There should be sunshine after rain

These things have always been the same

So why worry now



Baby when I get down I turn to you

And you make sense of what I do

I know it isn't hard to say

But baby just when this world seems mean and cold

Our love comes shining red and gold

And all the rest is by the way



Why worry, there should be laughter after pain

There should be sunshine after rain

These things have always been the same

So why worry now

I'm a soldier of freedom in the army of man

We are the chosen, we're the partisan

The cause it is noble and the cause it is just

We are ready to pay with our lives if we must



Gonna ride across the river deep and wide

Ride across the river to the other side



I'm a soldier of fortune, I'm a dog of war

And we don't give a damn who the killing is for

It's the same old story with a different name

Death or glory, it's the killing game



Gonna ride across the river deep and wide

Ride across the river to the other side



Nothing gonna stop them as the day follows the night

Right becomes wrong, the left becomes the right

And they sing as they march with their flags unfurled

Today in the mountains, tomorrow the world



Gonna ride across the river deep and wide

Ride across the river to the other side

I'm just and ageing drummer boy

And in the wars I used to play

And I've called the tune

To many a torture session

Now they say I am a war criminal

And I'm fading away

Father please her my confession



I have legalised robbery

Called it belief

I have run with the money

And hid like a theif

I have re-written history

With my armies and my crooks

Invented memories

I did burn all the books

And I can still hear his laughter

And I can still hear his song

The man's too big

The man's too strong



Well I have tried to be meek

And I have tried to be mild

But I spat like a woman

And sulked like a child

I have lived behind wall

That have made me alone

Striven for peace

Which I never have known

And I can still hear his laughter

And I can still hear his song

The man's too big

The man's too strong



Well the sun rose on the courtyard

And they all did hear him say

'You always were a Judas

But I got you anyway

You may have got your silver

But I swear upon my life

Your sister gave me diamonds

And I gave them to your wife

Oh father please help me

For I have done wrong

The man's too big

The man's too strong

Can't find no sleeves for my records

Can't get no laces for my shoes

Can't get no fancy notes

On my blue guitar

Can't get no antidote for blues



Can't find the reasons for your actions

Or I don't much like the reasoning you use

Somehow your motives are impure

Or somehow I can't find the cure

Can't find no antidote for blues



They say it's mostly vanity

That writes the plays we act

They tell me that's what everybody knows

There's no such thing as sanity

And that's the sanest fact

That's the way the story goes



Can't get no remedy on my TV

There's nothing but the same old news

They can't find a way to be

One world in harmony

Can't get no antidote for blues

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 arm



Through these fields of destruction

Baptism 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



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's riding high

Let me bid you farewell

Every man has to die

But it's written in the starlight

And every line on your palm

We're fools to make war

On our brothers in arms