Played at the funeral of my beautiful brother, aged 33. Even 8 years later to remember the sight at least 30 soldiers crying to this, as the flyover and bagpipes played will remain with me forever. May all those who served and gave the ultimate sacrifice, rest in peace xx
The title of the song matches perfectly with how the show ended. Jeremy, James and Richard for two decades were brothers through everything. Gonna miss the Grand Tour.
Ecco perso il compagno che ti copriva le spalle....ora ti senti perso non hai piu il sentimento giusto....ti sei spento😢prova a scrivere cosa provi in questo momento
Me too….I dedicate this song to all my Airborne Brothers in Arms , until that day I walk through those huge wooden doors into the great hall of Valhalla……I think of you everyday and night…..Airborne…..❤
Yes, it is. They do not make music like this anymore. Pink Floyd, the Who, Dire Straits, and some other epic bands. It is as if all nowadays music is soul- and meaningless. Just electronic noise. With some exceptions of course….
Perfect song for the scene. Also lost my best friend in september '22... He loved Dire Straits. I'm a bit emotional yes but hey... Thank you Jeremy, Richard & James. I'm 28 now and loved TG from the beginning. I made tens of English class essays about you. :D Most importantly; rest in peace Olli. A man couldn't have asked for a better buddy. Miss ya brother ❤️
It has been one hell of a ride. The trio cant be replaced - and this song was the perfect ending. The whole episode is one of the best they did. Dont be sad its over - be happy that it happened.
WE ALL GAVE SOME , BUT SOME GAVE IT ALL. Thank you to anyone who served . You are my brother's and sisters . And to the ones who did not make it back wait for us on the other side .
I’m 15 and I lost my dad in august. I remember warm summer nights sitting outside listening to this song among others. He would always tell me that when he passed every time I here this song I’d think of him. I wasn’t expecting to lose him so soon. Cancer is a terrible thing. It slowly destroys you from the inside out. Watching him fade away until he was just a skeleton of his old self is the hardest thing I’ve ever witnessed. This song helps me to remember the dad I loved, the happy, loving, smart man that raised me. I don’t like to remember him in the later stages of cancer, that wasn’t him. I miss you dad... I’d give everything to have you back for even a second :’/
Sorry for your loss Alcazar 😔 😢 I lost both my parents CANCER its a terrible disease and nobody should have to go through what our parents have been through. God bless 🙏 my friend. Don x
And this song can be considered timeless because it fits so well with any who have fought the wars through time. It especially makes me think of those wonderful people of the "Great Generation". I am seventy five years old, and they were my mentors as I grew up. Now they are almost all gone, and I miss them all. The guys who were vets lived the horrors they had witnessed in their dreams at night. Their wives would tell my folks, or even myself this, because the wives lived the broken sleep also. And yet, through all they had lived, they remained loving and caring people through the remainder their lives. This song truly represents these people for me. And the last lines are so hard hitting.
Definitely a powerful one! For me it was: "We are fools to make war on our brothers in arms." It portrays the senselessness of war and the infinte amout of suffering it creates...
@@Chrisoricit’s written in the starlight and every line in your palm, we’re fools to make war on our brothers in arms ❤ really powerful and true. It’s in our dna to not make war, karmically devastating
As a Vietnam combat vet, this tune really resonates with me. Mark Knopfler is one of the most underrated guitarists and songwriters ever, in my humble opinion.
Dear Mark, This song grips and touches every person that has served. Every time I listen to this masterpiece, it brings tears to my eyes. Its a truly timeless piece of art that expresses what you and I lived true. Combat brings up the best and the worst in us humans. The duality of live. Peace brother.
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 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'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
My dad was dying of cancer and asked me to make sure this song was in his funeral. I lost him 5 days after his diagnosis due to sepsis. Me and my brother proudly carried him to this song and I come back to it every time I miss him. Amazing song
"Amazing song"? Yeah...it really is!!! Honestly...I may not have ever known your father...and do not even know YOU...! But his last wish...and also the fact, you carried him to this song, it demands respect!!!
This terrible cancer, I known what it means, my best friend was dying of cancer, my thoughts are at you and all people suffering of this disease. I can't understand what happenes in the world, how much people must die in war, so much money for weapons.. We could better give it in the health system.. In great solidarity, take care on you.. 💚
I lost fellow soldiers. I have lost a son. I have lost a father. Somehow this haunting song brings them back to me briefly. One of the only things left that can bring me to tears.
Bubba I know this feeling too - I'm crying right now as the memories of the Falklands flood my mind. Especially carrying out a mate on my back as he was dying. Fk those 2 Sisters!! Per Mare Per Terram 42nd
сомневаюсь в вашем заявлении.Одно могу сказать никакой бункер не спасёт от ядерной войны,бункер только отсрочит.И только в фантастике возможно что мы!, выжевем,радиация убивает в течении ни 100 лет а больше,и продуктов,воды,воздуха,фильтров и так далее не хватит для выживания даже небольшого количества людей!
This song will never get old - it is so full of emotion, not just the message/the words, but the guitar is literally crying at points and you can really appreciate how real and raw this song is on so many levels. A true masterpiece.
I was a young journalist working in Central America when this came out. During that terrible time this song was a powerful secular hymn to me, and it still has the power to draw an old man's tears.
@@ericjohnson8326 No, I was mostly based in Honduras along the Nicaraguan border. Early in the morning we'd ride out in a helicopter, looking for shooting. This album would be playing on my Walkman, which dates me. I was later in Panama for that party.
Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hamond…. Jezza, Captain slow and Hamster… Thank you so SO SOO much, Thank u so much for creating an amazing televisionn program… Thank you for the best 22 years in my live… (even tho i have been existing for just 20 now but that doesnt mather) Thank you 3 so much… we love you ❤❤❤
1989. I sat with my only son and we held hands listenng to this piece, enjoying the moment. A week later he was dead, having taken his own life on his 17th birthday, using my 12 bore,. I still listen to this piece, sitting there, holding his hand.
I am 32 years old now. I was merely 21 when I was deployed to Afghanistan. Next to me sat a younger boy -none of us were men then, men know what they're doing, we didn't- named Alex. He was only 19. Alex was an orphan, just another lost soul sent to fight for a country that never cared for neither him, neither any soul it sent to its doom. Alex and I began nervously talking and before the plane landed, we were inseparable. We became the closest of friends over the course of our time in Afghanistan, we had to learn to kill and accept death. It wasn't easy, nothing was, but at least, in the middle of all the crap that went on, we had formed a friendship, a friendship so strong I dare say it was almost a brotherhood. I loved Alex both as a friend and as the younger brother I never had -and apparently was never meant to have. I felt responsible for him, felt like I had to teach him things I didn't even know myself. Most of all I cared for that boy more than I cared for myself. Alex died 11 years ago today. He dove on an Afghan grenade, saving my life and 12 others. Born a zero and died a fucking hero. The word "hero" is the least I can say to describe him. But they didn't talk about him on tv, they didn't give him a medal and they just forgot about him. Just another lost soul never finding its way. I was sent home a little after all that. A taxi took me from the airport and took me back to my family. This is the first song that played on the taxi ride. Needless to say, I burst out crying right then and there. I had lost people in my life, but nothing hurt more than the loss of Alex. Thinking about it years later, I believe that this song playing on the radio was a signal from Alex up in the sky, telling me that he finally found his peace beside God, and telling me not to worry about him and go on with my life. Anyway, wherever you are, Alex, I miss you, my brother in arms... RIP Alex 09/09/2010.
I know it’s not the same but I just wanna say it. My father said *”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 in your palm* *My brother in arms.”* At his best friends funeral which he has known since he was a 7 year old boy as well as his other friend. They grew up in a small village in Congo which people found odd when he tells them about it because he is white but he is Belgian and they had colonised Congo so I assume it’s why they were there, he is now 53. They called themselves the 3 musketeers, Kris(*the one who has died*),Lawrence my dads other best friend and my dad Thierry. The 3 of them went to school together, shared a room with each other at boarding school. They all grew up together. Everything they did they did together. His father was an abusive alcoholic and died when my father was 9 while his mom was in hospital with cancer which she overcame but died 3 years later from TB so he didn’t really ever have family, but he told me that the 3 of them were brothers. Whether they were blood or not. After school they would go down to the river and get on their little wooden sail boat that they borrowed from a local fisherman with a few friends. There were crocodiles and hippos there but they didn’t care, they were young and foolish but they had fun. One of his friends had a brother who had gone missing, 3 days later one of his arms were found on the banks of the river(irrelevant, I know). The 3 musketeers later went to Belgium to finish their studies so they could make it one day, when they had finished they all moved to South Africa because they missed Africa, but it wasn’t the same kind of Africa. When they came here they had very little money so the 3 of them rented a small apartment and stayed in it together. They searched tirelessly for jobs and my dad and Kris found jobs here, they both became engineers, the other friend Lawrence went back to Belgium because he couldn’t get one here and later found one there. Kris introduced my mom to my dad and he is the reason I,my brother and my sister exist. He was the one who had wanted a family the most out of the 3 of them, he had many girlfriends in the past , he ended up finding the right one who unfortunately may not have been and they got engaged and a few months later she died in a car accident. Years past, my dad and Kris had some fights and didn’t see each other for a few months but they resolved their problems. He finally found the person who would become his wife and start a family with. They tried many times to have children but she had some problem with her which was preventing her from getting pregnant, they went to doctors and tried to sort out the problems and after some time they finally managed to have children, 2 daughters 1 year difference in age. The 3 musketeers still saw each other often even tho the one lives in Belgium who also has a family of his own now and the other lives almost 2 hours from us. They all made it and were successful in life but Kris seemed to be an unlucky man, he then got COVID when working on some project in Congo which is ironic. The last time the 3 of them were together was 2 years ago because of COVID/ lockdown. Lawrence and his family came here because it was Kris’s 50th birthday. That was the last time we saw Kris. He died on the 16th of August 2, 2021, 2 days before my dads birthday and the same day my dad had a heart attack 7 years ago. After being in hospital fighting COVID for nearly 2 months, my mom called me to come downstairs and I had the feeling something was wrong and I saw my mom and dad standing in the kitchen, they told me that Kris had died just before my mom started crying, my dad tried to act strong like always but at the dinner table halfway through dinner he just started crying, I had never seen my dad cry in my entire life, I am 17. He had multiple infections and organ failures and my father wasn’t allowed to visit him but it would have been pointless because towards the end he was tired and looked deathly ill and was mostly sedated, a week before he died his wife went there and kept telling him he will be fine and he will make it but with the little strength he had , he shook his head and said no his wife Charlene told us, he asked to see his girls who are 5 and 6 but they weren’t allowed in. They are now currently with us as his wife is suicidal and has gone to some institute to try and get help because she doesn’t know how to carry on.The girls don’t seem to understand what death is and that he isn’t coming back because they say “my daddy died and that’s why we aren’t at home but we waiting for mommy and daddy to come back” They don’t seem to be upset but they keep saying they miss mommy and daddy which hurts me to hear and I think it hurts my dad more as his friend isn’t here but his 2 daughters are and they will grow up without knowing their father like my dad did. My dad had to carry the coffin and do the eulogy which is when at the end he said those words because Brothers in arms was Kris’s favourite song. But now *The 3 musketeers are no more*. I am writing this with tears in my eyes as I find it very upsetting, I had to watch the funeral online as your are only allowed 50 people in a venue. My dad put his hand on his coffin and patted it and said something which he says is just for Kris. The rest Kris’s family couldn’t fly here because of restrictions so they had to do a funeral in Belgium without the coffin. We had to watch it online. Lawrence did the eulogy too but he broke down at the end. It was in french so I couldn’t understand but my dad could. He was very upset for the rest of that day and didn’t say a word, I think it re enforced the fact that he is gone and there is no changing it and you can’t do anything. My dad is now depressed and he doesn’t know what to do with his life which is upsetting for me and my family but the words he said in the eulogy *“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 in your palm* *My brother in arms.”* I will always remember those words. My dad has tears in his eyes when he listens to this song now. He says when it’s his turn he wants his song to be *Blood Brothers* By Bruce Springsteen because Lawrence will be the last one. Rip Kris. I know it’s not the same, I don’t know what it is like for you as I didn’t go to war and lose someone I was so close too like that so abruptly and in a way like that, and then for him to not even get the recognition that he deserved but I’m sure the people he has saved will always remember what he did and will forever be grateful as they were able to return to their families because of his sacrifice. Many people have gone to early before their lives even really started and it isn’t fair. I have never had a friendship or a bond like you guys have so I will unfortunately never know.
I served for over 2 decades in the Army and I lost to many brothers in arms. I cannot begin to express how emotional this song makes me particularly today (11 Nov.)
This came on in the car today (18th November) and it made me realise that, with all of the other things going on in the world at the moment, I had not taken particular note this year of Armistice Day, which made me feel sad and guilty. Then I realised that the people that we are honouring would probably far rather hear this than two minutes of silence, so I skipped it back to the start, cranked it up, and took the long way home: It is because of their sacrifice that I could do this. As a free civilian: Thank you and your Brothers & Sisters for your sacrifices.
I was five when my eldest brother went to Viet Nam. He came back - but was always a broken man. This song gets to me with its beautiful lyrics and haunting melody.
lyrics 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 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'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
Having been a soldier, and gone to war, this song absolutely resonates to me. My Regimental colleagues were my brothers in arms, but actually the enemy also were, in a sense. They’d been sent there by politicians, and so had we. And we had respect for them. Just ordinary fellows, doing what they’d been told to do.
This song came out back when I was a teenager, and it always remind me of the feeling of being drafted (it was compulsory army service back then where I live). We soldiers would hum this tune, it spoke to us on a gut level what an actual war would be like, sitting there in the freezing trenches looking up at the stars.
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 earn 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 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 are fools to make war On our brothers in arms
Jeremy, James & Richard really were brothers in arms for all 22 years they entertained us on TV. After all they’ve done for us they deserve knighthood! Thanks you three for everything! ❤🏁
One of the greatest mood songs ever written, on one of the greatest albums ever written. No one will ever touch the 1980s, may its spirit in us never die!
Goofy I totally feel you, I was 11 years old when my father passed on. I'm 56 now you never totally get over the pain and loss. Keep in mind he and ancestors before him follow you and live the best life you can with love in your heart and compassion for others.
So true, first time I ever heard this song was, when we found out we were heading to desert shield, that's what they called desert storm before the war started, a guy from Maine said I got something we all need to hear, he played this song an we all started crying, never cried while listening to a song in my life, we all hoped an prayed we see each other again after if was over, an thru god's mercy we did, still talk to some to this day
I always had a special view of this song: My great-grandfather fought in WW2. One day, he got really sick (the flu or whatever), and was send to a field hospital a few kilometers away. He recovered unusually fast and as he was on the way back to the frontline, he was told that his whole Platoon had been killed. He saw his disease as some kind of miracle, but was of course still devastated. The lyrics represent exactly what he must have gone through, and him getting sick is the only reason I'm alive today, what always comes into my mind when listening to this
Your beautiful comment brought me to tears. My dad fought in WW2. He had stacks of books on the subject, and it was like he was trying to find a reason, or an answer he could live with. He was captured and was a prisoner of war. The only thing he ever told me was that he accidentally shot a woman. It haunted him. I so wish he was still alive so I could tell him how much I love him.
Your comment strikes my heart. My father was in WWII. He broke his ankle when the Jeep he was a passenger in rolled into a ditch. His platoon went on. When he recovered, he was assigned to guard German POWs because he spoke some German. We read many books about WWII together and would discuss them. I don't think that he could ever process the whole thing. I wonder would I have even existed but for a car accident. I also wonder why we humans cannot learn from history.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
In 1984 a friend who was the only person in Cleveland who cared about an immigrant playing basketball and teaching my first lesson in playing Golf 18 pot gave me this casset as a parting gift to collage. In the early 90's went back to the visit and surprise him. Knocked on his door and his mother answered the door and when I asked If Daniel still lives there, she burst to crying telling me that he had passed and not one of his friends has ever stop by the house. I was shocked and asked if I can go to his room and cry. His room was the same with the same posters. 😭 Till today I still have his gift. Daniel, my brother, Brothers In Arms, forever. May your memory be for a blessing bro. 🙏
We are like a vapor 1 minute we are here and the next minute we are gone. Your friend Daniel lives in your heart. The cassette he gave you was Bob Seger ? Carry him with you wherever you go. Because sometimes the road is dark and you will need a friend to walk with.
This song.....still a masterpice.............tears roll every time. Memories of those who paid the ultimate price, and for those who did not give up the struggle!
30 years have gone by, and this incredibly sensitive piece of art still moves me to tears. The minimal-yet-deep lyrics, the almost-whispered singing as if mourning a loved one, the crying guitar riffs that sting the heart in perfect contrast to the restrained singing, the church-like synth cords, the soft drumming and caressing bass line - all accompanied by one of the classiest animation-videos of all times... this is the ultimate lamentation on the sheer display of human stupidity which we call war.
+אלעד דניאל Well said ! The only time I think all humans will come together will be if we are all under attack (e.g. from aliens, or by an incurable virus like Ebola)
you didnt bring us a little bit of happyness - you brought us all the joy in the motoring world. Thank you, 3 middle aged men of Wales, Birmingham and Doncaster:)
I'm listening this song few times a day and always crying because of my father in law who died last year, He was the one who showed me this song for the first time...
A song more relevant now than ever... (Not downplaying what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Checnya, Palestine, Georgia, and what is still happening in Syria and Yemen).
Putin will now end this 8-year war! What do you say about the 14,000 deaths in Donbass over the past 8 years? Died at the food distribution or on the way to school. Just thank the US who infiltrated Ukraine for their geo interests.
This song makes me think of my cousin who was a NYC firefighter on 9/11/2001 going up the stairs with a hose on tower 1 trying to help people when the building went down. He didn’t have a weapon, just a hose. It makes me think of him and all his brother and sister firefighters who lost their lives trying to help people.
Utmost respect, to your cousin, and all people around the world, who make the ultimate sacrifice, trying to help and protect others. The very best of the human spirit. 🙏🧡
God bless him and all who have died and fought for freedom. I was USAF. Vietnam vet and a hundred other no name places. Thank God we still have men and women in this world willing to fight for freedom, like your brother did. God rest his soul.
Thanks Jeremy, thanks Richard, Thanks James. thank you for shaping me, not only automotive, but also worldview, thank you for growing up with you from the age of 7. The fact of transience is sad, your end has once again made me realize how short life is, and how much we have to appreciate every moment. Chapeaus bas gentlemen! thank you
Yo los vi en directo en un concierto y cuando toco este tema el estadio se inundo de luces, fue por 1992 en Cáceres, nunca lo olvidare a este maestro de la guitarra.
Thank you, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, for all the laughs and for being there during the tough times. Your shows have meant so much to us, and we'll always cherish the memories 😢
My father loved this song, he was a soldier in life. He fought for what he believed in, and for his children. I miss him every day, but his suffering has gone. My brother in arms 💔
My fathers 1st piece of music on his funeral yesterday....he was carried in to this...he was 87 years old....and it has cut me to bits losing him....I hope I can carry on making you proud Dad🙏💔
When my husband passed away in July 22, We had this fantastic song at his funeral. Not a dry eye in the house. Such a moving song...still makes me cry. 🇬🇧🇬🇧😔
Thank you so much, Clarkson, Hammond and May. I've been watching you three for 22 years and it is so sad it is all over. They have been doing it for almost all of my life. This was the perfect song for the ending.
GaLimotion The only similarity between Birds of Paradise and Brothers in Arms is that they share the same key and almost the same tempo... other than that they're completely different in arrangement and structure.
Not enough respect was paid to this song back then or now. It’s truly astonishing and the most beautiful homage paid to our fallen soldiers that was ever written……❤️❤️❤️
this is one of the last songs my dad listened to before he committed suicide. I miss him so much everyday. If you’re struggling, reach out. It’s not weak to speak. R.I.P dad❤️
Oh my God, I’m so sorry. He must have been in the deepest pain, we can not imagine. I confess I have battled with these thoughts for a life time. My heart breaks for you, for him. Damn it, I wish he could have stayed, but he just couldn’t. Please accept my sincere condolences.
Aunt / surrogate grandmother last Friday, grandfather seven months ago, and other lesser figures in the past several months. I feel your pain. May he rest in peace.
There is an incoherence to this 'We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms', as if the 'we' is a world community (that doesn't exist). What about when others make war on you?
Is it really an ANTI war song tho ? Maybe it is but I never really took it to be such. Great sing I’ve listened to my whole adult life but I took it only as a telling of a story of war. To my knowledge the faulklands war , personally I’d say he wrote it in support of all the soldiers who fought there . That’s just my opinion tho ?
This song means so much to me. My brother left this as part of his suicide note for me. We lived in Australia at the time and my homeland was the lowlands of Scotland. He was right I did return to my Scottish homeland. The line “I’ve watched you’re suffering” means so much to me because at the time I was battling a terrible drug addiction. I wish I could have been a better brother to him.
Sad to hear that mate. They say time heals everything, i hope so because the burden can be too heavy sometimes..be kind to others, try to make up for your shortcomings in relationship with your brother. May he rest in peace. Wish you all the best Jack.
mmdirtyworkz thank you. That’s good advice and very considerate of you. I’m trying very hard to be a better person. I haven t used drugs or had a drink for years now. Thanks once again.
Hermione Watson Thank you for your kind words. It means a lot to get such kind words from a stranger. It reaffirms my belief that people are mostly nice good.
Yes, I feel like you.. Thinking of the victims of war, makes me very sad. I was a social worker, I saw children suffering of war in all countries.. And always the question "why"?
The '80s was probably the last decade of incredible music ~diverse, multifaceted, glorious, celebratory, melodically beautiful, technically perfection and oh my God some beats that are Unforgettable. After about 94, which produced four of my favorite songs that also reflected those sorts of things I just mentioned and then it all seem to go downhill with very few exceptions. And those 1994 songs I realize could have all just as easily come out in the seventies or eighties and been right at home. For the sake of interest: 1. Mr Jones and me 2. The Mmmmm Song (I think that's what it's called, LOL) 3. I found out about you 4. Good vibrations, (Mark wahlberg) Of course since then there have been some wonderful songs, but as a whole it's been pretty sucky. Jmo
Jezza, Captain Slow, Hamster. What an honor to have shared this experience with you. Left a void that no other will ever fill. Where ever your journey takes you, we all wish you the best. Thanks for two decades of an escape into a world of laughter, bliss, and joy.
This song man... it just gives me goosebumps. The lyrics, Mark's soft voice, the guitar "crying", it creates a perfect atmosphere that sends shivers down my spine. Imho, Mark Knopfler is the best guitarrist of all time. Not in speed or flashiness, but in taste and feeling.
the first time i heard this song, was when i was 11 years old. i was with my dad in the car when this song came up on the radio. my dad loves this song and he said 'ahh, this is a great song' and turned up the volume of the radio. it became my favourite song. i was listening it on repeat for months. aventually dire straits became my favourite band. few months later i started playing electric guitar because knopfler gave me that inspiration for playing music. for months i only played DS. i could see mr knopfler in real life in 2019 and i can defenatlly say it was the best day of my life. he is still a hero for me.
Thank you for the memories, Chaps! Clarkson, Hammond and May. You will be missed, this song was perfect for the ending! Not afraid to admit as a fully grown man I choked up a bit. After watching them for over 20 years together, it was like saying goodbye to three old friends for the last time!
My Dad, my hero, passed away in my arms a week ago, and as they were taking his body from his home, they played Dire Straits for him all the way to the funeral home. He loved this song, and this band. We listened to it together over the years since I was just a little girl, and it will always make me feel like he never left me. We may be living in different worlds right now, but I look forward to the day when I join you in yours Dad. I miss you more than words can describe. I love you… forever and ever
Played at the funeral of my beautiful brother, aged 33. Even 8 years later to remember the sight at least 30 soldiers crying to this, as the flyover and bagpipes played will remain with me forever. May all those who served and gave the ultimate sacrifice, rest in peace xx
Rest in peace 🙏
Rest in peace 🙏
I’m so sorry for your loss. We’ve lost many who we served with. I guess it’s our age group, but we’re undone by this song every time.
God bless all who serve to take care of us, we are so very sorry for your loss... Ultimate respect to all who serve xx
May his soul rest in peace
Thank you, Clarkson, Hammond, and May for the memories all these years
The ending hit so hard… I’ll miss them.
Perfect ending of alla time.
It was a perfect ending imo, just doing whatever they please without having to listen to anyone..I'll miss them after 22 years
And on that bombshell..
It’s so hard.
Clarkson Hammond and May, a trio that raised a generation of petrol heads. Their work is done.
Interestingly, petrol, gas, coal, solar, nuclear, they all come from thermonuclear energy of the Sun and the Universe
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3 Generations at least
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😅😊😅😅😅😅
Count me in I loved them and the song
The title of the song matches perfectly with how the show ended. Jeremy, James and Richard for two decades were brothers through everything. Gonna miss the Grand Tour.
So true they will be missed😢🫡🫡
Ecco perso il compagno che ti copriva le spalle....ora ti senti perso non hai piu il sentimento giusto....ti sei spento😢prova a scrivere cosa provi in questo momento
Late March of 2024. I'm now 71. This song carries on to the current day. Truly one of his best. Thank you Mark Knopfler.
I feel ya. 72 here any day now. This song makes me tear up 🤔 ☮️✌️
This song always makes me cry...
Mr Knopfler was simply outstanding. He is a true artist.
Me too….I dedicate this song to all my Airborne Brothers in Arms , until that day I walk through those huge wooden doors into the great hall of Valhalla……I think of you everyday and night…..Airborne…..❤
He JAMMED !
We're in the year of 2024 - And this Dire Straits Song Is Timeless. 🫡✌️🫡🇬🇧
klopt
Yes it is.
Masterpiece incredible ❤
Listen to it at least once a week. ❤🇧🇻
Yes, it is. They do not make music like this anymore. Pink Floyd, the Who, Dire Straits, and some other epic bands. It is as if all nowadays music is soul- and meaningless. Just electronic noise. With some exceptions of course….
Whoever chose this for The Grand Tour deserves a bonus. Absolutely awesome.
Awesome 👍
Agreed, wholeheartedly 💗
What an epic end for GT.
Probably Clarkson to be fair. All the music is his taste.
@@final_mile_music9713 Maybe Clarkson, more likely Andy Wilman
My step dad just died this was his funeral song rest in piece to the strongest man I've ever knew
That last scene was too emotional
This track was the only logical choice. I'm glad they went with it
😢
Perfect song for the scene. Also lost my best friend in september '22... He loved Dire Straits. I'm a bit emotional yes but hey... Thank you Jeremy, Richard & James. I'm 28 now and loved TG from the beginning. I made tens of English class essays about you. :D Most importantly; rest in peace Olli. A man couldn't have asked for a better buddy. Miss ya brother ❤️
🤷 *WhaT last scene.!?* 🧐
@@TheAGODAMI the scene where the boys were driving up to Kubu Island
They don't understand their impact on billions of petrolheads. They were like friends to us. Thank you Clarkson, Hammond, and May.
More like family
Dude, theyre us. They know.
Dire Straits is a legend
So very true!
Because..."SHINBONE WANTS STATEHOOD"
Thank you Clarkson,Hammond and May for giving me a little happiness and this gem of a song.
It has been one hell of a ride. The trio cant be replaced - and this song was the perfect ending. The whole episode is one of the best they did. Dont be sad its over - be happy that it happened.
I never thought I'd get so emotional at the ending, thank you boys for the years of entertainment
Legend 😥😥😥
What a song to leave the show on, true British car entertainment at its best 👌
They really did help so many of us little insignificant people get a scrap of happiness 😊 we will always have the memories
WE ALL GAVE SOME , BUT SOME GAVE IT ALL. Thank you to anyone who served . You are my brother's and sisters . And to the ones who did not make it back wait for us on the other side .
I’m 15 and I lost my dad in august. I remember warm summer nights sitting outside listening to this song among others. He would always tell me that when he passed every time I here this song I’d think of him. I wasn’t expecting to lose him so soon. Cancer is a terrible thing. It slowly destroys you from the inside out. Watching him fade away until he was just a skeleton of his old self is the hardest thing I’ve ever witnessed. This song helps me to remember the dad I loved, the happy, loving, smart man that raised me. I don’t like to remember him in the later stages of cancer, that wasn’t him. I miss you dad... I’d give everything to have you back for even a second :’/
Well said
He’s always with you, in your heart and soul my friend
Sorry for your loss Alcazar 😔 😢 I lost both my parents CANCER its a terrible disease and nobody should have to go through what our parents have been through. God bless 🙏 my friend. Don x
Sorry for your loss. I lost my mother to cancer ten years ago so I know your pain.
Watching them waste away is heartbreaking.
Oh man. How utterly shit. So sorry.
Lost my son to cancer and he loved dire straits
R.i.p Harry
Rip Harry😢
R.I.P harry.
May his soul be blessed.
R.i.p Harry
🖤🖤🖤🕊
RIP Harry
May you rock on brother!!!!
I can't hear this the same ever again after the Grand Tour finale. What a journey.
Godspeed James Jeremy and Richard. If anyone didn’t cry at the final scene of The Grand Tour, you have no heart. Thank you for the past 22 years.
The Dire Straits are a timeless band.
it's : dIRE sTRAITS *without the THE'* and yes they are! i was born before the 80s so I know! Mark Knopfler is a REAL Legend! and Artist too
Facts
I agree, bro
And Supertramp
And this song can be considered timeless because it fits so well with any who have fought the wars through time. It especially makes me think of those wonderful people of the "Great Generation". I am seventy five years old, and they were my mentors as I grew up. Now they are almost all gone, and I miss them all. The guys who were vets lived the horrors they had witnessed in their dreams at night. Their wives would tell my folks, or even myself this, because the wives lived the broken sleep also. And yet, through all they had lived, they remained loving and caring people through the remainder their lives. This song truly represents these people for me. And the last lines are so hard hitting.
"...every man has to die.".
The most powerful line in any song I've ever heard IMHO.
Definitely a powerful one! For me it was: "We are fools to make war on our brothers in arms." It portrays the senselessness of war and the infinte amout of suffering it creates...
@@Chrisoric I agree wholeheartedly with you there.
@@Chrisoric you are so f***ing right!
@@Chrisoricit’s written in the starlight and every line in your palm, we’re fools to make war on our brothers in arms ❤ really powerful and true. It’s in our dna to not make war, karmically devastating
@DiegoGarcia-nk8cj Well?
As a Vietnam combat vet, this tune really resonates with me. Mark Knopfler is one of the most underrated guitarists and songwriters ever, in my humble opinion.
I don't think he can be described as "underrated", unless that word means something different these days.
top man MarkD- English Patriot
You are what? Ahahahah stop man please ahahahahahaha
Dear Mark,
This song grips and touches every person that has served. Every time I listen to this masterpiece, it brings tears to my eyes. Its a truly timeless piece of art that expresses what you and I lived true. Combat brings up the best and the worst in us humans. The duality of live. Peace brother.
тебе наверное. уже много лет, друг?
Goodnight
Jeremy , Hammond and May ❤
Thank you for raising us
Thank you Jezza, Hamster and Captain Slow for everything
Orangutan*
Mr slowly
By..gio..sss..primo...italy...no..alla..guerra.. pace...pace....pace..ciao..by..gio.sss..primo...ciao..
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 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'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
thx sang along
Thank you 🙏
♥️
Thank you!!
In the name of all russians, ukraines, and maybe belarus.
Obrigado!
My dad was dying of cancer and asked me to make sure this song was in his funeral. I lost him 5 days after his diagnosis due to sepsis. Me and my brother proudly carried him to this song and I come back to it every time I miss him. Amazing song
"Amazing song"? Yeah...it really is!!!
Honestly...I may not have ever known your father...and do not even know YOU...! But his last wish...and also the fact, you carried him to this song, it demands respect!!!
Blessings to you sir.
@@JohnDoe-vj2yy all of e
I don't know why but that's my father favourite song too. He is 58 years old. There is something beautiful in this song.
This terrible cancer, I known what it means, my best friend was dying of cancer, my thoughts are at you and all people suffering of this disease. I can't understand what happenes in the world, how much people must die in war, so much money for weapons.. We could better give it in the health system.. In great solidarity, take care on you.. 💚
You don't know the happiness you brought to millions of people. Thank you Clarkson, Hammond and May.
I lost fellow soldiers. I have lost a son. I have lost a father. Somehow this haunting song brings them back to me briefly. One of the only things left that can bring me to tears.
R.I.P
I know the feeling my friend , I lost some friends in the Angolan bush war. God Bless.
Made it all about u bro ...grrrr
just love
Bubba I know this feeling too - I'm crying right now as the memories of the Falklands flood my mind. Especially carrying out a mate on my back as he was dying. Fk those 2 Sisters!! Per Mare Per Terram 42nd
Brothers in Cars , I am going to miss them . Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond and James May . Thank you for the show .
Goodbye Clarkson, Hammond & May.
Some songs aren't just songs. They are emotions. And everytime you revisit , it's then you'll realise that memories never fade.
100%
Verdade!
Exactly…makes me too emotional
So true, so very true ...!!
👍👍👍
People, we are brothers in arms......
сомневаюсь в вашем заявлении.Одно могу сказать никакой бункер не спасёт от ядерной войны,бункер только отсрочит.И только в фантастике возможно что мы!, выжевем,радиация убивает в течении ни 100 лет а больше,и продуктов,воды,воздуха,фильтров и так далее не хватит для выживания даже небольшого количества людей!
We are fools to make war !!!!!!!
4:09
love to listen to the music and words ....
🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
I'm listening, ❤❤❤ From Sweden.
Brother's and sisters this song is hope and life let yours be it too
I hope WE ARE!!! & WE'll ALWAYS BE!!!
Who else is here after 22 years of TV motoring?😭
Such a fitting send off for May, Hammond and Clarkson!
so many funny memories!
To future generations.....Don’t let this masterpiece ever be forgotten
Tells a story we must never forget. Great words mate.
@@andrewatkins1635 Back atcha, Andrew!
Will tell them.
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i´m 16 and i´m in love with this masterpiece
This song will never get old - it is so full of emotion, not just the message/the words, but the guitar is literally crying at points and you can really appreciate how real and raw this song is on so many levels. A true masterpiece.
Well said.
a true live masterpiece
I lost my best friend today , my brother.
@@ewaguzinska7228 przykro mi Ewa. Pozdrawiam serdecznie i łączę sięw bółu
Už v roce kdy tato píseň vznikla jsem věděl že zasáhne do hodně životu na téhle nasi planetě. Zemi .Díky.
I was a young journalist working in Central America when this came out. During that terrible time this song was a powerful secular hymn to me, and it still has the power to draw an old man's tears.
Friends and family die in the civil war in el Salvador, this song is just amazing.
And some old men still have tears when we hear it.
Me to, in tears just remembering old days...missing and regretting all the lost and wrong choices 😔
Were you in El Salvador?
@@ericjohnson8326 No, I was mostly based in Honduras along the Nicaraguan border. Early in the morning we'd ride out in a helicopter, looking for shooting. This album would be playing on my Walkman, which dates me.
I was later in Panama for that party.
Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hamond…. Jezza, Captain slow and Hamster… Thank you so SO SOO much, Thank u so much for creating an amazing televisionn program… Thank you for the best 22 years in my live… (even tho i have been existing for just 20 now but that doesnt mather) Thank you 3 so much… we love you ❤❤❤
The Grand Tour, our last ride together my friends.
it’s so sad. Why so early.
@@CarelBremer-qq4nvits more of a perfect time to quit
The Horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep.. one last time
Mark's voice tells the story
The guitar expresses the pain...
Perfectly analysing
Fact❤
Like I ever said: he has the guitar who crys... A genius 🙌🕊️
those are the words i've been looking for. Could not have put it better.
1989. I sat with my only son and we held hands listenng to this piece, enjoying the moment. A week later he was dead, having taken his own life on his 17th birthday, using my 12 bore,. I still listen to this piece, sitting there, holding his hand.
I am 32 years old now. I was merely 21 when I was deployed to Afghanistan. Next to me sat a younger boy -none of us were men then, men know what they're doing, we didn't- named Alex. He was only 19. Alex was an orphan, just another lost soul sent to fight for a country that never cared for neither him, neither any soul it sent to its doom. Alex and I began nervously talking and before the plane landed, we were inseparable. We became the closest of friends over the course of our time in Afghanistan, we had to learn to kill and accept death. It wasn't easy, nothing was, but at least, in the middle of all the crap that went on, we had formed a friendship, a friendship so strong I dare say it was almost a brotherhood. I loved Alex both as a friend and as the younger brother I never had -and apparently was never meant to have. I felt responsible for him, felt like I had to teach him things I didn't even know myself. Most of all I cared for that boy more than I cared for myself. Alex died 11 years ago today. He dove on an Afghan grenade, saving my life and 12 others. Born a zero and died a fucking hero. The word "hero" is the least I can say to describe him. But they didn't talk about him on tv, they didn't give him a medal and they just forgot about him. Just another lost soul never finding its way. I was sent home a little after all that. A taxi took me from the airport and took me back to my family. This is the first song that played on the taxi ride. Needless to say, I burst out crying right then and there. I had lost people in my life, but nothing hurt more than the loss of Alex. Thinking about it years later, I believe that this song playing on the radio was a signal from Alex up in the sky, telling me that he finally found his peace beside God, and telling me not to worry about him and go on with my life. Anyway, wherever you are, Alex, I miss you, my brother in arms...
RIP Alex 09/09/2010.
Oh, man.
I know it’s not the same but I just wanna say it.
My father said
*”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 in your palm*
*My brother in arms.”*
At his best friends funeral which he has known since he was a 7 year old boy as well as his other friend. They grew up in a small village in Congo which people found odd when he tells them about it because he is white but he is Belgian and they had colonised Congo so I assume it’s why they were there, he is now 53. They called themselves the 3 musketeers, Kris(*the one who has died*),Lawrence my dads other best friend and my dad Thierry. The 3 of them went to school together, shared a room with each other at boarding school. They all grew up together. Everything they did they did together. His father was an abusive alcoholic and died when my father was 9 while his mom was in hospital with cancer which she overcame but died 3 years later from TB so he didn’t really ever have family, but he told me that the 3 of them were brothers. Whether they were blood or not. After school they would go down to the river and get on their little wooden sail boat that they borrowed from a local fisherman with a few friends. There were crocodiles and hippos there but they didn’t care, they were young and foolish but they had fun. One of his friends had a brother who had gone missing, 3 days later one of his arms were found on the banks of the river(irrelevant, I know). The 3 musketeers later went to Belgium to finish their studies so they could make it one day, when they had finished they all moved to South Africa because they missed Africa, but it wasn’t the same kind of Africa. When they came here they had very little money so the 3 of them rented a small apartment and stayed in it together. They searched tirelessly for jobs and my dad and Kris found jobs here, they both became engineers, the other friend Lawrence went back to Belgium because he couldn’t get one here and later found one there. Kris introduced my mom to my dad and he is the reason I,my brother and my sister exist. He was the one who had wanted a family the most out of the 3 of them, he had many girlfriends in the past , he ended up finding the right one who unfortunately may not have been and they got engaged and a few months later she died in a car accident. Years past, my dad and Kris had some fights and didn’t see each other for a few months but they resolved their problems. He finally found the person who would become his wife and start a family with. They tried many times to have children but she had some problem with her which was preventing her from getting pregnant, they went to doctors and tried to sort out the problems and after some time they finally managed to have children, 2 daughters 1 year difference in age. The 3 musketeers still saw each other often even tho the one lives in Belgium who also has a family of his own now and the other lives almost 2 hours from us. They all made it and were successful in life but Kris seemed to be an unlucky man, he then got COVID when working on some project in Congo which is ironic. The last time the 3 of them were together was 2 years ago because of COVID/ lockdown. Lawrence and his family came here because it was Kris’s 50th birthday. That was the last time we saw Kris. He died on the 16th of August 2, 2021, 2 days before my dads birthday and the same day my dad had a heart attack 7 years ago. After being in hospital fighting COVID for nearly 2 months, my mom called me to come downstairs and I had the feeling something was wrong and I saw my mom and dad standing in the kitchen, they told me that Kris had died just before my mom started crying, my dad tried to act strong like always but at the dinner table halfway through dinner he just started crying, I had never seen my dad cry in my entire life, I am 17. He had multiple infections and organ failures and my father wasn’t allowed to visit him but it would have been pointless because towards the end he was tired and looked deathly ill and was mostly sedated, a week before he died his wife went there and kept telling him he will be fine and he will make it but with the little strength he had , he shook his head and said no his wife Charlene told us, he asked to see his girls who are 5 and 6 but they weren’t allowed in.
They are now currently with us as his wife is suicidal and has gone to some institute to try and get help because she doesn’t know how to carry on.The girls don’t seem to understand what death is and that he isn’t coming back because they say “my daddy died and that’s why we aren’t at home but we waiting for mommy and daddy to come back” They don’t seem to be upset but they keep saying they miss mommy and daddy which hurts me to hear and I think it hurts my dad more as his friend isn’t here but his 2 daughters are and they will grow up without knowing their father like my dad did. My dad had to carry the coffin and do the eulogy which is when at the end he said those words because Brothers in arms was Kris’s favourite song.
But now *The 3 musketeers are no more*. I am writing this with tears in my eyes as I find it very upsetting, I had to watch the funeral online as your are only allowed 50 people in a venue. My dad put his hand on his coffin and patted it and said something which he says is just for Kris. The rest Kris’s family couldn’t fly here because of restrictions so they had to do a funeral in Belgium without the coffin. We had to watch it online. Lawrence did the eulogy too but he broke down at the end. It was in french so I couldn’t understand but my dad could. He was very upset for the rest of that day and didn’t say a word, I think it re enforced the fact that he is gone and there is no changing it and you can’t do anything.
My dad is now depressed and he doesn’t know what to do with his life which is upsetting for me and my family but the words he said in the eulogy
*“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 in your palm*
*My brother in arms.”*
I will always remember those words.
My dad has tears in his eyes when he listens to this song now. He says when it’s his turn he wants his song to be
*Blood Brothers*
By Bruce Springsteen because Lawrence will be
the last one.
Rip Kris.
I know it’s not the same, I don’t know what it is like for you as I didn’t go to war and lose someone I was so close too like that so abruptly and in a way like that, and then for him to not even get the recognition that he deserved but I’m sure the people he has saved will always remember what he did and will forever be grateful as they were able to return to their families because of his sacrifice. Many people have gone to early before their lives even really started and it isn’t fair.
I have never had a friendship or a bond like you guys have so I will unfortunately never know.
But my favourite part is when he says
Let me bid your farewell
Everyman has to Die.
It's difficult to even imagine the pain you've gone through and ofcourse ur brother in arms
And rip to the afghans that ur brother killed to be fair.
Thanks Clarkson, Hammond and May. I teared up at the last scene.
RIP to all fallen Brothers in Arms..
@@harryf788fuck war
@@luckyhunter5291 Grow up ,drama queen
@Andrzej Jasinski cool
@@harryf788 rip, but how can he, wasn't the song published years after the war was over? no offense btw just trying to explain this contradiction
RIP...
Just lost my dad hours ago. This was one of his all time favorite songs
Rip to your Dad. Bet he loved you lots
Rip, god bless u and ur fam 🖤
Sorry for your loss bro , if you wanna talk i will be there
Sorry for your loss mate
May he rest in peace... wish you the best...
One of the best, most emotive songs ever written. Thank you, Dire Straits.
Questa..canzone..ha...un..grandissimo...significato...per...me...ciao...by...gio..sss...primo...Milano...italy...ciao.....
Класс _это шикарноЯ!!!!@@@@!!!!!!!@!!!@!!@@@@@
I agree. Cannot listen to this without tears.
My dad loved this, now i love it too, thank you dad and The Grand Tour
I served for over 2 decades in the Army and I lost to many brothers in arms. I cannot begin to express how emotional this song makes me particularly today (11 Nov.)
Brother, I wish you well and hope you're happy in life.
With you my brother..
Thankyou.xx
This came on in the car today (18th November) and it made me realise that, with all of the other things going on in the world at the moment, I had not taken particular note this year of Armistice Day, which made me feel sad and guilty.
Then I realised that the people that we are honouring would probably far rather hear this than two minutes of silence, so I skipped it back to the start, cranked it up, and took the long way home: It is because of their sacrifice that I could do this.
As a free civilian: Thank you and your Brothers & Sisters for your sacrifices.
Rip fallen comrades
11.11.2023....still having goosebumps listening to this breathtaking song. We will remember them 🌺
Same here in Norway. If the world leaders just have listen to this masterpice. Peace❤❤
nice people still know better .. Peace to all
Ye on the 11/11 ❤
2023 🎉❤
Да
I was five when my eldest brother went to Viet Nam. He came back - but was always a broken man. This song gets to me with its beautiful lyrics and haunting melody.
I'm sorry 😔
@@joanabarbosa2000.... Why are you sorry.... You didn't even know him
Respect for those that saw things that they can never unsee…😢
@@kellyboon4918That’s not empathetic. You clearly do not understand humanity.
I'm sorry about the loss of your brother 😢
We are all here for different reasons. But the love is the same.
lyrics
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 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'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
slava Ukraini
@@Medionxtr giroim slava🇬🇪
💛💙♥️🇺🇦♥️💛💙
we're fools to make war of our brothers in arms
@@Medionxtr Thats not the only country suffering
Slava Ukraini!
my father was a soldier, dead on the battlefield. This is also dedicated to his soul. I love you Dad.
God bless.x
we're all together in this bullshit life, respect to your old man
@@wreccen unfortunately you're right, thank you
Respect to your father :).
Respect to your old man ❤️
Having been a soldier, and gone to war, this song absolutely resonates to me. My Regimental colleagues were my brothers in arms, but actually the enemy also were, in a sense. They’d been sent there by politicians, and so had we. And we had respect for them. Just ordinary fellows, doing what they’d been told to do.
This song came out back when I was a teenager, and it always remind me of the feeling of being drafted (it was compulsory army service back then where I live). We soldiers would hum this tune, it spoke to us on a gut level what an actual war would be like, sitting there in the freezing trenches looking up at the stars.
Thank you, with all my heart, for your sacrifices. Sending you so much love and healing prayers. God bless you all 💚🕊🙏
Yes, absolutely. As I've said before, endless war for endless profit. And our soldiers paid for it with their lives. Unconscionable.
Если вдуматься, вы написали страшную вещь. Люди не должны убивать друг друга
That is the way of this world. Old men talking and young men dying. Nothing will ever change my friend. Thank you for your service. 🇮🇪
May the "Petrol Head TRINITY" Of Jeremy, James and Richard Live On For Ever and Ever
This song is almost 40 years old and the lyrics are more important than ever before...
Been there and done it, we have absolutely no business going back. imo
this song is all i can think about since the invasion’s inception...devastating xx all my love to the people of ukraine xx
Absolutely. Listening February 2022
The song from The Scorpions, “Wind of Change” was my second war song, how I would love it see no more unnecessary war.
This is the song that I often to revisit, since it appeared in 1985. Today, a special sad moment, I listen this song again.
Im not usually emotional, but this song really hits me hard. Classics like this will be remembered forever.
Thursday night Canada 2 am thinking about where my life went I'm 53,wow
I been listening to Johnny cash lately.his song hurt is summing up how I feel
So you think in 10,000 years people will be listening to this? (Obviously the species won't last another 1000 years)
Only if You and I (we all) keep it alive!
@@craigfalconer7152 you have failed
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 earn 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 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 are fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
Thank you
+Tihomir Dubravec
You did not *desert* me
i always thought it was " and youre no longer bound to be brothers in arms "
Is it not you did not desert me my brother in arms?
+Savage *420* I thought so
Jeremy, James & Richard really were brothers in arms for all 22 years they entertained us on TV. After all they’ve done for us they deserve knighthood!
Thanks you three for everything! ❤🏁
One of the greatest mood songs ever written, on one of the greatest albums ever written. No one will ever touch the 1980s, may its spirit in us never die!
*Sometimes, it’s not the song that makes you emotional; it’s the people & things that come to your mind when you hear it*
Plutôt, le son des 7 cordes.
It's true...
It's true...
Goofy I totally feel you, I was 11 years old when my father passed on. I'm 56 now you never totally get over the pain and loss. Keep in mind he and ancestors before him follow you and live the best life you can with love in your heart and compassion for others.
So true, first time I ever heard this song was, when we found out we were heading to desert shield, that's what they called desert storm before the war started, a guy from Maine said I got something we all need to hear, he played this song an we all started crying, never cried while listening to a song in my life, we all hoped an prayed we see each other again after if was over, an thru god's mercy we did, still talk to some to this day
I always had a special view of this song: My great-grandfather fought in WW2. One day, he got really sick (the flu or whatever), and was send to a field hospital a few kilometers away. He recovered unusually fast and as he was on the way back to the frontline, he was told that his whole Platoon had been killed. He saw his disease as some kind of miracle, but was of course still devastated. The lyrics represent exactly what he must have gone through, and him getting sick is the only reason I'm alive today, what always comes into my mind when listening to this
God bless him n u 👍
War is a terrible thing my friend, but as a Christian Jesus Christ wanted you alive today so he could get to know you !
Your beautiful comment brought me to tears. My dad fought in WW2. He had stacks of books on the subject, and it was like he was trying to find a reason, or an answer he could live with. He was captured and was a prisoner of war. The only thing he ever told me was that he accidentally shot a woman. It haunted him. I so wish he was still alive so I could tell him how much I love him.
He's flying high now
Your comment strikes my heart. My father was in WWII. He broke his ankle when the Jeep he was a passenger in rolled into a ditch. His platoon went on. When he recovered, he was assigned to guard German POWs because he spoke some German. We read many books about WWII together and would discuss them. I don't think that he could ever process the whole thing. I wonder would I have even existed but for a car accident. I also wonder why we humans cannot learn from history.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
In 1984 a friend who was the only person in Cleveland who cared about an immigrant playing basketball and teaching my first lesson in playing Golf 18 pot gave me this casset as a parting gift to collage.
In the early 90's went back to the visit and surprise him. Knocked on his door and his mother answered the door and when I asked If Daniel still lives there, she burst to crying telling me that he had passed and not one of his friends has ever stop by the house. I was shocked and asked if I can go to his room and cry.
His room was the same with the same posters.
😭
Till today I still have his gift.
Daniel, my brother, Brothers In Arms, forever. May your memory be for a blessing bro.
🙏
Oh my ❤❤❤❤❤❤ and his poor mom!!!!
Rjn, obrigada por tua generosidade em compartilhar deste sentimento...💎💙✨🇧🇷
Obrigada por compartilhar seu luto conosco. Fiquei com muita pena dessa Mãe 🥲
Sorry for your loss my friend. ❤from England
We are like a vapor 1 minute we are here and the next minute we are gone.
Your friend Daniel lives in your heart.
The cassette he gave you was Bob Seger ?
Carry him with you wherever you go.
Because sometimes the road is dark and you will need a friend to walk with.
The Grand Tour reminded me of this gem. One of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded.
Godspeed The Orangutan, The Hamster and Captain Slow!
And on that bombshell... goodbye
Remember hearing my father listening to this song when I was a kid. Little did I know how personal this would get.
Love you pops, see you one day
Consciousness is forever, Love is eternal.
Anders Hermansen sorry to hear that man
its also my grandfarthers favorite song and money for nothin luckily hes still here
Me too. Dad loved dire straits Now I do too. I have my dad's taste in music. Dire straits, pink floyd and so on 🤘
Anders , He is with you always and forever !!!
This song.....still a masterpice.............tears roll every time. Memories of those who paid the ultimate price, and for those who did not give up the struggle!
30 years have gone by, and this incredibly sensitive piece of art still moves me to tears. The minimal-yet-deep lyrics, the almost-whispered singing as if mourning a loved one, the crying guitar riffs that sting the heart in perfect contrast to the restrained singing, the church-like synth cords, the soft drumming and caressing bass line - all accompanied by one of the classiest animation-videos of all times... this is the ultimate lamentation on the sheer display of human stupidity which we call war.
perfect interpretation
+Sundeep Photay Perfect response. I could not in any way have put it better :)
Well said!
+אלעד דניאל Well said ! The only time I think all humans will come together will be if we are all under attack (e.g. from aliens, or by an incurable virus like Ebola)
you are an incredibly sensitive piece of art.
you didnt bring us a little bit of happyness - you brought us all the joy in the motoring world. Thank you, 3 middle aged men of Wales, Birmingham and Doncaster:)
This must be one of the best songs ever written. What a masterpiece. Still gives me goosebumps.
Agreed.
Me too!
I'm listening this song few times a day and always crying because of my father in law who died last year, He was the one who showed me this song for the first time...
Moves me to tears every time. In my top ten all time favourites. Yes, a true masterpiece, timeless
Absolutely
A song more relevant now than ever...
(Not downplaying what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Checnya, Palestine, Georgia, and what is still happening in Syria and Yemen).
Yes, now. Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
@@byronharano2391 I am with you stay strong
Can't believe we doing it...
Putin will now end this 8-year war! What do you say about the 14,000 deaths in Donbass over the past 8 years? Died at the food distribution or on the way to school.
Just thank the US who infiltrated Ukraine for their geo interests.
@@BananenrepublikDE Das boot
This song makes me think of my cousin who was a NYC firefighter on 9/11/2001 going up the stairs with a hose on tower 1 trying to help people when the building went down. He didn’t have a weapon, just a hose. It makes me think of him and all his brother and sister firefighters who lost their lives trying to help people.
🥲
A true hero!
I'm so sorry such bravery and sacrifice 🕊️💔 love from us in the UK
Utmost respect, to your cousin, and all people around the world, who make the ultimate sacrifice, trying to help and protect others. The very best of the human spirit. 🙏🧡
He died a hero
And so this song heralds yet again, as before, the end of an era. To Clarkson, Hammond, and May…thank you.
It's 2024 and this song is still a banger ❤
“The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." - Georg Hegel
❤
❤
Yee
And never will !
Fare the well Clarkson, Hammond, and May , thank you for all those years
Forever in heart!
Happy to have opportunity live in such good times)
Stop asking what year everyone’s listening in. This song is timeless.
@timharnans
Yes, I agree with you. What a dumb question!
I wish they'd get banned lol
Kids looking for *likes" and a cheap dopamine hit.
Nah memories take one back what we were doing n up to back in the day
2024
Jesus what a Masterpiece. Thank God for Mark Knopfler and his singing guitar
MK is just something special, he knows how to write an emotive song and then blows us away with the guitar
delbroox what a great song
Yeah. Masterpiece indeed.
delbroox classic mate. brings tears to my eyes. No lie.
Jackie Bayliss h
Never got tired of listening to this song during 40 years!! Thank you Dire Straits for this masterpiece!!
It's incredible, at that time we never imagined that good music would disappear, that's why these jewels are still intact 40 years later!
А не хуй бля соваться куда не надо. Не ваша земля
My brother gives his life for our freedom before 32 years. Than you Marijo J. R. from Croatia 🇭🇷
God bless him and all who have died and fought for freedom. I was USAF. Vietnam vet and a hundred other no name places. Thank God we still have men and women in this world willing to fight for freedom, like your brother did. God rest his soul.
SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS HES WITH GOD ALMIGHTY NOW AND FOREVER...😢
Thanks Jeremy, thanks Richard, Thanks James.
thank you for shaping me, not only automotive, but also worldview, thank you for growing up with you from the age of 7. The fact of transience is sad, your end has once again made me realize how short life is, and how much we have to appreciate every moment. Chapeaus bas gentlemen! thank you
This song is hauntingly beautiful -- each time I hear it, some new feeling emerges and touches a different part of my heart.
Yes, feel the same way, really really do..!!
Every time I listen to it, something new awakens in my heart and from time to time a tear escaped from my eyes.
Couldn’t agree more
I believe that somewhere in the world there are people who feel the same emotions that I feel when I listen to this beautiful song.
Yo los vi en directo en un concierto y cuando toco este tema el estadio se inundo de luces, fue por 1992 en Cáceres, nunca lo olvidare a este maestro de la guitarra.
I do
It's amazing that music and art can bring random people together from across the world.
was one of my dads favourites ..
Definitely I agree 👍 amazing song 🎶
Thank you, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, for all the laughs and for being there during the tough times. Your shows have meant so much to us, and we'll always cherish the memories 😢
My father loved this song, he was a soldier in life. He fought for what he believed in, and for his children. I miss him every day, but his suffering has gone. My brother in arms 💔
My fathers 1st piece of music on his funeral yesterday....he was carried in to this...he was 87 years old....and it has cut me to bits losing him....I hope I can carry on making you proud Dad🙏💔
live for Jesus..pray he is with Him!!!
Hey funk we r hear 4 u .moving forward is only baby steps wen u r ready ,all of grieve different so do not b hard on ur self xx
@@conniegomez1321 bless you xx
@@minimoose3235 Thankyou my friend x
@@heatherknutsford2101 Thankyou my lovely x
My dad passed away a few weeks ago. He requested this song at his funeral. It was a beautiful last farewell... Dire Straits was his favorite band.
Sorry for your loss.I hope you are doing OK. How lovely that you were able to play this for him.
Same for my grandfather pal
@@NihouNi hard times :p ... Keep smile ;)
Соболезную, такова жизнь
When my husband passed away in July 22,
We had this fantastic song at his funeral. Not a dry eye in the house. Such a moving song...still makes me cry. 🇬🇧🇬🇧😔
Thank you so much, Clarkson, Hammond and May. I've been watching you three for 22 years and it is so sad it is all over. They have been doing it for almost all of my life. This was the perfect song for the ending.
one of the greatest songs ever... a timeless masterpiece
SPOPictures John legend
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GaLimotion The only similarity between Birds of Paradise and Brothers in Arms is that they share the same key and almost the same tempo... other than that they're completely different in arrangement and structure.
Halleluja jef buckley
Not enough respect was paid to this song back then or now. It’s truly astonishing and the most beautiful homage paid to our fallen soldiers that was ever written……❤️❤️❤️
And, one of the greatest instrumental songs that I have ever heard.
This song is about NO War .. not about dead soldiers .
@@robmitchell1919 It’s actually about a soldier dying in The Falkland’s war….
@@Jacques-Le-Marois Thanks. Never knew that.
Yes indeed but it was also meant to denounce the tragedy of war, any war.@@Jacques-Le-Marois
this is one of the last songs my dad listened to before he committed suicide. I miss him so much everyday.
If you’re struggling, reach out. It’s not weak to speak.
R.I.P dad❤️
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May your dad R.I.P ✝️✝️✝️
It’s not weak to commit suicide, either.
❤
Oh my God, I’m so sorry. He must have been in the deepest pain, we can not imagine.
I confess I have battled with these thoughts for a life time. My heart breaks for you, for him. Damn it, I wish he could have stayed, but he just couldn’t.
Please accept my sincere condolences.
thank you very much Clarkson, Hammond and May for all your good memories. cheers, this one is for the road.
I lost my father and grandmother two weeks ago. This music just makes me feels so emotional. It's painful but also helps me cope
Sending love ❤️
Aunt / surrogate grandmother last Friday, grandfather seven months ago, and other lesser figures in the past several months. I feel your pain. May he rest in peace.
I'm so sory!rest in peace!
@@ailtonpaulinoratsbone8349 thanks very much
Carry on, brother. Let their memories be honored through your actions everyday. Live as they told you so.
One of the most deeply powerful anti-war songs I have heard. Wish it would reach more people right now.
Somewhat funny how that is close to exactly what went thru my mind and i was about to say that
this is my favorite song of Dire Straits. Do you listen russian or soviet union rock (not metal) groups? With best wishes from Saint - Petersburg🙂
There is an incoherence to this 'We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms', as if the 'we' is a world community (that doesn't exist). What about when others make war on you?
Is it really an ANTI war song tho ? Maybe it is but I never really took it to be such. Great sing I’ve listened to my whole adult life but I took it only as a telling of a story of war. To my knowledge the faulklands war , personally I’d say he wrote it in support of all the soldiers who fought there . That’s just my opinion tho ?
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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
Paulo Andrade 💪🏻🎶
Top answer to the meaning of life,G.x
We mostly live in a world of our own, but kinda expect this one world to be the way we want it to be lol
Paulo Andrade
It is obvious Knopfler started as an English/literature teacher when you hear his texts. Not many surpass him lyrics-wise.
Never forget the wars we fought, the people that died, and for what? May there be peace on earth, one happy day
This song means so much to me. My brother left this as part of his suicide note for me. We lived in Australia at the time and my homeland was the lowlands of Scotland. He was right I did return to my Scottish homeland. The line “I’ve watched you’re suffering” means so much to me because at the time I was battling a terrible drug addiction. I wish I could have been a better brother to him.
Jack Duncan I’m sorry to hear about your loss. Stay strong, hope it gets better for you soon ❤️
Sad to hear that mate. They say time heals everything, i hope so because the burden can be too heavy sometimes..be kind to others, try to make up for your shortcomings in relationship with your brother. May he rest in peace. Wish you all the best Jack.
mmdirtyworkz thank you. That’s good advice and very considerate of you. I’m trying very hard to be a better person. I haven t used drugs or had a drink for years now. Thanks once again.
Hermione Watson Thank you for your kind words. It means a lot to get such kind words from a stranger. It reaffirms my belief that people are mostly nice good.
Daughter of Enoch thank you
I can still feel the pain in every note. And it still brings tears to my eyes.
Yes, the division in our country is as bad as the war of 1861!
AMEN
I thought it was just me.
Por eso el dicho,que la música amansa a las fieras... supongo que hay mucha verdad en ello.
Yes, I feel like you.. Thinking of the victims of war, makes me very sad. I was a social worker, I saw children suffering of war in all countries.. And always the question "why"?
There are certain 80's songs that give me an overwhelming bittersweet sense of nostalgia. This is definitely one of them.
Me too
Maybe because the world was digging ourselves Out of the terrible nightmares of nuclear war. And yet it seems that we’re right back.
Exactly the sentiment im feeling at this precise moment !
The '80s was probably the last decade of incredible music ~diverse, multifaceted, glorious, celebratory, melodically beautiful, technically perfection and oh my God some beats that are Unforgettable. After about 94, which produced four of my favorite songs that also reflected those sorts of things I just mentioned and then it all seem to go downhill with very few exceptions. And those 1994 songs I realize could have all just as easily come out in the seventies or eighties and been right at home. For the sake of interest:
1. Mr Jones and me
2. The Mmmmm Song (I think that's what it's called, LOL)
3. I found out about you
4. Good vibrations, (Mark wahlberg)
Of course since then there have been some wonderful songs, but as a whole it's been pretty sucky. Jmo
This is not an 80's song, like Beethoven's 9th symphony is not an 19th century symphony but a classic symphony - this a CLASSIC song
Jezza, Captain Slow, Hamster. What an honor to have shared this experience with you. Left a void that no other will ever fill. Where ever your journey takes you, we all wish you the best. Thanks for two decades of an escape into a world of laughter, bliss, and joy.
Thank you Dire straits for this masterpiece. Just lost my brother in his battle with cancer! And this song has helped me to cope with such a loss.
💕
Your brother lives on and always be near you x
❤
I realy hope you find peace realy do 😇
This song man... it just gives me goosebumps. The lyrics, Mark's soft voice, the guitar "crying", it creates a perfect atmosphere that sends shivers down my spine. Imho, Mark Knopfler is the best guitarrist of all time. Not in speed or flashiness, but in taste and feeling.
its a perfect song man
I feel the same and think the same
spot on
Mark Knopfler & Dire Straits have played a huge part in revolutionizing music... this song is a solid proof!
You Are so fucking right 😉
the first time i heard this song, was when i was 11 years old. i was with my dad in the car when this song came up on the radio. my dad loves this song and he said 'ahh, this is a great song' and turned up the volume of the radio. it became my favourite song. i was listening it on repeat for months. aventually dire straits became my favourite band. few months later i started playing electric guitar because knopfler gave me that inspiration for playing music. for months i only played DS. i could see mr knopfler in real life in 2019 and i can defenatlly say it was the best day of my life.
he is still a hero for me.
🙂
My dad loved this epic song xx
😢😭💘
You go girl! Hope you still play the guitar!
👍
Thank you for the memories, Chaps! Clarkson, Hammond and May. You will be missed, this song was perfect for the ending! Not afraid to admit as a fully grown man I choked up a bit. After watching them for over 20 years together, it was like saying goodbye to three old friends for the last time!
My Dad, my hero, passed away in my arms a week ago, and as they were taking his body from his home, they played Dire Straits for him all the way to the funeral home. He loved this song, and this band. We listened to it together over the years since I was just a little girl, and it will always make me feel like he never left me. We may be living in different worlds right now, but I look forward to the day when I join you in yours Dad. I miss you more than words can describe. I love you… forever and ever
I know just how u feel...
I like to tell myself:
Goodbyes
Are not forever,
Are not the end.
They simply mean:
"We'll miss you, until we meet again."
((( hugs)))
All the best, Bianka! I lost my Mom a few days ago. ;(
So sorry,stay strong 🕊️