![]() ![]() If you stay outside of these experiences, they’re just not going to translate to people.” ![]() I don’t think you can get away scot-free with these things otherwise, it’s just not going to work. So, in a sense you’re an outsider, but you’re also digging inside to do it properly. ![]() You have to experience, if a thing is really going to be realistic, if you’re gonna try and get whatever you feel across. “You can’t just write off the top of your head you have to dig deep to get those things. “’Brothers in Arms’ is sung by a soldier who is dying on the battlefield,” he said. In an interview with Bill Flanagan, Knopfler spoke about the need to get inside the character as a songwriter to do the story justice. But by keeping specifics out of the narrative, he makes the song a timeless treatise on the senselessness of war. It seems likely that Knopfler had the Falklands War, which took place in 1982 between the United Kingdom and Argentina, in mind when he wrote the song. With startling efficiency, he inhabits the soul of a wounded soldier who muses on his surroundings and waxes philosophical as his life ebbs out. What’s striking about “Brothers In Arms” is just how much Knopfler manages to convey in a minimum of words. ![]()
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