Office Music - Brothers In Arms

Nowadays I sometimes bring the headphones to work. Connected to these headphone is a cigarette lighter with 8GB of MP3's... Every now and then I replace the music in the MP3-player and I did that again last night. I just selected a number of complete albums and copied them. Stuff like Simple Minds' "Sparkle In The Rain(from before they became famous), Talk Talk's "The Colour Of Spring", This Mortal Coils's "It'll End In Tears", that kind of stuff.
     
Now, on a side note; I do kind of like Dire Straits. I find some of their stuff brilliant although a lot of it is a bit too boring for me. So imagine my pleasure when I discovered this morning that I had also copied 'Brothers In Arms', played it and found it to be the perfect background music while doing software engineering and analysis.

This album will be on my player for a while me thinks. Especially the song "Brothers In Arms". Still one hell of a song after all these years, and also a song that impressed me incredibly when it was used as the closing theme of a very sad episode of The West Wing.
                       

"These mist covered mountains

Are a home now for me

But my home is the lowlands

And always will be

Some day you'll return to

Your valleys and your farms

And you'll no longer burn

To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction

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"