The only music I did NOT hear and is surely one of the very great 'anthems' to sadly and dignifiedly commemorate battle and lost companions in war is Dire Straits 'Brother in Arms'?
Makes every point and with Mark Knopfler's eloquent guitar as the underflow, IMO it is hard to beat.
This is a live version and not the same as on any CD.
Listen to the words.
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 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 in your palm
We are fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
Songwriter: Mark Knopfler
Makes every point and with Mark Knopfler's eloquent guitar as the underflow, IMO it is hard to beat.
This is a live version and not the same as on any CD.
Listen to the words.
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 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 in your palm
We are fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
Songwriter: Mark Knopfler