dIRE sTRAITS - Ride Across The River (1985) [HQ with lyrics on screen]

"Ride Across the River" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits. It first appeared as the sixth track on the band's 1985 multi-platinum selling album Brothers in Arms. It is very different from the band's other works, with Latino-style beats and flutes. The lyrics are about wars (or the same war) described by two opposing views: one follows guerrilla members and the other follows mercenary warfare. At 6 minutes and 58 seconds, Ride Across the River is the fourth longest song on the album. The song opened the second side of the original LP. It was never released as a single. The song was used in the Miami Vice episode Knock Knock, Who's There? and The Last Ship episode El Toro. I'm a soldier of freedom in the army of man We are the chosen, we're the partisan Well 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, yeah And we don't give a damn a-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 Oh nothing gonna stop them as the day follows the night Right become the wrong, the left become 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 Gonna ride across the river deep and wide Ride across the river to the other side