The song was written by Steve Harris as a tribute to his deceased father and is a song consisting of various parts. This is a very typical Iron Maiden song with its constant change between calm, harmonic parts and rough metal parts. The vocals and the melody is one unit, made to fit with each other.
The song has a calm start with a slow bass and a very melodic guitar playing on top which make a nice foundation to the first part of the lyrics. Then the melody changes its pattern into a more staccato version of the first part, when the second part of the lyrics kicks in. Afterwards it transforms into a more open melody and the main chorus. The song continues repeated two times then it goes into another slow part and into the first guitar solo. After the solo the song goes into a bridge and another solo before the song ends in the same way as the intro.
The song is about how life can be changed in a split of a second and how we humans misuse our life’s to destroy each other through wars and conflicts. Instead of protecting what is precious. Steve Harris write of how we can lose they we care about in an instant and how he misses his father, which appears during the chorus: “We're blood brothers, we're blood brothers, we’re blood brothers, we're blood brothers”.
Link to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbcm8Ao9Vfg
Link to lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/i/iron+maiden/blood+brothers_20067944.html
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