You and Your Friend

"You and Your Friend"
Song by Dire Straits
Genre	Roots rock, soft rock
Length	5:59
Songwriter(s)	Mark Knopfler

"'You and Your Friend" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits and is the sixth track from the 1991 rock album On Every Street.

Release

The song was the fifth song to be released as a single. It was the final single overall released by the band. The single was only released in France and Germany.

Related interview

Mark Knopfler told in interview for "Musician": "I just liked the line. About the time we recorded the first record I had a song called "Me and My Friends." It was a Southern boogie thing about playing in the band. I never recorded it because it never really... "You and Your Friend" just has that thing. I like keeping it open for people to use in a way that they want. If you make it specific you spoil it. The song could be just a solitary cry for some kind of support — are you going to come around to my way of thinking? It could be sexual. One of the guys saw it as a complicated love triangle. It could be anything. But in fact that came from just the resonance of "You and Your Friend" instead of "Me and My Friends"."