# explain this lyric to me and get a cookie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2001, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-lyric-to-me-and-get-a-cookie/68249 "2001-06-10T02:40:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-lyric-to-me-and-get-a-cookie/68249/21 "2012-10-30T17:48:05Z")
11 years old. Whoa. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-lyric-to-me-and-get-a-cookie/68249/22 "2012-10-30T17:49:17Z")
After 11 years, it’s probably a little stale. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-lyric-to-me-and-get-a-cookie/68249/23 "2012-10-30T18:02:11Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > After 11 years, it’s probably a little stale. This song never gets stale. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-lyric-to-me-and-get-a-cookie/68249/24 "2012-10-30T18:11:01Z")
Knopfler is underrated as a lyricist by many. Not by me. 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 Magic, that. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-lyric-to-me-and-get-a-cookie/68249/25 "2012-10-30T18:11:36Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > This song never gets stale. Can’t argue with that. I think I’ll put it on right now. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-lyric-to-me-and-get-a-cookie/68249/26 "2012-10-30T18:25:54Z")
Welcome to the SDMB, **garyhesson**. This thread has been inactive since 2001, which will explain some of the comments people have just made. In 2001, we did not have a separate forum for discussions on the arts; now we do, so I shall move this thither. **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator [moved MPSIMS --\> Cafe Society] ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-lyric-to-me-and-get-a-cookie/68249/27 "2012-10-30T21:57:05Z")
> [@garyhesson](#): > > Also for anyone concerned…Sings the streets a serenade…These words are contained in the liner notes on the original LP…“Money for Nothing” I don’t know what you mean by this. The opening line is written as “a lovestruck romeo sings a streetsuss seranade” in the 1980 album _Making Movies_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-lyric-to-me-and-get-a-cookie/68249.md?page=1)