Romeo And Juliet

Published: Aug. 20, 2015, 11:15 a.m.

Dire Straits, “Romeo and Juliet” (1980)

A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsusss serenade
laying everybody low, with a lovesong that he made
finds a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade
says something like: “you and me babe, how about it?”

Juliet says “hey it’s Romeo, you nearly gimme a heart attack!”
He’s underneath the window she’s singing “hey la, my boyfriend’s back
you shouldn’t come around here, singing up at people like that,
anyway - what you gonna do about it?”

“Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start
and I bet, and you exploded in my heart
and I forget I forget the movie song
when you gonna realise, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?”

Come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame
both dirty, both mean, yes and the dream was just the same

“and I dreamed your dream for you, and now your dream is real;
so how can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold
you can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
you promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin
now you just says ‘oh Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him ...’

Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
you said ‘I love you like the stars above I’ll love you till I die’
There’s a place for us, you know the movie song
when you gonna realise, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

I can’t do the talk like they talk on TV
and I can’t do a love song, like the way it’s meant to be;
I can’t do everything, but I’d do anything for you;
I can’t do anything except be in love with you.

And all I do is miss you, and the way we used to be
all I do is keep the beat and bad company
all I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme,
Julie, I’d do the stars with you - any time.

Juliet when we made love you used to cry
you said ‘I love you like the stars above I’ll love you till I die’
there’s a place for us you know the movie song
when you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?”