| Romeo & Juliet (Dire Straits, 1980) a lovestruck rome sings the streets a serenade laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made finds a streetlight, steps out of the shade sings 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 was 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 your dream is real 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 say 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 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 the 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 the bad company and all i do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme juliet 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 abouve, 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? and a lovestruck rome sings the streets a serenade laying everybode low with a lovesong that he made finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade says somethint like you and me babe how about it? [dedicated to R.V.] go to lyricspage go to mainpage go to discographys |
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