Dire Straits – Romeo and Juliet
A lovestruck Romeo sang the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made Finds a streetlight, steps out of the shade Says something like, «You and me, babe, how about it?»Juliet says, «Hey, it’s Romeo, you nearly gave me 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 into my heart And I forget, I forget the movie song When you gonna realize 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 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, yeah 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 you ‘til I die’ There’s a place for us, you know the movie song When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?»I can’t do the talks 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’ll do anything for you I can’t do anything except be in love with youAnd all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat, the 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 ‘til I die’ There’s a place for us you know the movie song When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?»And a lovestruck Romeo, he sang the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made Find a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade He says something like, «You and me, babe, how about it?»«You and me, babe, how about it?»