Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet Lyrics
Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet Lyrics

Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet Lyrics

A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade.
Laying everybody low with a lovesong 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 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 beg 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?

Well, 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 the 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 you ’till I die
There’s a place for us, you know in the movie song
When you gonna realize 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 the bad company.
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 above I’ll love you ’till 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 sings the streets a 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?”

…how about it?