Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet
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A love struck Romeo, sings the streets a serenade,
Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made
Finds a street light, 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 my window', she's singing, 'Hey la, my
boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here, singing up to people
like that'
Anyway, what you gonna do about it?
Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start,
And I bet, then 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 even 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?
And 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, yeah you promised me thick and thin
Now you just turn away and say, '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'm gonna love
you till I die
And i forget, I forget, 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 the TV
And I can't do a love song, like the way it's meant to
be
And all I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet I'd do the stars with you, anytime
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
Said, there's a place for us, you know the movie song
When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was
wrong, Juliet?
A love struck Romeo, sings the streets a
serenade,
He's laying everybody low, with a love song that he made
Finds a street light, steps out of the
shade
And says something like, 'You and me babe, how about it?'
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