Words & Music: Mark Knopfler
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A love struck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
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He's laying everybody low
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He's got a love song that he made
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He finds a convenient streetlight and he steps out of the shade
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And says something like
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"You and me, babe, how about it?"
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Juliet says, "Hey, it's Romeo!
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You nearly gave me a heart attack"
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Yeah well, he's underneath the window now she's singing,
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"Hey, la, my boyfriend's back
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You shouldn't come around here singing up to people like that"
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Oh anyway whatcha gonna do about it?
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Juliet
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The dice were loaded from the start
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And I bet and you exploded into my heart
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And I forgit, I forget the movie song
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Now when you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong
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Julie
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We both come up on different streets
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And they both were streets of shame
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Both dirty both mean
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Yes and even the dreams were the same
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Well I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real
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So tell me honey
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Now how can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals
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Now you can fall for chains of silver
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And you can fall for chains of gold
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You fall for pretty strangers
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And the promises they hold
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Well you promised me everything and then you promised me thick and thin
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But now you just turn away and you say,
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"Romeo, I think I used to have a scene with him
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Oh Juliet
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When we made love you used to cry
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You said "I love you like the stars above
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Gonna love you till I die"
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There's a place for us I know you know this song
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Now when you gonna realize
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It was just that the time was wrong
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Julie
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I'm so in love
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But I can't do the talk like they talk on my TV screen
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I can't do a love song not the way you sung it to me
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I can't do everything but I would do anything for you
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Ah no I can't do anything except be in love with you...yeah
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Now all I do is miss you
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And the way it used to be
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And all I do is keep the beat
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I keep bad, bad company
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And all I do is kiss you
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Through the bars of this rhyme
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When Julie, I'd do the stars with you
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Anytime
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Oh Juliet
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When we made love I used to cry
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I said I'll love you like the stars above
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I'm gonna love you till I die
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There's a place for us
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I know you know the movie song
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One day we're gonna realize
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It was just that the time was wrong
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Julie
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Julie
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Julie
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Now this love struck Romeo he sings the streets a serenade
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He's laying everybody low he's got a love song that he made
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And he finds a convenient streetlight and he'll step out of the shade and he'll
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say something like
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Romeo & Juliet
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Indigo Girls |