Romeo and Juliet by Indigo Girls

Love struck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
He’s laying everybody low
He’s got a love song that he made
He finds a convenient street light and he steps out of the shade
And he says something like,
“You and me babe, how about it?”

And Juliet says, “It’s Romeo! You nearly gave me a heart attack!”
“Yeah well.” — “He’s underneath my window” — “Now she’s singing” — “Hey la, my boyfriend’s back.”
“You shouldn’t come around here, singing up to people like that…”
“Aw anyway, what you gonna do about it?”

And Juliet, the dice were 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?”
Julie

We both come up from different streets
And they were both the streets of shame
You know they’re both dirty, both mean
Yes and even the dreams were the same
And I dreamed your dream for you
And, and now your dream is real!
So tell me honey
Now how can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

Now you can fall for chains of silver
And you can fall for chains of gold
You know you, you fall for pretty strangers
And the promises they hold
Well you promised me everything, and then you
And then you promised me thick and thin
And now you just turn away and say
“Romeo? I think I used to have a scene with him!”

Oh 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”
There’s a place for us, ha
I know you know this song
Now when you gonna realize
It was just that the time was wrong?

Julie
I’m so in love
So in love, yeah

But I can’t do the talk
Like they talk on my TV screen
I can’t do a love song
Like the way you sing to me
I can’t do anything but I would do anything for you
I can’t do anything except be in love with you

All I do is miss you and the way it used to be you know
And all I do is keep the beat
I keep bad, bad company
And all I do is kiss you
Through the bars of this rhyme
When Julie, I’d do the stars with you
Anytime

Oh 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”
There’s a place for us, ha
I know you know this song
Now when you gonna realize
It was just that the time was wrong?

Julie, Julie, Julie

Well this love struck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
He’s laying everybody low
He’s got a love song that he made
He finds a convenient street light and he’ll step out of the shade
And he says something like,
“You and me babe, how about it?”