Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet 1980

Romeo And Juliet
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 gimme a heartattack
He's underneath the 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 was loaded from the start
And I bet, then you exploded in 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 streets were 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 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?
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 me
I can't do everything, but I'll do anything for you
I can't do anything 'cept 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 bad company
And all I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet I'd do the stars with you, anytime
Ah 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 love struck Romeo, sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made
Finds a convenient street light, steps out of the shade
Says something like, "You and me babe, how about it?"
You and me babe, how about it?

[@Spot4art]

Remember MUSIC? Remember real talent? I do. Thank God we still can listen to this to this day.

[@lcsmith11]

Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way

[@Ryan-vg4wn]

There's still loads of talent. You just can't be lazy and have to find it yourself as theres much more choice (and by that, more music you don't like.)

[@lcsmith11]

@@Ryan-vg4wn Please enlighten us, I'd love to hear some of this great new music

[@Ryan-vg4wn]

Music is subjective - what you like isnt what i like necessarily, so without knowing what you like im at a loss. But you know that. Secondly. Stop being lazy and get with the times. We cant rely on radio or TV to tell us what to listen to and think. Lastly, stop being lazy, thats the problem with older generations - always wanting spoon fed.

[@squirrelbutler2119]

@@lcsmith11 Man, if you're not hearing great new music, you aren't even trying. This song is amazing, Mark Knopfler is crazy talented, but there's so much good music and great artists today, it's crazy!

[@monroemullinix5974]

If you watch his later versions of this song, you can see how his feeling about it changes. From hopeful, to indifferent, to regretful, to resigned nostalgia. There was a real person behind this song.

[@Team-fabulous]

You know its true

[@legolasgreenleaf-deceased2109]

Can you blame him though ! the Alchemy "live" version is quite perfect you promised me thick and thin, wow

[@mariacaceres462]

j

[@angerainbow9200]

Yes there was

[@stevebiggio9140]

It is a beautiful song. Well played.

[@gwennlong5915]

I get tears in my eyes every time I hear this song. Classic love song. A masterpiece

[@airborneyvb6544]

Hard to find a love song like this today.

[@FrLawRE]

This song is the best love song that's ever been written!

[@CarlosDavidbjj]

There is something about 80’s, was magic!

[@robinhood3863]

Concordo con te...eravamo giovani e sapevamo sognare...eravamo semplici e felici. E forse non sapevamo di esserlo. Oggi ci restano solo i ricordi. 😢❤

[@malcolmwhittle936]

In my opinion, the best song ever written. Thats a big statement.

[@squirrelbutler2119]

It's a great song A story Springsteen might have written, with virtuoso guitar playing (simple, but so sweet) A great song

[@anjou6497]

Thats not your only opinion. Me too !! 😂🎉

[@kanic12345]

2024 still my favourite song of all times

[@jamesmcnemar4165]

I got engaged to my first love Marci in1981. Between this song and Tunnel of Love I could and believe I still am in love with that beautiful Italian girl. This song is about her. I wish I could talk to her.

[@Vijayaandra0506Vijay]

அருமையான பாடல் Im 62 now it was the fantastic memory 80s

[@mrmercedes9020]

Takes me back to a very simple time in my life ...

[@djwbushcraftbusiness1016]

One of the best songs of all time

[@KP-dv7nw]

One of the best songs ever made . Rip chaza

[@brianlee3030]

Who ever is watching this is an absalout legend!!!!!!

[@theredseventhousand]

Why, yes. Yes I Am. 😎

[@sharona752]

tanks!

[@nirjaladarnal5706]

Yes indeed

[@mycallc]

Romeo & Juliet and Tunnel of Love. two of the best songs ever by the only guy who can make a guitar talk. No other guitarist has ever mastered the instrument in this fashion.

[@alexasaltz4229]

I absolutely love this song. Lyrical perfection.

[@SharonWineberg-ut6pr]

Listened to this full blast every day when i was 16 🥰

[@kevingill648]

One of my favourite Dire Straits songs! love it.

[@jamesharrer9971]

Mine too Kevin!!

[@jodicumming2069]

I love this song & it reminds me, of a guy that I used to go out with year's ago & has since passed away... I always carried a torch for you Ed & this song reminds me of us & what we could of had, had we not been so young & reckless. 🙏

[@carolesmith690]

My son and I were in a Hotel in Luxor,Egypt a few years ago when a resident guitarist started to play and sing this and no offence to Dire Straits it was the best version I ever heard. Made me cry I could barely eat. I wish I'd found out more about him!💕🥲

[@shantelchristian8815]

Best song ever was my dad's favourite song 2 dire straights sheer brilliance real music amigos

[@ZobethC]

“You and me babe, how about it?” 😍🥰😘

[@julieberry8523]

You shouldn’t come around here, singing up to people like that ❤️

[@TONY-gs7gf]

How about it

[@huntinnfishin2940]

@Mis Tery juliet

[@mikaylachapman9036]

@@julieberry8523 anyway, what you gonna do about it?

[@carolmurray187]

The first time I heard this my heart stopped for a second. Had never heard anything like it, it moved me so much. I was in my twenties and it was so emotional it took me decades to be able to hear it again. Music is sooo powerful.

[@stevefoulds2784]

Blows my mind to think that I'm as far away in time now from this song, this wonderful album, as my Dad was from his Tommy Dorsey and his George Shearing when I was listening to this originally back in 1980...where do the years go?

[@nikiandjanie8990]

He writes incredible love songs. Was my favorite band for a min in high school. 80’s. I now listen to knopfler more, and often. And now I’m overwhelmed when I hear songs like this. Hard not to cry.

[@bertbing3406]

I cry every time I hear this, and I'm a 48 year old man, Gulf War and Afghan vet, but jeeeez this is the greatest love song ever written and it'd take a harder man than me not to be moved - wishing you all a happy and healthy life x

[@Panbaneesha]

Hard? Try impossible. #StaySafe

[@shaynewilliams8204]

Mk is a walking talking singing legend.

[@BrysonGilbert-pw3df]

You snd me babe , how about it ? Brilliant in its simplicity . Great lyrics overall !

[@thegame9760]

Captures that feeling when a man truly loves a woman...even though he may know the time is wrong, yet the undying hope to reignite that spark pours out of the line - “you and me babe, how bout it?” Powerful...

[@Team-fabulous]

Amen brother...

[@jessrichardmoransee5468]

Great tune ❤

[@rabiyaallanova1363]

Probably the best live version for me,so emotional 🎸🎶❤️💯

[@scooterza]

The complete song! Amazing lyrics, amazing guitar, emotions. Wow!

[@glynismcdonnell7639]

I sang this everywhere...... those days were memorable. Got all Straits albums.

[@robertofaustinohibener842]

Tmb tenho todos os álbuns do Dire Straits.

[@effiehibshman800]

Such a romantic song. I want that love.

[@christinescarff4920]

Yes, but look what disaster befell the real Romeo and Juliet !

[@suzannesellers7383]

I first heard this driving very early in the morning . I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. Maybe it’s because I was sort of half sleepy, half driving and this magnificent piece on the radio. No other cars around, just me and Romeo and Juliet. I later found the song on Google.

[@kciLtniaP-q5h]

Tremendous lyric, arrangement, and of course masterful musicianship. There's everything in this that's supposed to be there if you wanted to pick it apart and study it. But you get all of that just listening to it.

[@bertbing3406]

The greatest love song ever written. Please give me another chance my Irish beauty, the love of my life....

[@nicolaaustin3500]

just that the time was wrong. Love this line

[@Raven135]

The most beautiful song ever. There is a live version with Clapton. Don't take that off your bucket list. It is truly amazing! Makes me cry...

[@ZobethC]

Maria Vlahon-Elgin makes me cry too. I can literally see their tragic love story thru this song.

[@virgilmalang2368]

This song affects me to this day...makes me think of love and loss..

[@lewismacfadyen5657]

Just listened to it, thank you

[@goonerbeau]

One of Knopfler's loveliest songs, and maybe his all-around greatest composition. "Romeo and Juliet" bridges Shakespeare, West Side Story and a modern rock 'n' roll love story where fame, not family, is keeping the young lovers apart.

[@johnbrain2093]

This album has a massive poignant significance in my life. Wow!

[@charlesyoung2197]

Absolute masterpiece

[@IshratNWahab]

When my 1month old baby won’t sleep in the middle of the night, I would play this song in the background to gently make him sleep ❤❤❤

[@theredseventhousand]

Absolute poetic and musical genius...

[@kingsleytsundzukanindubane319]

Dire straits forever!

[@elenarosalepera6399]

Wow fantastic song Romantic love this Song....

[@anjou6497]

Oh my word, as soon as i hear that very first picking.......🎉🍃🌱☕️💗

[@meadratt1928]

I saw them in 81 in Germany! Awesome live!

[@rockybaker126]

Brings back a lot of memories.

[@ohidontknow1061]

Yep, me too. A special occasion for a 16 year old me........ I wonder how Joyce is x

[@007JHS]

Hard to pick a 'best song' by Dire Straits... but this would come close to being just that... So many brilliant songs.

[@captainteach007]

There's no best Dire Straits song in my view. So many incredible songs they made - impossible to choose just one.

[@007JHS]

@@captainteach007 A very true comment.

[@anandpuri6741]

I listen to this every day , what a classic

[@marisameloni9021]

❤era gia al massimo cosi giovane la sua bravura è diventata unica inconfondibile grande Mark il migliore in assoluto ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@spacebound7247]

I truly love this. Any of you guys watch the show with mark and the AC/DC guy? Class programme. This song is legendary. He spoke and sang this. Certainly a different style. Legendary music. There will never be anything like this kind of music again.

[@gymrachel]

Beautiful song, always loved it. 💕🌹🎶

[@musicforme58]

Stirs me every time, love it

[@Rosie1987.]

Great lyrics but the music is even more beautiful.

[@jayneharris922]

Brings back memories of someone who was very special, I do realise the time was wrong, too much crap going off in my life that as a 15 year old I couldn't voice to a 17 year old boy 😢 The dice was definitely loaded against us, I'm so sorry

[@josuecoling6830]

Faz tanto tempo que eu a ouvi, mas até hoje sinto o mesmo que na primeira vez. Parece que essa canção tem alma.🎶A love struck Romeo sings the street so serenade 🎶.

[@angerainbow9200]

Masterpiece

[@robertofaustinohibener842]

Ouvi a primeira vez no rádio em 1980. Talvez eu tenha chorado com o toque de guitarra do final... Eu tinha 6 anos...

[@SBEARD12345]

2024 and still listening

[@JoAnnMacDonald-i8p]

I loved him best with his brother.

[@dassjaganathan6476]

Masterpiece song will be forever in our hearts ♥♥♥

[@ilariaquaranta474]

2022, ho 43 anni e sono fiera di sapermi ancora commuovere con questa canzone come quando ero ragazzina.... Pura poesia....

[@victoriateague9012]

lyrics just beautiful.

[@robinhood3863]

La mia adolescenza ormai perduta...sono passati gli anni...sono passati i sogni. Resta solo il ricordo di momenti indimenticabili e una vita piena di rimpianti.❤😢

[@MIDNIGHT_STARLIGHT_]

What a beautiful song! Do I need to say no more?xx

[@johnwilkinson4464]

to feel that passion

[@joewennne]

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 you And 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?"

[@KingoftheJuice18]

I always thought the lyric was: "All I do is kiss you through the bars of Orion"--wrong, but not a bad line, don't you think?

[@armoris66]

💓

[@Tobiconzel]

came up to play this song at a wedding - love the song since then and love the wedding couple for having me play this song :-)

[@robinhood3863]

Romeo and Juliet..... l' amore puro, che non conosce limiti... l' amore eterno. Brano che entra nel ❤.😢

[@carolcoldplay5633]

Saw them live awesome

[@vaniaboschi9506]

A te fratellone mio, che me li hai fatti ascoltare all'infinito... grazie anche per questo ❤

[@vaniaboschi9506]

Ed è vero gli somigliavi, ma tu... infinitamente più bello! 😉

[@vaniaboschi9506]

IO E TE PER SEMPRE 💚

[@michelesalis2407]

Sempre bellissima 👍

[@darioherlein691]

Que hermosa está canción , nostalgia pura

[@polpinix6058]

I love the tune🎶. It stuck up in my head.. And i feel 😭

[@SandraRandle-fy4pn]

Finally found him again and been through alot in my life and thought I'd go through this all my life

[@SandraRandle-fy4pn]

Glad we are together again and in love more than ever xxx

[@tonitighe4008]

my ex boyfriends and my song love it. yes we are still friends, "it's just that the time was wrong'... For us

[@shanebeckett3557]

Hopefully the time works out for you both next time 😁

[@francesh1903]

"Kiss you thru the bars of a rhyme"...awesome 👌

[@goldies1979]

This is still my favourite song ever

[@kellysmith3766]

Brendan O'Dell ❤❤ Loved and missed so much!!

[@elenamilitopingitore5044]

Makes me cry every time 💘

[@hobbyshopofelyria8923]

The background song of anyone growing up in 80s

[@rodgerslupikisha6588]

Great poetry. Love the strings. First heard this song in my high school friend's home and always Loved it.

[@christinescarff4920]

Love Marc Knopfler and his Geordie accent ! 💋💋💋

[@ratrugby44]

Incredible lyrics.

[@mariaconnor4251]

My most favourite song...ever

[@martafernandezrodriguez2037]

Amo esta canción y se la dedico con todo mi cariño a mi actual pareja ❤❤

[@ericguile1]

Oh man, beautiful xxx

[@SandraRandle-fy4pn]

Reminds me of my first love Lea IRELAND never stopped loving him

[@toniagooderham4491]

One of my top five xxx

[@francesh1903]

2024 still a classic...saw them in Paris 1982 I think ...❤

[@noretaieb758]

Great I love this song.

[@dianatorres9902]

Love this song

[@BijoyKNath-xz5qz]

The piano and guitar😮

[@samwilding9447]

Beautiful barney ❤️

[@joshuamccray7844]

The Fireman loves this song!

[@annetteturner5972]

MK so young! So many versions of this song to watch, this early one is very stripped back

[@UnlimitedHangout]

this is the album version..

[@MIDNIGHT_STARLIGHT_]

Love this song makes me cry,!x

[@debbiecoverley1867]

My favourite song of forever

[@claireverdon4231]

Beautiful.❤

[@theevilgoat4930]

Real music 🤌

[@jaroslawmaciejewski5603]

Przepiękny utwór. ...jesteście moimi ulubiencami nawet jeśli Mark gra sam

[@AnotherBadyoga]

I only heard this song a couple of weeks ago on Amazon Prime series Goliath...I don’t know Dire Straits so well (I thought they were from Australia, that’s how much I don’t know them...I think I confused them with Men at Work) anyway...I heard the voice and thought...is that Lou Reed? Google a lyric...and find it...so I’ve listened to every cover of it I can find and quite a DS. It takes me back to every heartbreak - the “streets of shame”. Anyway, thanks for posting this!

[@AnnZeeK]

I just started playing this for my husband, and his response was, "is that Lou Reed?"

[@petebanham4916]

You guys have got a great time ahead exploring the mighty Knopfler. Enjoy.

[@christinescarff4920]

They’re Geordies from Tyneside ( UK ).