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I’ve been listening to the Dire Straits’ Romeo and Juliet quite a lot lately. You know the song? It’s one of those songs - you know, those songs you listen to wasted and holding a cigarette when your heart is broken.

I’m quite partial to the Indigo Girls version because when you hear Amy Ray sing the song it just feels like her heart is being ripped out (hee).

I used to listen to these types of songs a long, long time ago. I was unceremoniously dumped (ouch) and it hurt like a motherfucker. I would get though the day in school fully tanked and reeking of cigarettes, and would spend my sleepless nights listening to music like this song (and Every Rose Has Its Thorn - hahaha I can laugh about it now but at that time it was the great-mai-solo-pity-party.)

And it’s funny, because I am pretty sure everyones got a couple songs like these. Sappy, angry, whatever. They always bring back memories.
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Romeo and Juliet by the Dire Straits

A lovestruck romeo sings a streetsus serenade
Laying everybody low with me a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient 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 were loaded from the start
And I bet and you exploded in my heart
And I forget the movie song
When you wanna realise it was just that the time was wrong juliet ?

Come up on differents 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 your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals ?

Where 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 think and thin
Now you just says 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 realise 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 do is keep the beat and 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 till I die
There’s a place for us you know the movie song
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong juliet ?

A lovestruck romeo sings a streetsus serenade
Laying everybody low with me a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it ?
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Hee, and the strange thing is I married the guy I was so brokenhearted over. Life’s weird but great, isn’t it?