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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 ?
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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And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All do is keep the beat and bad company
The latter line, to me, means the narrator keeps going through the motions of life (perhaps as a musician, literally keeping the beat, or maybe it's just metaphorical) while using drugs, alcohol, one-night stands, you name it, to try and hide the pain. "Bad company" usually means people who are trouble, bad news, lacking character; but it can also be seen as a way of saying Juliet was good company. I don't think "band company" makes as much sense, although maybe the band is itself bad company.
That whole verse is built on metaphors that portray his music as being the only avenue he has to survive, to reach out with, to mourn through & the prison cell imagery portrays feelings of being locked out of her life.
'And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be;
All do is keep the beat and the BAND company
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Julie I'd do the stars with you any time'
The lyrics are sooo touching the bring a tear to my eye at times, I adore this song. Beautifully written, sung & performed, an absolute classic.
but...Bars are the segmants that music is divided into...add a rhyme and you have a song.
Thus...the bars of a Rhyme...ie"(a song)
Again...I own the original album and it contained the words in the liner notes.
By the wat Streetsus is ridiculous. There is actually a version of this that Mark performed with Chet Atkins where he makes a distinct break...thus
A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets....a serenade....Very clea rand distinct.
A lovestruck Romeo, sings the streets a serenade
Also...Through the bars of a Rhyme
Mark Knopler was a great lyricist but was not known for making up words
Cheers!