Song Description

Ben Folds style ironic pop/rock song.

Lyrics

"Romeo And Juliet Are Dead"
© 2009 Capers Simmons (ASCAP)

VERSE I
I was thirteen and went to see my Uncle Romeo
At his humble trailer home.
He told me, "Here, kid, have a beer; you're going to need it someday
When you're all alone."

CHORUS I
And he said, "Never marry a Capulet.
They'll fart on your heart and then end up pregnant.
If Aunt Juliet tells you anything different,
Don't believe a word that she says."

VERSE II
One day I met Aunt Juliet, she asked me, "How's your uncle?
Still a flaming tool?"
She took a hit from her cigarette, and then she plainly told me,
"You won't learn this in school."

CHORUS II
"But don't you ever marry a Montague
They'll swear that that they care, then they end up leaving you.
I know, 'cause I used to love Romeo
Oh, so long ago."

BRIDGE
Romeo and Juliet are dead inside.
I watched them go down, slowly so,
Sinking into their bitter lives.
Two star-crossed lovers waste each other,
Neither wrong or right.
Romeo and Juliet are dead.

VERSE III
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

CHORUS III
Thus ends another teen romance
One grows up and the other one doesn't
Two fools, fall in love in out of high school
And don't even know what love is.

CHORUS IV
And, just so, Julie and Romeo
Turn something warm into something so cold;
So sure that the person you'd die for
Wishes you'd never been born.

~ CHORUS I ~ CHORUS II ~