All stories, begin the same Nothing new under the moon For when one star exstinguishes Another one must light up
Certainly, the rain and the mistake The night and the guitares One can believe it Each of their words and their looks
All the stories have their history Do not listen that which one tells you Love, has that which counts One will love so strong And the, softly, with wanting it One passes from the heart to memory
All the stories, begin the same Nothing new under the moon Here is, that of Romeo and Juliette
Verona
The Prince You who believe you have seen it all You who have travelled, you who have read There is nothing more to astonish you Welcome to Verona
You who find that man is good Because he sings pretty songs If you find this one is good Welcome to Verona
Of course here, it's like elsewhere The men aren't the worst, nor the best Hey! You who come to us tonight By mistake or by chance
Chorus You're in Verona, beautiful Verona The town where everyone hates each other We want to leave but we remain Here it's not the love of kings Here two families make the law No need to choose your side We chose it for you long ago You're in Verona, we talk of Verona Here the venom of hate runs in our lives As it does in our veins Of course our gardens are flowering Of course our women are beautiful, and so It's like a paradise on earth But our souls are in hell You're in Verona
The Prince You who sleep at night Certain to be loved Here, we don't trust anybody Welcome to Verona
It's true we are blessed by the gods Here we die but we die old Here everyone has a crown of their own It's like that in Verona
Of course here, it's like elsewhere The men aren't the worst, nor the best Hey! You who come to us tonight By mistake or by chance
Chorus You're in Verona, beautiful Verona The town where everyone hates each other We want to leave but we remain Here it's not the love of kings Here two families make the law No need to choose your side We chose it for you long ago You're in Verona, we talk of Verona Here the venom of hate runs in our lives As it does in our veins Of course our gardens are flowering Of course our women are beautiful, and so It's like a paradise on earth But our souls are in hell You're in Verona
You're in Verona, beautiful Verona The town where everyone hates each other We want to leave but we remain Here it's not the love of kings Here two families make the law No need to choose your side We chose it for you long ago You're in Verona, we talk of Verona Here the venom of hate runs in our lives As it does in our veins Of course our gardens are flowering Of course our women are beautiful, and so It's like a paradise on earth But our souls are in hell You're in Verona
Verona! Verona! You're in Verona...
The Hatred
Lady Capulet God who sees all, look at us, look at you In our homes runs a poison that has a name The hatred, the hatred Like a snake in your souls The hatred, the hatred Who makes you judge, but condemns you The hatred, the hatred I see it burning in your eyes The hatred, the hatred Who makes us unhappy I hate the hatred
Lady Montaigu I confess to you, I can only dislike you Why must there be in this town we love so much The hatred, the hatred In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son The hatred, the hatred That makes us your accomplices
Lady Capulet The hatred, the hatred It's the courage the cowards lack The hatred, the hatred The sister of love but we hide it
Lady Montaigu I curse you for all those nights Hearing you without understanding you You forget even the happiness The only one that counts, is hate
Lady Capulet You look at her and are seduced This whore of hatred who takes all of you You look and you are nothing Only puppets in her hands How can we make in her name All this crimes and victims
Lady Montaigu The hatred, it comes to lie in your souls Then listen to the voice of the women, The hatred...
ONE DAY
Romeo I am loved by women, I who am not yet 20 years old I know all their traps, they hurt me so often I am loved by women, without loving them I made them cry, when they saw me tired Of their white skin, bored with pretending to love them I did not truly love them Love, I want it now
Juliette What can I know of love when I am only 16 years old? Of course I know that someday but, that someday will be when? What can one know of life, when yours hasn't begun? And one dies of impatience waiting for him Who you will love, him, who will always say to you The words, these words that one waits for Love, I want it now
Romeo One day she will come One day she will be my love
Juliette One day, he will come, that day Where I will live love, one day
Romeo & Juliette One day, one will forget these days, to trail the heavy heart One day it will be our turn to love one day One day, the same vow will be made I was alone, one will be two, and will love so strong In our souls, in our bodies And when death comes, we will still love each other, one day One day, the same vow will be made I was alone, one will be two, and will love so strong In our souls, in our bodies And when death comes, we will still love each other, one day
The Request of Marriage
Paris I am 30 years old, I am charming I love your child, give her to me I am a good match I have princes and kings behind me I will pay your debts, if you have any I will throw parties, to honour you But on my knee I implore you Give me Juliette, because I adore her
Count Capulet Dear friend, I am suprised That your love is that much Grave error to take a heart Before its time I frighten you but she is so tender It will have to wait Come, though, tonight, you can see her But for pity, at least have A little patience, beginning with a dance But me, I think, but when I think of it Grave error, to take a heart Before its time, before its time
You Must Marry
Lady Capulet Your father no longer loves me He only loved me When he knew He wanted to marry Love came to him When he desired me When he saw me naked Don't look shocked
I was beautiful like the rest I was beautiful like you He had soft eyes And he looked at only me And then time passed And our love is gone
Lady Capulet and The Nurse We all have the same dream To love until the fever Juliette you are old enough To think of marriage
The Nurse Now listen to your mother
Lady Capulet Now listen to your nurse Men!
The Nurse Men! Men are so fragile
Lady Capulet They don't know who we are
The Nurse That's to say it's not easy
Lady Capulet I hate men
The Nurse Me, I adore them
Lady Capulet They do nothing to you
The Nurse I know, but I still hope Juliette listen to your mother Of course, she's right If she took lovers She had her reasons
Lady Capulet Don't believe that jealousy I was a good wife You father is my only man He knows who I am
Lady Capulet and The Nurse Life is too short Life is too beautiful For you to travel your road Without passing by the church
Lady Capulet Your dress is already ready
The Nurse I know, it's me who made it
Lady Capulet and The Nurse We are weak women In a vale of tears You will avenge us You must marry
Lady Capulet Now I beg you
The Nurse I beg you also
Lady Capulet and The Nurse Life is too short Life is too beautiful For you to travel your road Without passing by the church One day you will thank us You must take a husband
The Kings of the World
Romeo The kings of the world live at the top They have the most beautiful view but there is a but They don't know what we think of them down here They don't know that here it's us who are kings
Benvolio The kings of the world do what they want They have everyone around them but they are alone In their castles on high, they are bored While down here we dance all the night
Refrain We, we make love we live life Day after day, night after night What is the point of being alive If we have to live on our knees We know that time is like the wind Living is important We have no morals We know we do nothing wrong
Mercutio The kings of the world fear everything They confuse the dogs and the wolves They make traps where they will fall one day They protect themselves from everything, even from love
Romeo and Benvolio The kings of the world fight with each other There is not room for two of them And us down here don't fight their wars We don't even know why all these games of kings are necessary
Refrain We, we make love we live life Day after day, night after night What is the point of being alive If we have to live on our knees We know that time is like the wind Living is important We have no morals We know we do nothing wrong
Refrain until fade out
The Madness
Mercutio What makes men run? Do we know really, who we are? What makes the boats leave? What makes the birds fly? What makes the idiots smile? Leave the kings where they are and ask youself the question So Benvolio, why don't you ever run? Huh? C'mon...
What makes our souls burn? Why do we run like this, after women? Me the only one I really like The one who knows my torments The one who took me as a lover You will never see her And me, I don't know who she is
The madness, the madness, the madness, the madness, she my friend, it's the madness The madness, who tells you, go ahead, you cry or you laugh Yes, I owe her all she taught me The madness, the madness, she holds me in her hands and I am well Mad with anger
Benvolio Mad with chagrin, with jealousy
Together With joy, or mad with nothing
Mercutio She is the most beautiful of mistresses
Benvolio The only one who knows the caresses
Together That wisdom doesn't know
Romeo She is served or she is seen
Together But we know she's there The madness, the madness, the madness, the madness, She is our friend, the madness The madness
Mercutio She takes us The madness
Romeo She returns us The madness
Benvolio Completely, oh
Together You cry or you laugh, it's the madness The madness
Romeo She involves us The madness
Benvolio She undoes us The madness
Together The madness, she troubles us, the madness, but we love her
I'm Afraid
Romeo You, my friends, my blood brothers You who I've loved for so long a time Like me, on your shoulders Do you feel death pass by you You who laugh at everything, at nothing Who mock tomorrow Me, Romeo who saw upclose This night, my friends, I confess to you
I'm afraid, I'm afraid That our shadows so light Tomorrow turn into stone That the stars which guide us One day lead us to the end I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid That tomorrow everything stops That trouble settles into our heads That winds of chance will be caught in our guitares
You my friends, my brothers in taste You who want to taste all The fruits of the heart are most tender But they die when December comes You who are young Full of courage and boredom Then listen to someone of your age Who this evening sees the coming shipwreck
I'm afraid, I'm afraid Of the life that awaits us Of the lies of our parents For us everything is easy but happiness is fragile I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, oh I'm afraid That the gods in their anger Will taken vengence on us, my brothers For loving life so much but never thanking them for it I'm afraid, I'm afraid Of the life that awaits us Of the lies of our parents I'm afraid, oh so afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid That the stars who guide us One day will push us to the end I'm afraid, I'm afraid...
Happy Love
Romeo She wears a light dress A little silk for which She is beautiful, beautiful to die for Beautiful to chose One day to die for her
Juliette Those are the eyes of men When he looks at me with them And he burns Like an angel of hell Like an angel on earth Like an angel of light He burns
Romeo Will you love me someday? Until the end of the last day?
Juliette Will you love me still Until the end, until death?
Romeo Will you love me someday, my love?
Juliette Will you love me someday, my love?
Romeo and Juliette Will you love me still? Until the end, until death? It's what people say who are in love It's what we want, happy love
Romeo Will you love me someday? Until the end of the last day?
Juliette Will you love me still Until the end, until death?
Romeo Will you love me someday, my love?
Juliette Will you love me someday, my love?
Romeo and Juliette Will you love me still? Until the end, until death? It's what people say who are in love It's what we want, happy love
It's Not My Fault
Tybalt The memories we invent are more beautiful Childhood is more troubling when all is false Mine was stolen, I was betrayed I am the son of hatred and contempt Blinders were put on me and they said to me The others, they will want war you want it also And I grew up in the shadows of sentiments Far too dark, too many shadows, for a child
Alone, I am all alone Alone, always too alone
It's not my fault It's not my fault If my parents have made me I am what you see
It's not my fault It's not my fault I am the arms of their vengence And I must obey them It's not my fault Don't look at me like that It's not my fault
I have not had, no, no choice I am the son of their violence Proud of his birth
It's not my fault, oh No, no, no It's not my fault Don't look at me like that I have not had, no, no choice I am the son of their violence Proud of his birth
The memories we invent are more beautiful Childhood is more troubling when all is false Mine was stolen, I was betrayed I am the son of hatred and contempt
The Poet
The Poet Of course I am wrong said the earth Until I no longer turn round I believed myself so strong Now, I touch the bottom And I turn in the universe Like the snow on the wind And I wait I wait until men break my heart Until their madness explodes They make a great mistake The last overdose But me I turn in the universe Like the snow on the wind While waiting...
Juliette You who can make the earth speak You who know so well of the words Tell me poet what is the purpose of One more day without Romeo Me, I defy the universe For tonight, I love a man To speak of the world and her mysteries To speak of all it is to speak too much Tell me poet what is the purpose of One more day without Romeo Me, I defy evils of the world For tonight, I love a man For tonight, I love a man And may God pardon me if I betray my father And may God abandon me, I have no fear of his anger Now you see, poet I defy the world tonight For tonight, I love a man
The Balcony
Juliette To which star, to which God Do I owe this love in his eyes? Who wanted up there That Juliette loves Romeo? To which star, to which God Do I owe this love in his eyes? Even if I must pay the price Of a forbidden love Why do our fathers hate each other And does the daughter love the son? They must laugh well, up there That Juliette loves Romeo
Romeo To which star, to which God Do I owe the love in her eyes? That their will is made For Romeo loves Juliette If I must pray, I will pray If I must fight them, I will fight But why must we pay For the right to love each other?
Romeo and Juliette And that our fathers tear each other Their children desire each other One can not change history Ours will begin tonight
Juliette And who cares if this upsets
Romeo That a virgin loves an angel
Romeo and Juliette To which star, to which God Do I owe the love in her/his eyes? That their will is made For Romeo loves Juliette To which star, to which God Do I owe this love in her/his eyes? They must laugh well, up there That Juliette loves Romeo
For Love
Frere Laurent For love we become crazy
Romeo But without it we are nothing at all
Frere Laurent Me, my love is for God
Juliette I live only in his eyes
Frere Laurent For love we fear to suffer
Romeo I am ready to die for it
Frere Laurent We lose ourselves, we drown
Juliette We hope and we believe
Romeo For love I would make for her Our lives a rainbow, help us
Juliette Far from the noise of armies
Romeo and Juliette Make us husband and wife, for love
Frere Laurent For love, we feel too much pain
Juliette Yes but it's the only star
Romeo In the night who guides us
Romeo and Juliette Without love our lives are empty
Romeo and Frere Laurent Without love
Romeo It's God that you love Yes but for me it's Juliette If eveyone must pay, tell me what is my debt? My father, I beg you
Juliette My father, I implore you
Romeo and Juliette Marry us today The injustice is wrong You will see us forced on our knees in front of you You will see us like the only ewes in the middle of a pack of wolves
Romeo I want so much tonight to sleep with Juliette To wait in the dark for the soft song of the meadowlark
Romeo and Juliette Help us
Chorus For love, we can gain For always eternity, for love And if God helps us And that God helps us, for love
Romeo and Juliette For love
The Beautiful, The Ugly
The Nurse Ha,ha,ha laugh the people around Ha,ha,ha they laugh at a love They don't understand what they don't feel And this is why they say ha, ha, ha Laugh, laugh hard you, you would pour tears, they would still laugh God it's easy for the idiots To be blind and deaf to a grand love To be blind and deaf
Benvolio Ha,ha,ha, my God she is funny With this hair here, she has the air of a willow How Romeo the most beautiful of us Could keep all these oaths Like us all, he lies
Refrain The beautiful, the ugly both have the same secrets Life doesn't make us gifts Whether we are ugly or we are beautiful We all want what we don't have We are caught for what we aren't We laugh when love frightens us But we pray that it will come into our hearts
The Nurse Ha, ha, ha you are only dogs Ha, ha, ha nothing satisfies you And the jealousies are your only friends Even the north wind must blow weaker Than you silly things
Mercutio Ha, ha, ha, no matter if these two like each other Ha, ha, ha, we don't speak the same Two spoiled children can't love Love is for those who forget the gods Who deserve it (To refrain)
The beautiful, the ugly... Yes, but at the bottom we know well who we are The beautiful, the ugly... (To refrain)
And Now She Loves
The Nurse Me, I'm nobody, nobody is around me They told me you give your milk and your love And when I saw her eyes I thanked the gods And I prayed to heaven that her life would be beautiful And Juliette grew
And now she loves, and now she dances She tells me, 'I love him', she leaves childhood And me who is nothing but her nurse, her cousin It's not me who she looks like But I am the only one for her when she is scared And now she loves and now she dances And now she loves
And me who doesn't have her, I share her with another When she says 'my daughter', me, I think it's ours Why to please their husbands So many women like her forget That they made children and will be twenty years old And Juliette grew
And now she loves, and now she dances She tells me, 'I love him', she leaves childhood And me who is here, who looks and who sees I would give my life all the same For this child who grows
And now she loves and now she dares That her heart explodes and now she loves And you who know that love can kill Give me the strength, the courage To lead her to marriage And now she loves And now she dances And now she loves And now she loves
To Love
Romeo To love is the most beautiful thing To love is to rise so high And touch the wings of birds To love is the most beautiful thing
Juliette To love is to steal time To love is to remain living And to burn with the heart of a volcano To love is the most grand thing
Romeo and Juliette To love is stronger than all To give the best of us To love and to feel our heart To love to have no fear
Romeo, Juliette and the Chorus To love is the most beautiful thing To love is to rise so high And touch the wings of birds To love is the most beautiful thing To love is to steal time To love is to remain living And to burn with the heart of a volcano To love is the most grand thing To love is to burn in the nights To love is to pay the price And to give a direction to one's life To love is to burn in the nights To love is the most beautiful thing To love is to rise so high And touch the wings of birds To love is the most beautiful thing To love...
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