In Fair Verona.

I think, if someone went into Romeo & Juliet without knowing anything about it, they may actually get it. Instead people go into it knowing that the characters die, and with this stupid supposition that it's about true love. Thinking these things, you miss out on the lovely foreshadowing, not to mention you miss the point of the whole show.

So I was going to try to write lyrics about the destructiveness of selfish, uncontrolled emotions, but it got away from me and just turned into one of my regular love/death things. I still like it, though. Some lines I ripped straight from Shakespeare, but he's not around to sue me, and I don't think he'd care that much, anyway.

Let's share consuming kisses,
And like fire meeting powder,
Let's explode and end this town.
These violent delights have violent ends,
And we'll show them the triumph of true love.


Let's kill the envious and swear not by the moon,
But by our hands and by what we can do.
And I will do it all to be with you.
And will you leave me so unsatisfied?
For I want more than what you do;
I want the world to die for you.


So we'll be not ourselves
And we'll love no one else,
For we'll die in the world
And we'll live in the grave.
I'll have no other name
If you will call me love,
For your name murders me.
And when I married you,
I wed calamity.


I'll make your wedding bed the grave,
And we'll destroy our lives
If just to kiss these pilgrim lips.
We'll quench our love with purple fountains issuing from our veins.
If we survive, I'll cherish you to death.


Let all things die if I cannot be loved by you
For love-devouring death do what he dare,
It is enough I may but call you mine.
So we'll show those that never hurt
What pain sweet bliss can be.
So dedicate your loveliness alone to me.


What's love? The damned ones use that word in hell.
I must be gone, or stay for love and die.
And love's the end of all.