This Shakespearian song is about a couple who are in love, but can't find a way to stay together. The guy in the song is particularly heartbroken, trying to make sense of how it all went wrong. His conclusion: It's just that the time was wrong. He knows he'll always love her. The song was written by Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler and inspired by his broken romance with Holly Vincent, leader of the band Holly And The Italians. Some of the lyrics indicate that Knopfler felt she used him to boost her career: How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals
Running an even six-minutes long, "Romeo And Juliet" was the second single (following "Skateaway") from the third Dire Straits album, Making Movies. The album was recorded at The Power Station in New York City with producer Jimmy Iovine, who had been engineer/mixer on Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run and producer on Patti Smith's Easter.
The line, "Now you just say, oh Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him," came from an interview where Holly Vincent was quoted as saying: "What happened was that I had a scene with Mark Knopfler and it got to the point where he couldn't handle it and we split up."
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