"Running after me..."

The movie "Can't Hardly Wait" is one of my favourites. Sure, you might say it's a teen party movie. But it's got a message to it. At least one. "Fate can only take you so far..." I love the soundtrack as well. I didn't realize it until last night, but it's a Run DMC song that's playing as Kenny goes into the bathroom to get ready to lose his virginity... ah, the irony and fate in that scene!

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 different 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
Juliet 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?"

(That's "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits)