Overture

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...