Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet (Official Music Video)

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  • Опубликовано: 6 дек 2016
  • The Official Music Video for Romeo And Juliet. Taken from Dire Straits - Making Movies.
    Dire Straits - Live 1978-1992' is out now (UK/ROW). Out January 19th, 2024. (US). Order now: DireStraits.lnk.to/live78-92ID
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    Lyrics:
    a lovestruck romeo sings a streetsusss serenade
    laying everybody low with 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 i forget the movie song
    when you gonna 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 now your dream is real
    how can you look at me as if i was just another one of your deals?
    when 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 thick 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 i do is keep the beat and bad company
    all i do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
    julie 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
    and 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 streetsuss serenade
    laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
    finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade
    says something like you and me babe how about it?
    #DireStraits # RomeoAndJuliet #MakingMovies
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Комментарии • 4,7 тыс.

  • @Octocoupler
    @Octocoupler 2 года назад +1791

    Sadly I've only two beers left tonight, I wish I had an endless supply so I could continue my aural enjoyment . Keep safe, enjoy life and love one another.

    • @JDAbelRN
      @JDAbelRN 2 года назад +78

      Oh, yeah, a bitch when ya run outta a beers, and still wanna watch a bunch of great old classics...😭🤯😵‍💫😵

    • @JayckeobRLDavis
      @JayckeobRLDavis Год назад +28

      Lyric’s to a song is a never ending beer/shot🥂

    • @shashankmongrel
      @shashankmongrel Год назад +23

      Always another day

    • @victorwaddell6530
      @victorwaddell6530 Год назад +59

      I have 30 + beers , two bottles of Evan Williams Peach Bourbon ,and three packs of menthol cigarillos . Wish you were here to share with me . I'm gonna listen to The Pogues now .

    • @davidharvey2526
      @davidharvey2526 Год назад +35

      It's a beautiful song, I have a long lost Juliet.

  • @LNPChina
    @LNPChina 5 лет назад +3352

    This is the perfect song about longing. I listened to it in the back of my dad's car when I was a kid, longing to grow up and understand and feel how song described. As a young man, it described how I longed for the women that I loved and lost. And now I watch it and miss the young man I was, and what it felt like to be young, to be in love, and have my heart broken. It's so bittersweet - beautiful and sad, makes me nostalgic and also connected to each period of my life. It feels so personal, yet when I read all the comments here, I realise I'm just one of many that feels that way.

    • @barnabylee9763
      @barnabylee9763 5 лет назад +34

      LNP China as a young guy going through my first love loss. This song is so perfect

    • @anirbanroy3071
      @anirbanroy3071 5 лет назад +23

      Right in the feels...
      Even I feel the song....

    • @sm6993
      @sm6993 5 лет назад +54

      love the way you put your words together

    • @ianeagle40nil
      @ianeagle40nil 4 года назад +37

      Petra Europe very well said. Word for word my thoughts😌
      Such a beautiful song - a simple melody, interspersed with whimsical guitar licks,
      like little flights of fancy. The music light but the subject heavy.
      (I met my wife at 15 and had a weird thought that We’d end up together, but one of us was always in a relationship.
      It wasn’t until 23 that we were both free at the same time, and we married at 26.💟☮️

    • @garyhall4449
      @garyhall4449 4 года назад +40

      Same hear. Listened to this as a kid with my girlfriend. Now at 46 listening to it going through our divorce..

  • @guinneverehenderson2847
    @guinneverehenderson2847 7 месяцев назад +1090

    This song holds more meaning for me than anyone could imagine. I was with my significant other for almost 30 years. We had separated, lived apart for a couple of years, still seeing each other almost everyday. By chance we ended up back together and it was so beautiful that we had a chance to fall in love all over again until after being 12 years in remission, he ended up with fatal brain cancer and was given not even 4 weeks to live. He graciously lived for over 5 more months and yet even being bed ridden and paralyzed on one side, my children and I were by his side. We all were blessed to have that time with him and he was so happy even considering the circumstances. He passed away and I was there for every moment including his last breath. There was a time long ago when he said to me... "You and me babe, how bout it? "... This song is so precious to me and I'll never forget those words. When this song appears in my feed, knowing I'm going to cry like a baby , I have no choice but to listen... Scott, you made my life complete. I miss you so much. Even though you've been gone for 2 and a half years already, it's fresh like it was yesterday. I'll forever hold our memories deep in my heart and remember your last breath you were still trying to say I love you even though you couldn't speak. I miss you so very much. Maybe one day we'll be together again. I'll forever be about you babe. Always and forever until we meet again my love... Thank you to whomever took the time to read this. Our love is forever and Romeo and juliet do truly exist. ♥️

    • @marziamariabarozzi4908
      @marziamariabarozzi4908 6 месяцев назад +5

    • @pregoson
      @pregoson 6 месяцев назад +32

      Thank you for sharing such an amazing and deeply touching part of your life. Even though your story had an emotional impact on me, , it also echos how much I am in love with my better half, best friend, lover and wife. I am thankful every day for her choosing to share her life with me. I hope everyone who reads your story and my little reply, can take a moment to appreciate that someone is out there for all of us. If you found that someone, take a moment each day to let them know how much you care about them. Use any of the 5 love languages (yes it works) to convey your love. 💓 It makes a difference to them and makes you a better version of yourself, which also feels fantastic. 🤩
      Give it a try if you don't believe me and see what happens. 😉

    • @bigjumbo3606
      @bigjumbo3606 6 месяцев назад +3

      ❤❤❤

    • @mcmaximon1
      @mcmaximon1 6 месяцев назад +20

      He loved you like the stars above ,he loved you 'til he died. God Bless x

    • @DenMore1
      @DenMore1 6 месяцев назад +5

      Same here, we agreed to stay apart till she finds the rest in her mind. I respect that. Stay strong and all the love to you!!!!

  • @ibas3543
    @ibas3543 4 месяца назад +32

    The 80s: When music was at its peak...Long live the 80s...!

  • @jmac6350
    @jmac6350 2 года назад +1541

    One of the most beautiful songs that will ever exist.

    • @namyarasree
      @namyarasree Год назад +12

      From a beautiful story.....!!!!

    • @lunemagick2903
      @lunemagick2903 Год назад +7

      Yes ♥🎶

    • @nugnug118
      @nugnug118 Год назад +15

      @@lunemagick2903 can only be beaten by two other of his songs, telegraph road and my favourite tunnel of love, give them a listen if you haven't already.

    • @kathyraymelles.80
      @kathyraymelles.80 Год назад +3

      So beautiful

    • @markfisher61
      @markfisher61 Год назад +26

      Agree. It's a pity the video is so awful.

  • @T4Liam
    @T4Liam Год назад +754

    The line "It was just that the time was wrong" gets me.
    So many of us must know that feeling of completely falling for someone, but not being able to do anything about it.

    • @squamish4244
      @squamish4244 Год назад +56

      Yes, a lot of people here say it's about a failed relationship, but to me it's about one that never got started. As in my case.

    • @claudesaintpierre7352
      @claudesaintpierre7352 Год назад +17

      The dices were loaded on the start

    • @bppmurphy
      @bppmurphy Год назад +15

      Too relatable. Either the one we fall for are already in a relationship or they just don't love us the same we love them

    • @jenlarge9036
      @jenlarge9036 Год назад +12

      I always and still do love the line'I cant do anything, but I would do anything for you" . Being in a bad relationship, it was my fantasy to find someone who actually cared enough about me to say that.

    • @Daimo83
      @Daimo83 Год назад +5

      Or completely FAILING with someone, and not being able to do anything about it. You just have to make sure you're a better person for the next time.

  • @martinmaher6086
    @martinmaher6086 8 месяцев назад +178

    40 years ago and it has never lost its magic. Genius.

  • @sherylflennery5947
    @sherylflennery5947 20 дней назад +7

    If you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold. REMEMBER THIS.

  • @Maatttttttttttt
    @Maatttttttttttt 3 года назад +525

    "I can't do a love song, the way it's meant to be"
    Well that was a lie

  • @daviddaniels4075
    @daviddaniels4075 4 года назад +238

    "All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme " What a great line.

    • @A_A_J.
      @A_A_J. 3 года назад +1

      Thank you! I never understood that line. I thought it was about rain.

    • @lalee9918
      @lalee9918 3 года назад +1

      My favorite one too but I also like I'd do the stars with you anytime

    • @garybamford1066
      @garybamford1066 3 года назад +11

      All I do is kiss you through the bars of Orion.

    • @ToffeenoseToffee
      @ToffeenoseToffee 3 года назад +2

      Just said that to my mrs before I read your comment 👌👍

    • @pageturner6747
      @pageturner6747 3 года назад +1

      Ah shit, Im always singing Orion. He is singing about the stars the line before, so it made sense in my head. XD

  • @chiarastrologo228
    @chiarastrologo228 Год назад +10

    3:19 “all I do is miss you and the way we used to be” so simple yet it’s when I cry harder

  • @Saprofane
    @Saprofane Год назад +466

    If you don’t get goosebumps listening to this song then you are missing a soul

    • @user-lr4zd6zo6y
      @user-lr4zd6zo6y 10 месяцев назад

      У Моей Наташки должны быть, а так только я в гавно попадаю))))

    • @user-lr4zd6zo6y
      @user-lr4zd6zo6y 10 месяцев назад

      Не Мурашки, значит я Мужик)))

    • @jenklineclark9548
      @jenklineclark9548 9 месяцев назад

      Ok,my daughter is officially missing a soul.

    • @user-bj2cl2ne5n
      @user-bj2cl2ne5n 7 месяцев назад +1

      Oh piss off, dude! Like srsly.

    • @Deontjie
      @Deontjie 3 месяца назад

      Great song, stupid video.

  • @drama85007
    @drama85007 2 года назад +614

    One of the most gorgeous, sad, wistful songs about a failed relationship. EVER. Just perfect. I owe a lot of needed tears to this song.

    • @thetimemasheen1305
      @thetimemasheen1305 2 года назад +18

      Is that your interpretation too? I just had a breakup that I felt would be the one ... and the lyrics seem to point in that direction for me too. The most obvious part would be "just that the time was wrong" since she currently has so much in her life that she had no time for a relationship. The music video points in the direction of them moving on rather than getting back together though- what you think about the songs lyrics?

    • @normandean8486
      @normandean8486 Год назад +10

      Me too, hope you've healed.

    • @claudesaintpierre7352
      @claudesaintpierre7352 Год назад +3

      I like it and it's so ironic

    • @thartson
      @thartson Год назад +1

      Yes!

    • @musiclover-ox7yy
      @musiclover-ox7yy Год назад

      But at the same time it has beat that can pick you up

  • @wolverinethad
    @wolverinethad Год назад +934

    Mark Knopfler is criminally underrated as a songwriter. This and Brothers In Arms are two standout songs that should be preserved in the Library of Congress.

    • @kathyraymelles.80
      @kathyraymelles.80 Год назад +19

      He's my go to guitar player...the best

    • @jesstajames
      @jesstajames Год назад +5

      👏👏👏👏

    • @nariosixpence8082
      @nariosixpence8082 Год назад +8

      Your latest trick and why worry too

    • @nocoskull44
      @nocoskull44 Год назад +10

      @@nariosixpence8082 the man's too strong !!!!

    • @tylsimys67
      @tylsimys67 Год назад +16

      And, maybe, "Sultans Of Swing", "Expresso Love", "Private Investigations" and "Money For Nothing"...?

  • @jomomma5281
    @jomomma5281 3 месяца назад +58

    I'm in my late 50's. I come to remember my real first love,we lived together for 6yrs. Separated,met yrs later, I was his last girlfriend 🥺 he passed from liver cancer. U never realise what we have & lost until it's way too late. See ya on the flip side Mick.😘

  • @rozatoldi5555
    @rozatoldi5555 Месяц назад +18

    Juliet says, "Hey, it's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack" 💯♾🎶💘Always

  • @hafizhardhani5614
    @hafizhardhani5614 4 года назад +990

    It's been exactly 39 years since this was released, Still one of the best songs ever!

    • @Luca_Amodeo
      @Luca_Amodeo 4 года назад +13

      It will be 40 in October... unbelievable.

    • @StevenStoddart
      @StevenStoddart 4 года назад +10

      39 years ago?? Gawd... that makes me feel old 😊 Still, I do love this song... both lyric and score.. they combine to make something so loaded with a sense of longing...

    • @nineteenthly
      @nineteenthly 4 года назад +4

      Exactly why I'm listening to it now.

    • @johnbecay6887
      @johnbecay6887 4 года назад +5

      one of the saddest, that's for sure

    • @russellmilam5686
      @russellmilam5686 4 года назад +2

      1st video I ever saw

  • @abir5814
    @abir5814 2 года назад +540

    This line “Juliet, when we made love you used to cry
    You said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die." It gives me the chills every time I hear it, cuz it’s just so fking beautiful, represents how crazily in love you can be with someone.
    The lyrics of this songs are just fucking beautiful!!

    • @ozymandias7940
      @ozymandias7940 2 года назад +22

      Yup and then it all turns to shit.... Been there so many times.

    • @julieknox1682
      @julieknox1682 2 года назад +4

      @@ozymandias7940 Yep. Going through the remnants of that now. This song kills me, but I love it. Kinda like love itself

    • @ozymandias7940
      @ozymandias7940 2 года назад +4

      @@julieknox1682 Hey, sorry to hear that. You're probably sick of hearing this, but it does get easier. Keep your chin up, soldier on, one day at a time. 🙂

    • @abbymckay3791
      @abbymckay3791 Год назад +1

      I still feel the same x

    • @matrix26uk
      @matrix26uk Год назад +4

      Then it turns out she's a liar!

  • @ivyfenix
    @ivyfenix Месяц назад +19

    Some loves are never forgotten because of this song. It was just that the time was wrong : Oh Juliet.

  • @stephaniedawson380
    @stephaniedawson380 Год назад +94

    When I was a kid, my father played this song in the car all the time. He died 5 years ago, it just makes me think of my childhood and life before it all got too complicated

  • @sledge2742
    @sledge2742 3 года назад +15

    prettier women, better dancing, MUCH better music.... damn i wish i grew up in this era

  • @CTurner64
    @CTurner64 4 года назад +207

    one of my favourite songs. But my god this is the most literal video ever. It's like the director literally interpreted every word of the song on a low budget.

    • @chesterdonnelly1212
      @chesterdonnelly1212 4 года назад +8

      Yes literal. I've never seen another video like it.

    • @kellysmart5774
      @kellysmart5774 4 года назад +4

      I agree love the song it’s older than me, I also remember my dad playing it when I was little. The video clip is a too literal though, it is such a good song a bit of mystery in the film clip would of made a whole lot better

    • @3madppl
      @3madppl 2 года назад +3

      Exactly my thoughts. Almost like Bollywood haha. What a song though.

    • @besbin7
      @besbin7 2 года назад +4

      I absolutely love this video actually

    • @pauls6320
      @pauls6320 2 года назад

      Yeah, I know. Pity. Imagine the vide they COULD have made!

  • @lorenzodatti2489
    @lorenzodatti2489 8 месяцев назад +170

    i’m 17 and this song is just on another level compared to nowadays songs (and to older ones too), too good, too flipping good thank you dire straights for gifting us with this beautiful masterpiece that will forever be 100/100

    • @chriskavanagh4896
      @chriskavanagh4896 5 месяцев назад +1

      You've got an old show

    • @lou-anhsinnassamy1854
      @lou-anhsinnassamy1854 4 месяца назад +3

      im 16 and i agree

    • @claytonrodriguesinacio6065
      @claytonrodriguesinacio6065 4 месяца назад

      Uma ótima musica romântica de direstrait

    • @keithm9337
      @keithm9337 3 месяца назад +4

      You will never know the magic of that era. We were bombarded with hits songs day after day by outstanding artists like this. So much in fact we got jaded and did not appreciate the time we were living in. When I go back and listen now the music we had, it is astonishing because nothing like that exists now. I am so grateful to have experienced that chunk of time that artists actually created beautiful music.

    • @barca44
      @barca44 2 месяца назад +1

      I'm 17 too and I totally agree

  • @andreamolnar5333
    @andreamolnar5333 7 месяцев назад +33

    I grew up in Hungary, Central Europe, in the 90's that was post-communist, expecting a lot from America and itself at the end of the cold war. I grew up on this song blasting from my grandad's radio while I played football with my cousin in the yard, surrounded by the flowers my grandma planted. It was such a special time. We thought everything was possible and we only needed to reach for the sky. I'm living in the US now, but no feeling is as sweet as dreaming away in 90's Hungary, thinking that the world was my oyster.

    • @jenniferlaughlin47
      @jenniferlaughlin47 Месяц назад

      Yes but dire straits are english

    • @andreamolnar5333
      @andreamolnar5333 Месяц назад +1

      @@jenniferlaughlin47 Duuuuh.... I know. I'm reminiscing of the times I listened to Dire Straits in HU as a child. And now I live in the US for the moment. No correlation with DS beimg English or not :D

  • @raycornford283
    @raycornford283 2 года назад +17

    'All I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme' - one of my all-time favourite lyric lines

  • @martymcfly3159
    @martymcfly3159 4 года назад +273

    Early 80s, beautiful years!! Simply life, happy life, beautiful music, beautiful movies, no smartphone and internet... TRUE EMOTIONS!!! TRUE LIFE!!! Regards from Italy

    • @WD-4T
      @WD-4T 3 года назад +8

      You forgot about AIDS

    • @cfccfc7341
      @cfccfc7341 3 года назад +2

      🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👏👍

    • @sergiydotsenko5368
      @sergiydotsenko5368 3 года назад

      So, please turn off RUclips Chanel and this perfect song. You don't need Enternet!

    • @squamish4244
      @squamish4244 3 года назад +4

      The secret isn't no smartphone or Internet. The secret is YOU WERE YOUNG.

    • @totalprocall6894
      @totalprocall6894 3 года назад +7

      @@squamish4244 The internet, despite its many helping ways, has detracted from the good stuff in life. Nothing now is appreciated as everything is availabel on tap...it encourages less creativity, more depression, poor attitudes, and general mental illness as evidenced by 95% of twitter. In the older days you were friends with people around you, you were limited in what you heard so would obsess over songs like this for montsh and years on vynl or cassette. I could go on...its certainly not just about being young.

  • @benjaminmarshall-camm5595
    @benjaminmarshall-camm5595 10 месяцев назад +10

    The perfect story of a long lost love, with the justification of failure being 'it was just that time was wrong'. There is a place for 'us', I truly hope.

  • @jonathankillian3503
    @jonathankillian3503 4 месяца назад +8

    Making Movies
    The album
    Is timeless.
    Great Song

  • @rheino
    @rheino 3 года назад +43

    I’ve been walking wrong all these years

  • @asham76
    @asham76 3 года назад +42

    Here for my Dad
    R I P Roger
    ❤️❤️❤️

  • @derkeheath5172
    @derkeheath5172 19 дней назад +3

    This band's early material deserves so much more love than it gets. It sounds very contemporary - it could easily be a song by The KIllers or any number of similar bands.
    One of the few songs out there that can bring tears to my eyes every time I listen to it for the first time in a while.

  • @mattm4570
    @mattm4570 7 месяцев назад +7

    Great song makes you feel either great or depressed but that’s probably what it’s meant to do. Matt from Australia 🇦🇺

  • @tomwoods8255
    @tomwoods8255 2 года назад +25

    Shakespeare liked this song so much that he traveled back in time and wrote a story about it, mad respect

  • @full2763
    @full2763 2 года назад +9

    R.I.P Music Video Director Lester Bookbinder (1929 - 2017)

  • @user-so3mi1cf4b
    @user-so3mi1cf4b Месяц назад +18

    I am 48 now and I have loved this song all my life. A truly beautiful voice ❤❤❤

    • @theamerican8337
      @theamerican8337 3 дня назад

      49 here and I feel the same way...I am sure we aint the only ones but this is me and my beautiful wifes song lol. 30 years married now

  • @carlabrogan4825
    @carlabrogan4825 5 лет назад +3643

    Hey did yall hear, Shakspeare is writing a play based on this song!!!

    • @mikkywhalan
      @mikkywhalan 5 лет назад +80

      Yeah
      Finally something new for once,

    • @brendandoocey7956
      @brendandoocey7956 5 лет назад +8

      Carla Brogan
      K

    • @mikkywhalan
      @mikkywhalan 5 лет назад +5

      @@brendandoocey7956
      What's does K Mean?

    • @duffman18
      @duffman18 4 года назад +68

      @@mikkywhalan it'd slang for Ketamine, a recreational drug that's pretty fun. They must have been on some when they posted that

    • @jamesclifford9814
      @jamesclifford9814 4 года назад +61

      “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?” replaced by “you and me babe how about it?” 😂

  • @kellie7512
    @kellie7512 4 года назад +185

    Who else thinks the line " I'll do the stars with you ,anytime yet " is just so beautiful , gee words are so powerful and some bands seem to get it right ,dire straights did xx

  • @danielezuccon4285
    @danielezuccon4285 10 месяцев назад +13

    Sono passati 40 anni e questa canzone dovrebbe essere dichiarata Patrimonio dell'umanità.. 🎉

    • @STEFANO98504
      @STEFANO98504 22 дня назад

      Fantastica!!!! Anni 80 unici!!!! Abbiamo vissuto momenti indimenticabili..... Non ci servivano i telefonini di oggi per divertirci. L-"emozione di aspettare una telefonata al telefono fisso non aveva eguali!!!! TI AMO BETTY E TU AMI ME LO SO!!!!!!

  • @blackcorp0001
    @blackcorp0001 3 месяца назад +8

    One of the greatest guitar bands ever

  • @badzioch64
    @badzioch64 Год назад +261

    One of my favourite songs for 40 years. Gets better and better. I miss Dire Straits

  • @jazgreen1009
    @jazgreen1009 3 года назад +195

    One of the most beautiful songs ever! And if you disagree - What ya gonna do about it?!

  • @user-vi3cf6dm6c
    @user-vi3cf6dm6c 4 месяца назад +7

    Love this song so much. This video on the other hand... WTF???

    • @nevermindthe
      @nevermindthe Месяц назад +1

      The silver chain, the tear....the 80s mixture of surreal & very literal. So weird!

  • @warrenweidmann563
    @warrenweidmann563 10 месяцев назад +9

    I've always thought that the closing guitar solo's call and response notes starting at 4:53 were a depiction of the two star-crossed lovers and the wonders of their shared young love, but these hypnotizing notes and their echoes rather portray an entitled Juliet's slow, and unsympathetic stroll down the road of fame, and away from poor Romeo, forever...

  • @sandystephens120
    @sandystephens120 Год назад +308

    I learned to play this when my wife passed away and it still breaks my heart listening to it but it is a great song perhaps the greatest love song ever x

    • @hertenbergershenanigans
      @hertenbergershenanigans Год назад +11

      The old saying… “it is better to have loved and lost…
      I believe this is true. I believe that we can know love is real and everlasting because we have both received and given it.
      I am sorry for that loss. I think that we disdain death so much because we know it does not belong.
      To be born again, we must die.
      When faced with the prospect, let us all walk, or run, to Love, Life, and Light, so that we may see each other again.

    • @anthonycouldlewissimmons
      @anthonycouldlewissimmons Год назад +3

      Just keep Safe whith love TONY SIMMONS i London north l last my mum and dad LAST year dad in April and in December 2 weeks b FOR xama 93 years old

    • @jmoriarty8000
      @jmoriarty8000 Год назад +1

      It’s definitely up there for me. My favourite is Thank you- Zeppelin

    • @jacquelinefortune8621
      @jacquelinefortune8621 Год назад +3

      I'm so sorry for your loss. Agreed, it's the greatest love song ever x

    • @brandymcevoy2481
      @brandymcevoy2481 Год назад +2

      I actually refer to this as the greatest love song ever written, always. Sorry about your wife.

  • @MarwanMovies
    @MarwanMovies 4 года назад +426

    Anyone Here Enjoyng Mark Knopfler Masterpieces during The Covid-2019 ?

    • @sheilam.santos6639
      @sheilam.santos6639 4 года назад +3

      The best guitar.

    • @siddhantsankar6730
      @siddhantsankar6730 4 года назад +3

      Regardless he couldn't write a love song as stated in the lyrics, this inversion keeps us up at nights.

    • @paulmurphy5547
      @paulmurphy5547 4 года назад +2

      This album brings back great memories, I didn’t really like the direction they took after this but yeah Making Movies was a great album

    • @kathleenohora6517
      @kathleenohora6517 4 года назад +7

      Every time I hear this song the world stops spinning and I feel such love, amazing perfection💕💕💕💕💕

    • @007JHS
      @007JHS 4 года назад +1

      Totally!

  • @2010dame
    @2010dame Год назад +58

    released 43 years ago and still sounds amazing now as it did back then

  • @alinskyrocks784
    @alinskyrocks784 7 месяцев назад +49

    I listened to this when I thought our marriage was failing and it strangely brought me peace. 20 years on (and still happily married) it still does!

    • @cabeast2233
      @cabeast2233 7 месяцев назад

      W

    • @mjchecksfield914
      @mjchecksfield914 6 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, when you get to twenty years, the cracks start showing! I still hanging on now year 30 thanks to great music like this which holds me together when the pain gets too much wondering where the love went!

  • @mattcameron9349
    @mattcameron9349 4 года назад +26

    There’s something slightly magical about the fade out on this song. I’m 44 years old, but whenever I watch this now, by the time the song is fading out I am right back to being that 12 year old boy in the mid-80’s, watching it with the lights off in my bedroom on my small portable television, playing from a beat up old VHS player clunking away a pirated copy I recorded from VH1, and with my old CB radio crackling away from under my bunk-bed.
    It’s like a time-machine, yet timeless in itself.

  • @annadudek9941
    @annadudek9941 3 года назад +78

    “Can’t do anything except be in love with you”, masterpiece, nothing to add but said everything. Just beautiful 🤩

  • @eyevolutionsmithljw
    @eyevolutionsmithljw Год назад +12

    This song is the anthem of my school sweet heart break up and aftermath. Such sweet memories and regrets. I've lived a whole life after that... This song is like a time machine and all I will say is I still yearn for her. Just don't tell anyone

  • @oiabuni
    @oiabuni 6 месяцев назад +17

    Mark Knopfler is the best of the best and this song is simple and special!

  • @taylorboyle2960
    @taylorboyle2960 5 месяцев назад +15

    I’m 15 and it’s 12am on a Friday night, this song just plays in my head on repeat 24/7 and always will be

  • @vaderfett3229
    @vaderfett3229 Год назад +30

    "I can't do everything but I'll do anything for you
    I can't do anything except be in love with you" THIS... these words are what it means to love a woman with every ounce of your being. This isn't a song - it's a beautiful poem.

  • @allDGoodNamesRtaken
    @allDGoodNamesRtaken 3 года назад +776

    One time, just on a whim, I took my wife's hand (maybe it was before we were even married), and said, "You and me babe, how about it?"
    This became, forever, my song for her.
    She left the planet eleven years ago. (Childhood illness finally caught up with her.) I'm even happily re-married, to a childhood crush. But today, with my wife out of the house, I listened to his and had a good cry.
    Happiness doesn't relieve pain. It just counterbalances it.

    • @michaelreid322
      @michaelreid322 3 года назад +33

      Beautifully put.

    • @adan7420
      @adan7420 3 года назад +14

      Oh. Sorry for your loss.

    • @featuredcats3390
      @featuredcats3390 3 года назад +36

      Sounds like you're a lucky man to have had two amazing women in your life from the 80's. This kinda sums up my own experience with a first love from the 80's too. To have loved and lost is both sweet and painful.

    • @chrisgaulding4820
      @chrisgaulding4820 3 года назад +17

      This made me tear up!!

    • @dunjazgonc4457
      @dunjazgonc4457 3 года назад +5

      stay strong

  • @david8_0
    @david8_0 6 месяцев назад +13

    I was born in 1979, I remember my Dad playing these in the car. Marvellous ❤

  • @lizxu322
    @lizxu322 9 месяцев назад +5

    This song fucks me up every single time

  • @1sttvbn
    @1sttvbn Год назад +37

    That closing guitar solo at 4:50 is so damn melodic. Doesn’t hurt that the babe can really break it down too…

    • @ericb2501
      @ericb2501 Год назад

      He makes a 🎸 😢

  • @allthatis8327
    @allthatis8327 5 лет назад +361

    Absolute classic. 2019 anyone?

  • @jupitersailing
    @jupitersailing Год назад +52

    This song is so clever and beautiful, how on earth does the human mind devise something so incredibly wonderful?

    • @knojohn8787
      @knojohn8787 Год назад +2

      I think the most wonderful thing is to think about that while listening to this songs . It's the situations that people face and try to deal with . I just can't live without music anymore

    • @rakino4418
      @rakino4418 5 месяцев назад +1

      Its up there with Shelter from the Storm and Tangled Up in Blue by Bob Dylan for storytelling

    • @jupitersailing
      @jupitersailing 5 месяцев назад

      @@knojohn8787 Nope, you are right. Music is fundamental to the existence for some of us, and with modern technology there is no reason why you shouldn't be enjoying it for hours every day. It turns a bus journey or commute into a pleasure. For postmen and similar jobs there is music all day, and for anyone whose jobs were once solitary and boring there is now a huge world of your favourite music and the opportunity to get into music you may have thought was not to your taste. With so much time to listen, we can try anything. For those of us who've been enjoying music for 60 or 70 years we are now so lucky that we don't have to turn on a hifi and select a record; instead we can simply pop on the headphones, select one of thousands of albums and away we go, and the quality of sound can be extraordinarily good, in some cases to match the best hi-fi systems available.
      I really love your statement: 'I just can't live without music any more'. To people like us, life without music would be empty and colourless.

    • @keithm9337
      @keithm9337 4 месяца назад

      I have wondered that myself. These people are gifted, no question about it. There is somthing special in their brain that allows them to come up with the wonder which is these beautiful songs.
      I have played guitar for 50 years, and all the time I have spent, I could never come up with something like this. They are very special, gifted people that allows something like this to happen.

    • @chrisnotaro1525
      @chrisnotaro1525 4 месяца назад

      Simply, through their personal experiences. Creative people tend to be more sensitive, so when love is lost, it affects them deeply.

  • @bronsonhilliard6841
    @bronsonhilliard6841 Год назад +22

    Flawless. The best pop love song of the past 40-plus years.

  • @21hazza
    @21hazza 4 года назад +181

    This song is an emotional journey and the line " I can't do anything except be in love with you" gets me every time. ❤️

    • @jamesclukey7488
      @jamesclukey7488 2 года назад +7

      " I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die ," or, " what happened to thick or thin ?" Loss of love, broken vows, betrayal. It's all there.

    • @donnacsrpenter7226
      @donnacsrpenter7226 2 года назад +1

      My favorite song luv Dire Stairs n got to meet the band it was fucking awesome!!!!

    • @MrsSlocombesPuddyCat
      @MrsSlocombesPuddyCat 10 месяцев назад

      Creepy stalker territory ❤

    • @rakino4418
      @rakino4418 5 месяцев назад +1

      Its just raw honesty. Its the whole song condensed into a single line.

    • @chrisnotaro1525
      @chrisnotaro1525 4 месяца назад +1

      If you think it's "creeper stalker territory" you will never experience the beauty of true, and real love,therefore Your life will never be full, but empty.

  • @5150show
    @5150show Год назад +76

    I was broken hearted as a young man cos the girl I loved ditched me for another dude , this song made the pain hurt more . When I hear this song 35 years later , I still think of her.

    • @melloncolliemelon7948
      @melloncolliemelon7948 Год назад +4

      😭😭

    • @peteeasterman6025
      @peteeasterman6025 11 месяцев назад +1

      Same here

    • @PELOTON3090
      @PELOTON3090 11 месяцев назад +2

      the same history in another place in the world (ushuaia argentina the weather ist rainy and windy like in scotland)

    • @RectorSihlangu-uh2st
      @RectorSihlangu-uh2st 8 месяцев назад +1

      Im sorry my man

    • @chrisnotaro1525
      @chrisnotaro1525 4 месяца назад +1

      Same here brother, " just that the timing was wrong" I've not felt love for 40 years.

  • @maryn-zs6ly
    @maryn-zs6ly 12 дней назад +3

    all I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme 😭

  • @johngrant2502
    @johngrant2502 11 дней назад +1

    Thanks for sharing your genius with the world Mr. Knopfler. Your music will live on for thousands of years.

  • @lynnea.9887
    @lynnea.9887 3 года назад +6

    Ricky. If you’re still listening.....
    How about it Babe?
    Miss you everyday. Even now ❤️
    Lucy

  • @KatKrueger
    @KatKrueger 2 года назад +177

    Two hours into 2022 and I’m crying at beauty and hope that this song brings.
    ✌🏻💜

    • @javierolaya6785
      @javierolaya6785 2 года назад +3

      The hope never die

    • @joycecandido6317
      @joycecandido6317 2 года назад +7

      I agree after decades , so riveting, and after 53 years apart I'm now with the first love of my life , you can't make this stuff up ❤️ love you til I die. .....

    • @jxchamb
      @jxchamb 2 года назад +7

      Mark's vocals are so gorgeous. So much emotion in this song.

    • @3isammartil478
      @3isammartil478 2 года назад

      Mejores tiempos de oro

    • @GenericAccountVLR
      @GenericAccountVLR 2 года назад +2

      @@jxchamb And the guitar solo at the end. Devastating.

  • @robertbroadbent3038
    @robertbroadbent3038 7 дней назад

    Dire Straits were perfect in a perfect time.

  • @punkeasy
    @punkeasy Год назад +2

    Legend has it; those actors are still walking like that today.

  • @maryashworth2963
    @maryashworth2963 2 года назад +164

    Knopfler at his understated best. A true gem of a song. Magical !

  • @cynthialangley7338
    @cynthialangley7338 Год назад +25

    This song is the most beautiful expression about true love, which is eternal. 🌹

  • @tehilovely
    @tehilovely 11 месяцев назад +3

    2023 still great music❤

  • @user-ck8cx1un4k
    @user-ck8cx1un4k 10 месяцев назад +41

    I’m 13 and ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved the songs my dad played for me, he is playing this one now, appreciate your loved ones, they won’t be there forever, and we are lucky to have any at all 💗

    • @xota-prebs4593
      @xota-prebs4593 9 месяцев назад

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @paraloidb72
      @paraloidb72 8 месяцев назад +1

      Very wise comment. Love your Dad he won't be there forever, though his love will be

  • @a-aron3257
    @a-aron3257 4 года назад +166

    After filming this video the director shouted “your move Spielberg”

  • @demo9299
    @demo9299 3 года назад +10

    I love how they used this song on Hot Fuzz movie

    • @rezurexiiii
      @rezurexiiii 3 года назад +1

      And Arthur Brown Fire

    • @demo9299
      @demo9299 3 года назад

      @@rezurexiiii yes, indeed

  • @mand9330
    @mand9330 5 месяцев назад +5

    I was born in 1979 and my Dad was a huge Dire Straits fan.
    Mark Knopfler will always be a legend in our house ❤

    • @lukew7343
      @lukew7343 4 месяца назад +1

      I was also born in 79 and my dad also was a huge Dire Straits fan. Listening to this music really brings back memories of my childhood.

  • @f1refall
    @f1refall Год назад +5

    wonderful song, horribly video to accompany it. Think slightly less literal, when the story is that vivid

  • @johnsurrey7426
    @johnsurrey7426 3 года назад +12

    The song is actually about Mark Knopfler’s brief romance with Holly Vincent. During an interview about it, she said about Mark Knopler ‘I used to have a scene with him’. So that went into the song.

  • @billy9361
    @billy9361 4 года назад +114

    Why are the rest of dire straits members so underappreciated, the bass in Sultans of Swing, the keyboards in the song Brothers in arms, the drums in this song and tunnel of love are all brilliant.

    • @mrgilbe1
      @mrgilbe1 3 года назад +10

      Fun fact: many of bruce springsteen's E street band were playing on the tunnel of love album, including this song.

    • @stevestefanick9886
      @stevestefanick9886 2 года назад +1

      @@mrgilbe1 You mean the Making Movies Album?

    • @blbeats5789
      @blbeats5789 2 года назад +4

      @@stevestefanick9886 Yes he does, the keyboard player from the E street band, Roy Bittan, played on Romeo & Juliet and Tunnel of Love etc.

    • @SjorLovre
      @SjorLovre Год назад +1

      the drummer in sultans of swing (alchemy live) is the most amazing ive ever heard

    • @amalaletajohnson8745
      @amalaletajohnson8745 Год назад

      because most people dont even want to analyse the components of the music, if it sounds good, thats enough. Roses smell nice no-one cares about the protein structure of the chemical compound that makes the smell. Getting in too deep in the analysis often obstructs your appreciation of it.

  • @cereretrop
    @cereretrop 7 месяцев назад +5

    Knopfler is definitely the GOAT

  • @aliceflanagan3672
    @aliceflanagan3672 6 месяцев назад +2

    Knopfler gets into your soul and rummages around.

  • @saminkarki232
    @saminkarki232 6 лет назад +541

    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..............

    • @bimarshakalikote807
      @bimarshakalikote807 5 лет назад +2

      Nepali ko comment dekhda ramro lagyo.

    • @stevemills4662
      @stevemills4662 5 лет назад +19

      You exploded in my heart

    • @marktaylor3809
      @marktaylor3809 5 лет назад +6

      There is always someone who types the lyrics, why do this, we all know this song mate.

    • @scotsman8552
      @scotsman8552 5 лет назад +31

      @@marktaylor3809 shut up ya hotdog

    • @marktaylor3809
      @marktaylor3809 5 лет назад

      lol i love yummy hotdogs with onions and tomato sauce mmmm.

  • @ramen7317
    @ramen7317 3 года назад +101

    I've searched for this song for quite some time now...Dad used to play this song alot when I was a kid.. Glad I finally found it❤️..

  • @vickytoriat295
    @vickytoriat295 7 месяцев назад +3

    My dad loved Dire Straits. Same birthday as Mr. Knopfler. Miss you dad 😢 every day ❤

  • @JohnJoannou-xq5rq
    @JohnJoannou-xq5rq 9 месяцев назад +27

    One of the best rock bands of the modern era!

  • @HumphMcPaxo
    @HumphMcPaxo 2 года назад +5

    "There never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo..."

  • @peterisnardi1197
    @peterisnardi1197 3 года назад +9

    Given enough time, even regrets become beautiful...

  • @hellotelephone1
    @hellotelephone1 3 месяца назад +2

    hats off to the designers of this music video.

  • @AsInLifeSoInMusic
    @AsInLifeSoInMusic 9 месяцев назад +5

    We use to share our thoughts, influenced by discovering and listening to great songs like this.
    Now, everyone shares thoughts influenced by what social media tells them to listen to.

  • @mojokid5
    @mojokid5 5 лет назад +30

    “If ever there was a tale of woe, it was of Juliet and her Romeo.” - Simon Skinner

    • @AndyCigars
      @AndyCigars 4 года назад +4

      Yarp.

    • @E6hosting
      @E6hosting 3 года назад +1

      "Sergeant Angle to the managers office, managers office sergeant Angel"

    • @ondstzofny
      @ondstzofny 3 года назад

      "You never watched Bad Boys 2?!?!"

  • @jack_myers
    @jack_myers 4 года назад +7

    1:10 the most literal interpretation of lyrics...

  • @etherdog
    @etherdog Год назад +6

    Gotta do another vid--this is a nightmare.

  • @liredelgiles
    @liredelgiles 13 дней назад +1

    This song still gets me now just sad as hell 😢

  • @bernardkatic6165
    @bernardkatic6165 2 года назад +97

    After so many years, still absolutely the best love song ever....

    • @jackgammon4084
      @jackgammon4084 2 года назад +3

      " You said 'I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die' "

  • @srvfan454
    @srvfan454 3 года назад +17

    I lip sync this to my wife sometimes in the kitchen while we are cooking. I love it so much!

  • @kburd67
    @kburd67 5 дней назад +2

    Great Song - bizarre video

  • @markfewings8614
    @markfewings8614 5 месяцев назад +3

    this and tunnel of love .. standout

  • @martinenyx-filmstuff305
    @martinenyx-filmstuff305 Год назад +37

    I knew this song was a masterpiece but I didn’t know the music video for it was one as well. Wow.

  • @tariquemahfuz6582
    @tariquemahfuz6582 3 года назад +24

    This song was released even before my mother was born. Dire straits has successfully become immortal

  • @suemorris728
    @suemorris728 10 месяцев назад +8

    Possibly the most beautiful song ever written.

  • @KennyEvansUK
    @KennyEvansUK 5 месяцев назад +15

    The term genius is thrown around but this is such a profoundly great song in so many levels. The guitar part is original and deeply emotive. The lyric, well it's one of the best written, so many great turns and twists and a bright story plays out in your head when you hear it. Mark paints a beatiful picture with light and shade, it's an example of human songwriting that should be sent to the stars to demonstrate what amazing talents we have outside of war making and hate.
    Thank you Mark and the gang for creating this piece of sheer brilliance, may it last as long as the great tunes of our time.