Swamp air thick, hearts sticky as the resin
Gunpowder vows, this love ain’t adolescent
Capulet kisses, Montague sins
Feudin' bloodlines where the heartbreak begins
Balcony dreams, but the ladder’s a chain
No fair Verona, just thunder and rain
We steal from the rich, we rob from the lies
Modern-day bandits, love in disguise
Two hearts outlawed, running from the gallows
Poison on the lips, every word shallow
We’re a modern tragedy, love with no remedy
Romeo’s revolver, Juliet’s felony
Bullet for a promise, dagger for a truth
Our love’s a crime scene, eternal and uncouth
Skull on my ring, poison on my lips,
Thorny path, blood-soaked fingertips.
Call me Othello, this love got me jealous,
World burns slow, but the fire’s still zealous.
Capulet chrome, Montague steel,
Trigger-happy heart, too numb to feel.
Runnin’ from Verona, smoke in the rearview,
Graveyard shift, every night’s déjà vu.
Rebel and rose, in a bed full of sin,
Venom in her kiss, it’s where death begins.
A love so raw, it don’t care who knows,
Modern-day Juliet, my outlaw rose.
Swamp mud thick, life’s no soliloquy,
Fate dealt the hand, we write the eulogy.
Tatted vows scrawled in a whiskey haze,
Our love’s Macbeth, just counting the days.
Pistol sonnets, I recite ‘em at dawn,
Every bar’s loaded, my clip’s the Quran.
She my Ophelia, drownin’ in the liquor,
Romeo ridin’, my finger on the trigger.
What’s in a name when the dirt’s your crown?
A rose smells sweet six feet underground.
Pistol-packing prose, Shakespeare in the drawl
To be or not to be, when the sirens call
Juliet’s scars, they tell tales of war
Romeo’s hands stained from the liquor store
“Parting is such sweet sorrow,” she said with a grin
But tomorrow’s never promised when the devil walks in
Ambition bites nails, revenge sips the wine
We die every night, but the sunrise aligns with a modern day tragedy edged on tombstones the legend of an outlaw Romeo and modern day rebel rose Juliet
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