[Spoken] From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents strife [Verse 1] A tomb in old Verona Bears witness to a tragedy Two young lovers, dead and cold Beyond the fates, how could this be? [Verse 2] Tibalt dead, Romeo cast out Juliet, alone, a tear she sheds Her father, now, has Paris chose As one to share her marriage bed [Bridge 1] Under moon and sun Their world is now undone [Instrumental] [Verse 3] Distraught, she to the friar goes A vial he gives to make her sleep A deathly mimic now she has In order that her vows she'd keep [Verse 4] A message, then, to Romeo Whilst in the tomb her body lay Disaster strikes, and all's not well The message, it has gone astray [Bridge 2] All has gone awry World's ending, it is nigh [Instrumental] [Verse 5] Word, though, comes from Balthasar That Juliet lays in her tomb Comes Romeo to be with her To lay with her and meet his doom [Verse 6] The beauty of his love's still there Though pale, and to the touch quite cold His poison, now, he does consume And tragedy does thus unfold [Bridge 3] The houses' old dispute Bears its bitter fruit [Instrumental] [Bridge] Juliet awakes Her love beside her dead Calamity before her To grief she is now wed Taking up her husband's blade So sweet the sharpened edge Thrusting deep within herself She keeps her wedding pledge [Instrumental] [Spoken] Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things Some shall be pardoned and some punished For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo