Romeo & Juliet (Dire Straits - live)

Sometimes even riches from rags is hollow. Sometimes love is not enough to bring someone into your life to stay. Sometimes two people just simply need different things. No right, no wrong. It is what it is. I suppose the biggest pitfall lies in dreaming someone else's dream, for no two people can have entirely identical dreams. When the dream becomes real for one, it may be shattered for the other. And that can be so hard to bear, so hard.

I have been guilty many times of thinking what I wanted was what my partner wanted, was something I should strive for, could share in, if only we worked hard enough, together. This song has spoken to that feeling for me for a couple of decades. At least now I have a glimmer of understanding. Doesn't mean I am "better" now, or will be any time soon. Just means I need my own dreams to pursue.

I cannot recommend the Dire Straits video "On the Night" strongly enough. It contains a 10-minute version of this song, featuring saxophone, keyboard and steel guitar solos along with Knopfler's incomparable guitar work. That is the version originally posted here, removed for copyright violations. A shame that, as it prompted me to buy the video even before it was removed from YouTube. I wonder how many more were sold, and now will not be?
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