Heh, I hate this movie, but I love the soundtrack and I love Romeo and Juliet :D
I think this is from Mercutio's point of view. His first line is "Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance" = "Do that stupid dance for me".
He's saying that he thinks his buddy Romeo is stupid for being in love, but he admires his poetic way of speaking ("I can't sing the songs that you sing/I can't find the gorgeous words"). Mercutio just wants Romeo to hang out with him and the boys the way they used to do, go to parties, pick up chicks, drink, fight, have a good time and forget about love. In the play, after he and Romeo have engaged in a battle of words, Mercutio says, "Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art thou what thou art..."
"The summer days can lead to the bad blood" is a paraphrase of one of Benvolio's lines (Benvolio is Romeo's cousin, their third friend): "For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring." The heat makes everyone crazy and Mercutio ends up dead because of this; he gets into a battle with Juliet's cousin, Tybalt and it doesn't go so well...
If you look in this song in the context of the play, it's actually very sad. Romeo, Benvolio and Mercutio are torn apart by death (only Benvolio survives), and they can never be Verona's local gods again...
Heh, I hate this movie, but I love the soundtrack and I love Romeo and Juliet :D
I think this is from Mercutio's point of view. His first line is "Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance" = "Do that stupid dance for me".
He's saying that he thinks his buddy Romeo is stupid for being in love, but he admires his poetic way of speaking ("I can't sing the songs that you sing/I can't find the gorgeous words"). Mercutio just wants Romeo to hang out with him and the boys the way they used to do, go to parties, pick up chicks, drink, fight, have a good time and forget about love. In the play, after he and Romeo have engaged in a battle of words, Mercutio says, "Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art thou what thou art..."
"The summer days can lead to the bad blood" is a paraphrase of one of Benvolio's lines (Benvolio is Romeo's cousin, their third friend): "For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring." The heat makes everyone crazy and Mercutio ends up dead because of this; he gets into a battle with Juliet's cousin, Tybalt and it doesn't go so well...
If you look in this song in the context of the play, it's actually very sad. Romeo, Benvolio and Mercutio are torn apart by death (only Benvolio survives), and they can never be Verona's local gods again...
Awesome analysis.
Awesome analysis.