Scenes From An Italian Restaurant lyrics

Song information

Artist: Billy Joel
Album: The Stranger

Lyrics

A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead
We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I - face to face
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
In our italian restaurant

Things are okay with me these days
Got a good job, I got a good office
I got a new wife, got a new life
And the family is fine
Oh, we lost touch long ago
You lost weight - I did not know
You could ever look so nice after so much time

Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green?
Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
Oh, you drop a dime in the box play the song about new orleans
Cold beer, hot lights, my sweet romantic teenage nights

Brenda and eddie were the popular steadies
And the king and the queen of the prom
Riding around with the mustang top down and the radio on q 104.3
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the parkway diner
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Surely brenda and eddie would always know how to survive

Brenda and eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of july
Everyone said they were crazy
"Brenda you know that you're much too lazy
And eddie could never afford to live that kind of life."
Oh, but there we were wavin' brenda and eddie goodbye

Well they got an apartment with deep pile carpets
And a couple of paintings from sears
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
They had saved for a couple of years
They started to fight when the money got tight
And they just didn't count on the tears

And rock and roll!

Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter of course
And they parted the closest of friends
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
But you could never go back there again

Brenda and eddie had had it already by the summer of '75
From the high to the low to the end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to the greasers
The best they could do was pick up their pieces
We always knew they would both find a way to get by
Ohhh that's all I heard about brenda and eddie
Can't tell you more 'cause I've told you already
And here we are wavin' brenda and eddie goodbye

A bottle of red, bottled whites
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our italian restaurant

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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