Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
By
Billy Joel
Album
The Stranger
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♪
♪ 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,
mmm ♪
♪ 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,
got a good office ♪
♪ Got a new wife, got a new
life and the family is fine ♪
♪ Oh, lost touch long ago ♪
♪ You lost weight, I did
not know ♪
♪ You could ever look so nice
After so much time ♪
♪ 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 car
top down and the radio on ♪
♪ 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 their
marriage should 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 waving
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 ♪
♪ Yeah, 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 can 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 ♪
♪ And that's all I heard about
Brenda and Eddie ♪
♪ Can't tell you more 'cause I
told you already ♪
♪ And here we are waving
Brenda and Eddie goodbye ♪
♪
♪ Bottle of red, bottle
of white ♪
♪ Whatever kind of mood
you're in tonight ♪
♪ I'll meet you anytime
you want ♪
♪ In our Italian restaurant ♪
♪
