Scenes from an Italian Restaurant – English Lyrics

• By: Billy Joel
• Album: The Stranger

Lyrics & Translation

Learning a language through music is a fantastic journey, and Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" is a perfect starting point. The song's narrative structure and vivid storytelling will introduce you to a rich vocabulary related to memories, relationships, and the passage of time. Its blend of musical styles also offers a unique way to experience the rhythm and flow of English.

[English]

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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 ♪

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