Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
Words & Music:
Billy Joel
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A bottle of white, a bottle of
red, perhaps a bottle of rosˇ instead.
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Get a table near the street in
our old familiar place, you and I, face to face, mmmmm.
A bottle of red, a bottle of
white, it all depends on your appetite.
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I'll meet you anytime you want
in our Italian Restaurant.
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Things are okay with me these
days; got a good job, got a good office.
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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.
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Do you remember those days
hanging out at The Village Green?
Engineer boots, leather jackets
and tight blue jeans.
You drop a dime in the box play
the song about New Orleans.
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Cold beer, hot lights. my sweet
romantic teenage nights.
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Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-
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Brenda and Eddie were the
popular steadies and the king and the queen of the prom.
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Riding around with the car top
down and the radio on.
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Nobody looked any finer, or was
more of a hit at the Parkway Diner.
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We never knew we could want
more than that out of life.
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Sure that Brenda and Eddie
would always know how to survive.
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Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-
Brenda and Eddy were still
going steady in the summer of seventy five
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 waving
Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-
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Well, they got an apartment
with deep pile carpet and a couple of paintings from Sears.
A big waterbed that they bought
with the bread they had saved for a couple of years.
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They started to fight when the
money got tight and they just didn't count on the tears.
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Whoa-oh, whoa-oh...yeah, rock
'n' roll!
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Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-
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. Whoa-oh, whoa-oh...
Brenda and Eddie had had it
already by the summer of seventy five.
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.
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That's all I heard about Brenda
and Eddie.
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I can't tell you more than I've
told you already.
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And here we are waving Brenda
and Eddie goodbye.
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh- Oh-oh,
oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-
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A bottle of red, oooh, a 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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