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Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

Billy Joel

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Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

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A bottle of white, a bottle of redPerhaps a bottle of rose insteadWe'll get a table near the streetIn our old familiar placeYou and I, face to face ooohA bottle of red, a bottle of whiteIt all depends on your appetiteI'll meet you any time you wantIn our Italian Restaurant.Things are okay with me these daysGot a good job, got a good officeGot a new wife, got a new lifeAnd the family is fineOh, we lost touch long agoYou lost weight, I did not knowYou 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 jeansOh, you'd drop a dime in the box play a songAbout New OrleansCold beer, hot lightsMy sweet romantic teenage nightsBrenda and Eddie were the popular steadiesAnd the king and the queen at the promRiding around with the car top downAnd the radio onNobody looked any finer or was more of a hit at the Parkway DinerWe never knew we could want more than that out of lifeSurely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to surviveBrenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75When they decided the marriage would be at the end of JulyEveryone said they were crazyBrenda you know you're much too lazyAnd Eddie could never afford to live that kind of lifeBut there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye.They got an apartment with deep pile carpetAnd a couple of paintings from SearsA big waterbed that they bought with the breadThey had saved for a couple of yearsBut they started to fight when the money got tightAnd they just didn't count on the tearsWell they lived for a while in a very nice styleBut it's always the same in the endThey got a divorce as a matter of courseAnd they parted the closest of friendsThen the king and the queen went back to the greenBut you can never go back there again.Brenda and Eddie had had it alreadyBy the summer of '75From the high to the low to the end of the showFor the rest of their livesThey couldn't go back to the greasersThe best they could do was pick up the piecesBut we always knew they would both find a way to get byOh, that's all I heard about Brenda and EddieCan't tell you more cause I told you alreadyAnd here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye.A bottle of red, and bottle of whiteWhatever kind of mood you're in tonightI'll meet you anytime you wantIn our Italian Restaurant
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