Lyrics Scene From An Italian Restaurant - Live - Billy Joel

(This is a, uh, this is a brand new song)
(This is a, uh, a premier I guess)
(I can dedicate this to, uh, Cristiano's restaurant)
(This is called, uh, "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant")

A bottle of whites, 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, mhmm
A bottle of red, a bottle of whites
It all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet 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, I got a new life
And the family is fine
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
Yeah, you'd drop a dime in the box and played a song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights

(Oh, oh, oh)
(Oh, oh, oh)

Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
And the king and the queen at the prom
Riding around with the car top down
And the radio on

Ah, 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
Whoa, Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive

(Oh, oh, oh)
(Oh, oh, oh)

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 waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye

(Oh, oh, oh)

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
They started to fight when the money got tight
And they just didn't count on the tears
(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

(Oh, oh, oh)

Yeah, 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
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

Oh, 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

(Oh, oh, oh)
(Oh, oh, oh)
(Oh, oh, oh)

A bottle of reds, a bottle of whites
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our Italian restaurant

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

(Thank you)