Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (Live at Shea Stadium, Queens, NY - July 2008)-Billy Joel

[ti:Scenes From An Italian Restaurant(Live At Shea, 2008)] [ar:Billy Joel] [al:Live At Shea Stadium] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (Live at Shea Stadium, Queens, NY - July 2008) - Billy Joel [00:13.72]A bottle of white a bottle of red [00:18.34] [00:19.71]Perhaps a bottle of rose instead [00:24.31] [00:26.65]We'll get a table near the street [00:28.93] [00:29.81]In our old familiar place [00:32.25] [00:32.95]You and I face to face oooh [00:38.24] [00:39.62]A bottle of red a bottle of white [00:44.04] [00:45.78]It all depends on your appetite [00:50.67] [00:52.21]I'll meet you any time you want [00:55.58]In our Italian Restaurant [00:59.85] [01:40.64]Things are okay with me these days [01:42.90]Got a good job got a good office [01:45.46]Got a new wife got a new life [01:47.94]And the family is fine [01:50.14] [01:50.84]Oh we lost touch long ago [01:53.04] [01:53.71]You lost weight I did not know [01:56.34]You could ever look so nice after so much time [01:59.81] [02:01.07]Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green [02:04.34] [02:06.25]Engineer boots leather jackets and tight blue jeans [02:09.27] [02:10.56]Oh you'd drop a dime in the box play a song [02:13.18]About New Orleans [02:14.86] [02:16.56]Cold beer hot lights [02:18.93]My sweet romantic teenage nights [02:22.16] [03:08.99]Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies [03:10.45] [03:10.97]And the king and the queen at the prom [03:13.58]Riding around with the car top down [03:15.67]And the radio on [03:17.54] [03:18.37]Nobody looked any finer or was more of a hit at the ParkwayDiner [03:22.58]We never knew we could want more than that out of life [03:27.04]Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive [03:30.86] [03:39.52]Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75 [03:44.61]When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July [03:48.72]Everyone said they were crazy [03:51.06]Brenda you know you're much too lazy [03:54.02]And Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life [03:57.07] [03:57.69]But there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye [04:01.26] [04:05.26]They got an apartment with deep pile carpet [04:06.60]And a couple of paintings from Sears [04:09.83]A big waterbed that they bought with the bread [04:11.71]They had saved for a couple of years [04:14.61]But they started to fight when the money got tight [04:16.47]And they just didn't count on the tears [04:18.78] [04:48.34]Well they lived for a while in a very nice style [04:50.63]But it's always the same in the end [04:53.29]They got a divorce as a matter of course [04:55.18]And they parted the closest of friends [04:57.43]Then the king and the queen went back to the green [04:59.33]But you can never go back there again [05:01.54] [05:05.88]Brenda and Eddie had had it already [05:07.34]By the summer of '75 [05:08.84] [05:10.02]From the high to the low to the end of the show [05:12.31]For the rest of their lives [05:13.85] [05:14.97]They couldn't go back to the greasers [05:16.25] [05:17.32]The best they could do was pick up the pieces [05:19.80]But we always knew they would both find a way to get by [05:22.69] [05:23.25]Oh that's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie [05:26.60]Can't tell you more cause I told you already [05:28.97]And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye [05:31.89] [06:21.28]A bottle of red and bottle of white [06:25.76] [06:28.64]Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight [06:33.85] [06:36.48]I'll meet you anytime you want [06:39.59]In our Italian Restaurant