Scenes from an Italian Restaurant-Billy Joel

[ti:Scenes From An Italian Restaur] [ar:Billy Joel] [al:The Stranger (Remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.93]Scenes From An Italian Restaurant [00:02.83] [00:14.77]A bottle of white a bottle of red [00:21.33]Perhaps a bottle of rose instead [00:28.58]We'll get a table near the street [00:31.64]In our old familiar place [00:34.77]You and I face to face oooh [00:41.89]A bottle of red a bottle of white [00:48.39]It all depends on your appetite [00:55.83]I'll meet you any time you want [00:58.89]In our Italian Restaurant [01:27.02] [01:44.21]Things are okay with me these days [01:46.71]Got a good job got a good office [01:48.89]Got a new wife got a new life [01:51.08]And the family is fine [01:53.45]Oh we lost touch long ago [01:56.21]You lost weight I did not know [01:59.39]You could ever look so nice after so much time [02:03.71]Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green [02:09.14]Engineer boots leather jackets and tight blue jeans [02:13.27]Oh you'd drop a dime in the box play a song [02:17.39]About New Orleans [02:18.08]Cold beer hot lights [02:21.89]My sweet romantic teenage nights [02:23.77] [03:12.40]Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies [03:14.33]And the king and the queen at the prom [03:17.15]Riding around with the car top down [03:18.96]And the radio on [03:21.96]Nobody looked any finer or was more of a hit at the ParkwayDiner [03:26.02]We never knew we could want more than that out of life [03:30.58]Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive [03:35.15]Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75 [03:48.71]When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July [03:53.65]Everyone said they were crazy [03:55.90]Brenda you know you're much too lazy [03:58.27]And Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life [04:03.02]But there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye [04:10.02]They got an apartment with deep pile carpet [04:12.77]And a couple of paintings from Sears [04:15.21]A big waterbed that they bought with the bread [04:17.58]They had saved for a couple of years [04:19.58]But they started to fight when the money got tight [04:22.27]And they just didn't count on the tears [04:25.52] [04:55.29]Well they lived for a while in a very nice style [04:57.66]But it's always the same in the end [04:59.97]They got a divorce as a matter of course [05:02.04]And they parted the closest of friends [05:04.35]Then the king and the queen went back to the green [05:07.10]But you can never go back there again [05:13.47]Brenda and Eddie had had it already [05:15.22]By the summer of '75 [05:17.97]From the high to the low to the end of the show [05:21.54]For the rest of their lives [05:22.98]They couldn't go back to the greasers [05:24.98]The best they could do was pick up the pieces [05:27.79]But we always knew they would both find a way to get by [05:31.41]Oh that's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie [05:34.91]Can't tell you more cause I told you already [05:37.79]And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye [05:39.97] [06:27.03]A bottle of red and bottle of white [06:34.28]Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight [06:41.34]I'll meet you anytime you want [06:44.15]In our Italian Restaurant