JOEL BILLY - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant lyrics
rate meA bottle of white, a bottle of red<br>Perhaps a bottle of rose instead<br>We'll get a table near the street<br>In our old familiar place<br>You and I - face to face<br><br>A bottle of red, a bottle of white<br>It all depends on your appetite<br>I'll meet you any time you want<br>In our italian restaurant.<br><br>Things are okay with me these days<br>Got a good job, got a good office<br>Got a new wife, got a new life<br>And the family's fine<br>We lost touch long ago<br>You lost weight I did not know<br>You could ever look so good after so much time.<br><br>I remember those days hanging out at the village green<br>Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans<br>Drop a dime in the box play the song about new orleans<br>Cold beer, hot lights<br>My sweet romantic teenage nights<br><br>Brenda and eddie were the popular steadies<br>And the king and the queen of the prom<br>Riding around with the car top down and the radio on<br>Nobody looked any finer<br>Or was more of a hit at the parkway diner<br>We never knew we could want more than that out of life<br>Surely brenda and eddie would always know how to survive.<br><br>Brenda and eddy were still going steady in the summer of '75<br>When they decided the marriage would be at the end of july<br>Everyone said they were crazy<br>Brenda you know you're much too lazy<br>Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life.<br>But there we were wavin' brenda and eddie goodbye.<br><br>They got an apartment with deep pile carpet<br>And a couple of paintings from sears<br>A big waterbed that they bought with the bread<br>They had saved for a couple of years<br>They started to fight when the money got tight<br>And they just didn't count on the tears.<br><br>They lived for a while in a very nice style<br>But it's always the same in the end<br>They got a divorce as a matter of course<br>And they parted the closest of friends<br>Then the king and the queen went back to the green<br>But you can never go back there again.<br><br>Brenda and eddie had had it already by the summer of '75<br>From the high to the low to the end of the show<br>For the rest of their lives<br>They couldn't go back to the greasers<br>The best they could do was pick up the pieces<br>We always knew they would both find a way to get by<br>That's all I heard about brenda and eddie<br>Can't tell you more than I told you already<br>And here we are wavin' brenda and eddie goodbye.<br><br>A bottle of red, a bottle of white<br>Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight<br>I'll meet you anytime you want<br>In our italian restaurant.
