I feel a road trip coming on... I love that song...Vienna waits for me...
I love all of Billy Joel's songs. Especially
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
From "The Stranger" CD
A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of Rose instead
We'll get a table near the street
in our old familiar place
You and I -- Face to face
A bottle of red, a bottle of white,
It all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
in our Italian restaurant
(tempo change)
Things are okay with me these days,
got a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life and the family's fine
We lost touch long ago
you lost weight, I did not know
you could ever look so good after so much time
I remember those days hanging out at the village green
Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
Drop a dime in the box, play the song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights, our sweet romantic teenage nights.
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
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
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive
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 you're much too lazy and Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life."
But there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
They got an apartment with deep pile carpets 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, they just didn't count on the tears.
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 the parted the closest of friends.
Then the king and the queen went back to the green, but you can never go back there again.
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.
They couldn't go back to the greasers, the best they could do was pick up the pieces.
We always knew they would both find a way to get buy
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie, I can't tell you more than I told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
(tempo change)
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight.
I'll meet you anytime you want,
In our Italian restaurant. |
