Scenes From an Italian Restaurant

[00:14.31] A bottle of white, a bottle of red
[00:20.62] Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead
[00:28.30] We'll get a table near the street, in our old familiar place
[00:34.76] You and I, face to face, mhm

[00:40.94] A bottle of red, a bottle of white
[00:48.76] It all depends upon your appetite
[00:55.61] I'll meet you any time you want
[00:58.71] In our Italian restaurant

[01:44.33] Things are okay with me these days
[01:46.54] I got a good job, I got a good office
[01:48.97] I got a new wife, got a new life and the family is fine
[01:53.65] Oh, we lost touch long ago
[01:56.65] You lost weight, I did not know
[01:59.12] You could ever look so nice after so much time

[02:03.92] Do you remember those days hanging out at the Village Green?
[02:09.13] Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
[02:14.25] Oh, you'd drop a dime in the box play a song about New Orleans
[02:19.44] Cold beer, hot lights, my sweet romantic teenage nights
[02:26.07] Ooh, ooh
[02:32.75] Yeah, yeah, ooh

[03:03.37] Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[03:08.17] Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[03:12.36] Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
[03:14.65] And the king and the queen at the prom
[03:17.14] Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
[03:21.88] Nobody looked any finer or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
[03:26.81] We never knew we could want more than that out of life
[03:30.90] Surely, Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive

[03:34.71] Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[03:39.06] Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[03:43.86] Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75
[03:48.69] When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
[03:53.49] Everyone said they were crazy
[03:55.95] "Brenda, you know that you're much too lazy
[03:58.45] And Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life"
[04:03.09] Oh, but there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye

[04:06.35] Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, oh

[04:10.29] Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpets
[04:12.67] And a couple of paintings from Sears
[04:15.23] A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
[04:17.31] They had saved for a couple of years
[04:19.77] But they started to fight when the money got tight
[04:22.78] And they just didn't count on the tears, oh, oh

[04:27.60] Yeah, and rock and roll

[04:50.45] Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[04:54.83] Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style
[04:57.36] But it's always the same in the end
[04:59.95] They got a divorce as a matter of course
[05:02.10] And they parted the closest of friends
[05:04.46] Then the king and the queen went back to the green
[05:06.77] But you can never go back there again, no, oh

[05:13.26] Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of '75
[05:17.61] From the high to the low to the end of the show
[05:19.95] For the rest of their lives
[05:22.79] They couldn't go back to the greasers
[05:25.35] The best they could do was pick up their pieces
[05:27.79] But we always knew they would both find a way to get by

[05:32.43] Oh, and that's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
[05:35.15] Can't tell you more 'cause I told you already
[05:37.39] And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye

[05:40.55] Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[05:45.35] Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
[05:50.31] Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[06:26.06] A bottle of red, ooh, a bottle of white
[06:33.83] Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
[06:41.03] I'll meet you anytime you want
[06:43.98] In our Italian restaurant
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