Listen to Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, December, 1982) by Billy Joel

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, December, 1982)

Billy Joel

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Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY - December 1982)

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Billy Joel

Vocals

Liberty De Vitto

Liberty De Vitto

Drums

Doug Stegmeyer

Bass

David Brown

Electric Guitar

Russell Javors

Acoustic Guitar

Mark Rivera

Tenor Saxophone

D. Lebolt

Keyboards

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Billy Joel

Songwriter

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

A bottle of white, a bottle of red

Perhaps a bottle of rosé 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

[Verse 2]

Things are okay with me these days

Got a good job, I got a good office

Got a new wife, got a new life

And the family is fine

We lost touch long ago

You lost weight, I did not know

That you could ever look so nice after so much time

Do you remember those days hangin' out at the Village Green?

Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans

Oh, drop a dime in the box, play the song about New Orleans

Cold beer, hot lights

My sweet romantic teenage nights

[Verse 3]

Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies

And the king and queen of 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

[Verse 4]

Brenda and Eddie were still goin' steady in the summer of '75

Then they decided their marriage would be at the end of July

Everyone said they were crazy

Brenda, you know that you're much too lazy

And Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life

Oh, but there we were, wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye

Well, 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

[Verse 5]

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 they parted the closest of friends

Then the king and the queen went back to the Green

But you can never go back there again

[Verse 6]

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 their pieces

And we always knew we would both find a way to get by

Oh, and that's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie

Can't tell you more 'cause I told you already

And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye

[Verse 7]

A bottle of red, ooh, a bottle of white

Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight

I'll meet you anytime you want

In our Italian restaurant

Written by: Billy Joel