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Billy Joel “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” Live from Long Island
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Lyrics:

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
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 nice after
So much time
Do you 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
My sweet romantic teenage nights
Brenda and Eddie were the
Popular steadys
And the king and the 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
Brenda and Eddy 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
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 carpet
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
And 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 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
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 by
That’s all I heard about
Brenda and Eddie
Can’t tell you more than I
Told you already
And here we are wavin’ Brenda
And Eddie goodbye
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

42 Comments

  2. Daniel Volonino

    This was such a great concert. 1982 Nassau Coliseum. And since it was being taped live, they played their ass's off

  8. jsimon414

    The north jersey, nyc, long island billy joel fanbase is unmatched. There’s no one else with such a centralized fanbase who has remained so popular for decades. Local treasure

  13. William Weaver

    Jonathan Kleck is the angel of the churchof Philadelphia with the key of David love a gift given to the church the bride i

  23. 66crash66

    From Alberta and took my son to see Billy at Citizens Bank Park in Philly in 2016 and this is his favourite song. You're the best Billy and thanks for the great concert!!

  26. Eddie Money

    I like how billy joel always wore dress clothes to perform. An everyman doing his job from his office and damn good at it.

  28. Big Bus Dream

    He had the best drummer in the business. I believe this was his hometown concert at CW Post when The Stranger came out. I was at this show. A few months later the roof caved in during a snowstorm. I read recently the Joel feels this was his best tune.

  29. dadduorp

    In my opinion, when Billy opted to dump his backup band, he lost the essence to his sound.

  30. Al Crego

    Joel was at the top of songwriting when he wrote this wonderful storytelling piece. In the 70s and 80s, I just could not stop listening all the way through the albums 'The Stranger' and ''52nd Street' over and over and over and OVER again, and this song put a small-town Missouri kid IN a New York, hole-in-the-wall, Italian restaurant with checkered red-and-white tablecloth and its melted wax candles … and among rising and falling conversations and stories at each table.

  31. Rush More

    Billy J lost a lot of his mojo, when he let this band go and then his amazing drummer kind of zapped it completely. Still, amazing artist and great albums in the 70s and 80s.

  36. le th

    Man, that sax…adds so much to an already lively arrangement. Bookmarked this one.

  40. swb31763

    "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant"

    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

    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 nice after

    So much time

    Do you 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

    My sweet romantic teenage nights

    Brenda and Eddie were the

    Popular steadies

    And the king and the 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

    Brenda and Eddy 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

    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 carpet

    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

    And 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 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

    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 by

    That's all I heard about

    Brenda and Eddie

    Can't tell you more than I

    Told you already

    And here we are wavin' Brenda

    And Eddie goodbye

    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

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