A bottle of white, a bottle of red, perhaps a bottle of rose instead
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We'll get a table near the street in our old familiar place
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You and I, face to face, mmm hmm
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A bottle of red, a bottle of white, it all depends upon your appetite
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I'll meet you anytime you want in our Italian Restaurant.
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Things are okay with me these days
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I got a good job, I got a good office
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I got a new wife, I got a new life and the family's fine
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Oh we lost touch years ago; you lost weight I did not know
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You could ever look so nice after so much time.
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Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green?
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Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
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Oh you drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans
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Cold beer, hot lights, my sweet romantic teenage nights, yeah
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
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Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
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And the king and the queen of the prom
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Riding around with the car top down and the radio on.
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Nobody looked any finer
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Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
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We never knew we could want more than that out of life
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Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive.
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
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Brenda and Eddy were still going steady in the summer of '75
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When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
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Ah, everyone said they were crazy
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"Brenda you know you're much too lazy
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Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life."
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Oh, but there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
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They got an apartment with deep pile carpet
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And a couple of paintings from Sears
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A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
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They had saved for a couple of years
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They started to fight when the money got tight
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And they just didn't count on the tears.
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Whoa ho, whoa ho
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Rock yourself and roll! Yeah hey!
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
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Well they lived for a while in a very nice style
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But it's always the same in the end
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They got a divorce as a matter of course
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And they parted the closest of friends
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The king and the queen went back to the green
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But you never go back there again
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No oh, no oh
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Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of '75
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From the high to the low
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To the end of the show for the rest of their lives
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They couldn't go back to the greasers
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The best they could do was pick up the pieces
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We always knew they would both find a way to get by
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Oh and that's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
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Can't tell you more ‘cause I told you already
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And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh
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Yeah, yeah!
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A bottle of red, ahh a bottle of white
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Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
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I'll meet you anytime you want in our Italian Restaurant
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Yeah yeah yeah yeah...
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Oh yeah yeah...
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(Thank you.)
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Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (live 1977)
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| Billy Joel |
