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

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, mm

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

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

Ooh, ooh, ooh

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

And 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, oh yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh

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 outta life

Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive

Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh

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

When they decided the marriage'd 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 kinda life

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

Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh

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, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh

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, oh, oh

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

We always knew they would both find a way to get by

Oh, 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

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

A bottle of red, oh, a bottle of white

Whatever kinda mood you're in tonight

I'll meet you anytime you want

In our Italian restaurant

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa

Ooh, ooh, ooh