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 oooh
A bottle of red  a bottle of white
It all depends on 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 is fine
Oh  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
Oh  you'd drop a dime in the box play a 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 at 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 ParkwayDiner
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive
Brenda and Eddie 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
And Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life
But there we were waving 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
But they started to fight when the money got tight
And they just didn't count on the tears
Well 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
But 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 cause I told you already
And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye
A bottle of red  and bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our Italian Restaurant