Best Song Lyrics (Part IV)

So far in this blog, I've covered songs from The Eagles, Dave Matthews Band, and John Mellencamp. There are lots of great songs and songwriters to go, and this IVth installment brings me to the classic singer/songwriter Billy Joel.

Here again, Joel has many good lyrics from which to choose, typically from uses a variety of relationship topics. I'm going with the following classic narrative from Scenes From An Italian Restaurant. Getting married too young still ends up like this:

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 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
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
But 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.