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Artist: Elkie Brooks
Canonical path: /elkie-brooks/black-coffee
Related lyric paths: 6
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Black Coffee
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Black Coffee
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I'm feeling mighty lonesome
Haven't slept a wink
I walk the floor and watch the door
And in between I drink
Black coffee
Love's a hand me down blue
I'll never know a Sunday
In this weekday room
I'm talking to the shadows
One o'clock 'till 'four
And Lord, how slow the moments go
When all I do is pour
Black coffee
Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hanging out on Monday
My Sunday dreams to dry
Now man is born to go a-lovin'
A woman's born to weep and fret
To stay at home and tend her oven
And drown her past regrets
In coffee and cigarettes
I'm moaning all the morning
And mourning all the night
And in between it's nicotine
And not much heart to fight
Black coffee
Feelin' low as the ground
It's driving me crazy this waiting for my baby
To maybe come around
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Elkie Brooks performs "Black Coffee", and this lyric page sits inside the Elkie Brooks catalog on LyroVerse.
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