Instant Coffee Blues-Guy Clark

[ti:Instant Coffee Blues] [ar:Guy Clark] [al:Old No. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Instant Coffee Blues - Guy Clark [00:14.54]Now he washed all the road dirt [00:16.94]From his face and from his neck [00:19.81] [00:21.08]Sat down at her table [00:23.22] [00:23.99]And she picked up his check [00:26.44] [00:27.30]And she took him home for reasons [00:30.32]That she did not understand [00:33.43] [00:34.40]And him he had the answers [00:36.95]But he did not show his hand [00:39.70] [00:40.90]Cause him may knew the taste [00:43.26] [00:43.81]Of this wine very well [00:46.51] [00:47.54]It all goes down so easily [00:50.69]But the next day is hell [00:53.86] [01:06.04]Morning man was I drunk [01:08.85] [01:09.73]She whispered in the shower [01:12.64]While he lay there and smoked [01:15.69]His way there through the final hour [01:19.04] [01:20.28]She felt wholly empty [01:22.18] [01:22.75]Like she'd felt it every time [01:26.00] [01:26.52]And he was feeling just the same [01:29.34]Accept he was trying to make it rhyme [01:32.37] [01:33.54]Time was of the essence so they both did their best [01:39.06] [01:40.12]To meet up in the kitchen feeling fully dressed [01:46.30] [01:47.11]She just had to go to work [01:49.75] [01:50.46]And he just had to go [01:52.61] [01:54.00]And she knew where and he knew how [01:57.31]To blow it off and so [01:59.60] [02:00.53]They shot the breeze quite cavalier [02:03.85]To the boiling of the pot [02:06.41] [02:07.30]And sang the Instant Coffee Blues [02:11.09]And never fired a shot [02:13.03] [02:14.34]And him he hit the driveway with his feelings in a case [02:20.06] [02:21.26]And her she hit the stop light and touched up her face [02:27.09] [02:27.98]So you tell them the difference between caring and not [02:33.50] [02:34.28]And that it's all done with mirrors lest they forgot [02:40.43] [02:41.12]I said it's all done with mirrors of which they have none [02:47.44] [02:48.33]To blend the instant coffee blues into the morning sun