Instant Coffee Blues-Guy Clark

[ti:Instant Coffe Blues] [ar:Guy Clark] [al:The Essential Guy Clark] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Instant Coffee Blues - Guy Clark [00:14.61]He washed all the road dirt from his face and from his neck [00:19.79] [00:21.17]And sat down at her table and she picked up his check [00:26.34] [00:27.53]And she took him home for reasons that she did not understand [00:33.27] [00:34.27]And him he had the answers but did not play his hand [00:39.51] [00:40.82]For him he knew the taste of this wine very well [00:46.25] [00:47.81]It all goes down so easily but the next day is hell [00:53.62] [01:05.85]Morning - "Man was I drunk " she wispered in the shower [01:12.71]While he lay there and smoked his way there through the final hour [01:18.89] [01:20.08]And she felt wholly empty like she'd felt it every time [01:25.69] [01:26.50]And he was feelin' just the same 'cept he was tryin' to make it rhyme [01:31.99] [01:33.68]Time was of the essence so they both did their best [01:38.80] [01:40.17]To meet up in the kitchen feelin fully dressed [01:46.03] [01:47.28]She just had to go to work and he just had to go [01:52.25] [01:53.88]And she knew where and he knew how to blow it off and so [01:59.12] [02:00.49]They shot the breeze quite cavalier to the boilin' of the pot [02:06.02] [02:07.45]And sang the Instant Coffee Blues and never fired a shot [02:12.88] [02:14.44]And him he hit the driveway with his feelin's in a case [02:19.68] [02:20.99]And her she hit the stoplight and touched up her face [02:26.64] [02:27.82]So you tell them the difference between caring and not [02:33.25] [02:34.31]And that it's all done with mirrors lest they forgot [02:39.99] [02:41.05]I said it's all done with mirrors of which they have none [02:47.11] [02:48.17]To blend the instant coffee blues into the morning sun