Coffee & Cigarettes - Victor Kwesi Mensah

Coffee and cigarettes

Remind me of you, babe

You pick me up in your old Buick station wagon

With the radio broke

I roll the window up

You turn the AC on

Who knew you’d be so cold?

Newports burnin' on our lips

A shootout in the background as I told you that I love you

A gunshot to the heart couldn’t have hit me as hard as you did

As hard as you did, no

Ash my cigarette

Waiting for your response

It burns slowly as a spirit

Who knew you’d be so cold?

You were only 17, falling in love with everything

Except for me, except for me, except for me

These cigarettes is burnin' like a dream

And all this money heals everything

Except for me, except for me, except for me

We wrote our names beneath the bridge

To be sure that the city never forgot us

Who woulda known you’d be so quick to forget about me

I guess that’s memory loss

I wish you loved me as much as weed

Shit, even half as much as weed

I know you love to smoke

Marlboro 27s were your favorite

Only thing you loved more was your little sister

I hope she never grows up to be as fucked up as you did

Fucked up as you did, oh

Light my cigarette like we did when we were young

Who knew we’d grow so old?

You were only 17, falling in love with everything

Except for me, except for me, except for me

These cigarettes is burnin' like a dream

And all this money heals everything

Except for me, except for me, except for me

I recently realized I’m a hopeless romantic

I ask a lot of questions, but I’m not open to answers

And all of my girlfriends just fall into the same old patterns

Like sudoku puzzles we cross words, spoken in anger

I must be the best at turning the good girl crazy, that’s like my strong suit

'Cause every time we should be breaking up I’m right there on cue

Like a pool stick with some bullshit 'bout what I’m going through

You should have an amber alert for me, I swear they should have warned you

I mean, young rap god, what do you expect from me?

And women are like a greatest hits album, they get the best of me

I give 'em my all and then forget to call the next morning

I used to play my tape in the passenger while she bend corners

She was only 17, first girl that broke my heart

Now I think I take it out on every girl I take out on

Dinner dates, to somewhere nice to sit like Rosa Parks

Guess that’s just the way it is, it all ends the way it starts

You were only 17, falling in love with everything

Except for me, except for me, except for me

These cigarettes is burnin' like a dream

And all this money heals everything

Except for me, except for me, except for me