Black Coffee

Lacy J. Dalton

Black Coffee, blue mornin'
Toast is burnin' and the rain keeps pourin'
Bad feeling I'm losing you
Black Coffee, green envy
Jealous of the way that you used to love me
Bad feeling I'm losing you

I don't know if I can live without you
I don't know if I can understand it
Don't know if I can, know if I can
If I could only think of one good reason
To make this crazy love affair worth leaving
Oh, you know that I would, you know that I would

Black Coffee, red warning
No good news in the news this morning
Bad feeling I'm losing you

I don't know if I can live without you
I don't know if I can understand it
Don't know if I can, know if I can
If I could only think of one good reason
To make this crazy love affair worth leaving
Oh, you know that I would, you know that I would

Black Coffee, blue mornin'
Toast is burnin' and the rain keeps pourin'
Bad feeling I'm losing you

I got this bad feeling I'm losing you

Black Coffee, blue blue feeling...


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Black Coffee Lyrics as written by Paul Francis Webster Francis Joseph Burke

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