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BAD COFFEE

by Spoken Nerd & Juan Cosby

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Bad Coffee is a song that documents that moment in which you realize that your bad situation is one that you put yourself into. This is the first single from Spoken Nerd & Juan Cosby's collaborative album, GRAPES. Several of these songs were written in parks, in the car or in hotel rooms during the last Spoken Nerd tour before Covid in 2019. Bad Coffee was inspired by a cup of hotel "coffee" in Blue Island, IL that made Spoken Nerd question all of the decisions that led up to that moment. This song is an anthem for those of us who sacrifice personal comfort to our hopes and aspirations. Musically, it’s like a synthwave MC 900 Ft. Jesus / They Might Be Giants mashup. My cup runneth over.

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In the morning I need something
I guess that this will do
You've got me shaking and I'm hungry
My eyes can't take this truth
I try to sleep, my bed feels like a park bench
I beg the question like I need to be pardoned
I said no but you gave me a bargain
Shel Silverstein life where does the bar end
I try to laceit but it ain't nothing basic
It'll take a gallon to make it
the buffer challenge is sacred
If I don't shake the arrangement
then I'll be down and out naked
You make me sound like I'm faded
as if I'm drowning and failing

I had a cup of bad coffee
I couldn't wash the sad off me
and I've got to come to terms because I did this to myself
and I've got to make amends with the handshake I was dealt

and I'm on my feet again
and I fall to quick to win
and I walk against the wind
and I talk like this is sin
and I'm on my feet again
and I fall to quick to win
and I walk against the wind
and I talk like this is sin

I'm shaking hands with a clone of me
what's a part timer going to pull a phone on me
All along, who's the doctor that sold you sleep
You care too much what the vultures think
You bare knuckle hitting up a code for keys
all apologies roasted like you're bold as beans
burnt up like a perm from the goldest weaves
or the coldest precinct for pho police
Sold the keepsake unload the dream
Hold the replay unfold the reams
oldest delay my ode to thee
Wrote in 3 legs my notary
Hold to the path simple mathematics antagonist
all gather around like the last supper was glamorous
showered in the vastness of hazmats and cactus'
calculated calibers can't stop the catalyst

I had a cup of bad coffee
I couldn't wash the sad off me
and I've got to come to terms because I did this to myself
and I've got to make amends with the handshake I was dealt

and I'm on my feet again
and I fall to quick to win
and I walk against the wind
and I talk like this is sin
and I'm on my feet again
and I fall to quick to win
and I walk against the wind
and I talk like this is sin

credits

released September 24, 2021
Bad Coffee
written by Nathan Conrad and Nick Mitchell
Cover art by Slick Venom

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