In mid-sized-town coffehouse culture, there are always your regulars. And then in every mid-sized-town, coffeehouses went from Venti to Tall, to nothing at all...
Fifth Street Coffee Song
Music and Lyrics by Julean Rai (BMI)
All Rights Reserved.
Verse:
Same.
Feels like a year has
Come and gone...
A shame;
eleven months now
On my own.
In the shop behind me
Music plays
Marcos plays the spoons
Scott and I play the plates
And the pipers mom
Says 'Let the music breathe'
Like this...
And we spill
Out on the streets now
Like a cloth.
Until
We're rubbing elbows
With the Law.
Because the shop next door just
Called the cops on the
'Damned guitar, and the
Kids and the Goths'
When I just made five bucks
From the guy with a girl on his arm.
Chorus:
Well, in the morning we come
And we light up our smokes
Of course that's noonish for some
And a whole lot of folks we know are
Tucked into tables
Crumpled at the bar, man
Some loathe you, some love you
But all know just
Who you are.
You're at the Fifth Street Coffee Shop.
J...
Yeah, we don't talk
Much anymore.
And that's okay.
He was never much for
My rock-and-roll.
And Virginia's caught on the
Streets, like a refugee, I can
Take her home, she can
Crash with me, and I mean
Just what I say, I said it
Just like I mean, man.
Chorus:
Well, in the morning we come
And we light up our smokes
Of course that's noonish for some
And a whole lot of folks we know are
Tucked into tables
Crumpled at the bar, man
Some loathe you, some love you
But all know just
Who you are.
You're like a Fifth Street Coffee Star.
Bridge:
I got a brand-new pen
And a fresh stack of paper, and a
Bottomless cup, and a
While more to linger, while I
Hear that this place may not have
Long to be here,
Because of the kids, and the cops
And the folk like me
Who 'live here', O...
Down at the Fifth Street Coffee Co.
Chorus:
Well, in the morning we come
And we light up our smokes
Of course that's noonish for some
And a whole lot of folks we know are
Tucked into tables, and
Crumpled at the bar, man
Some loathe you, some love you
But all know just
Who you are.
Down at the Fifth Street COffee Shop.
Down at the Coffee Shop...
...at the Fifth Street Coffee Shop...
Down at the Coffee Shop...
...at the Fifth Street Coffee Shop...
Down at the Coffee Shop...
...at the Fifth Street Coffee Shop...
Down at the Coffee Shop...
...at the Fifth Street Coffee Shop...
Way down at the Coffee Shop...
...at the Fifth Street Coffee Shop...
Down at the Coffee Shop.
Hey!
Copyright 1996 Julian D. Rai (BMI); Julean Rai (BMI); Julean and the Rai (BMI), All Rights Reserved. ISRC# US-J3V-07-34271
credits
from Muse Tree (E.U. Pre-Release Version),
track released October 15, 2007
Engineering and performances by Julean Rai. Album art by Benjamin M. Bader (neoelegance.com). Lyrics and music (c) Copyright 1996, 2007 Julian Rai (BMI); Julean Rai (BMI); Julean and the Rai (BMI); All rights reserved.
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