Black Coffee
Tricky & Martina Topley-Bird * Track #7 On Nearly God
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Album Nearly God
- #1Tattoo
Tricky
- #2Poems
Tricky & Terry Hall & Martina Topley-Bird
- #3Together Now
Tricky & Neneh Cherry
- #4Keep Your Mouth Shut
Tricky & Björk
- #5I Be The Prophet
Tricky & Martina Topley-Bird
- #6Make A Change
Tricky & Alison Moyet
- #7Black Coffee
Tricky & Martina Topley-Bird
- #8Bubbles
Tricky & Terry Hall
- #9I Sing For You
Tricky & Dedi Madden & Cath Coffey
- #10Yoga
Tricky & Björk
- #11Judas
Tricky & Martina Topley-Bird
- #12Children’s Story
Tricky & Martina Topley-Bird
Black Coffee by Tricky (Ft. Martina Topley-Bird)
Performed by
TrickyMartina Topley-BirdAbout
This is a cover of a famous jazz standard, first published in 1948 and written by composer Sonny Burke and lyricist Paul Francis Webster.
It samples Elvis Costello’s Pills and Soap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZGfBWPRXaI
Black Coffee Lyrics
[Tricky:]
(One, one, two, one, one, two
Move over, move over, yeah, you heard what I said, move over)
[Martina Topley-Bird:]
I feel so lonely; haven’t slept a wink
I walk the floor and watch the door and in between I drink
Black coffee
Love's a Hand-me-down brew
I never know why Sunday in this weekday brew
I'm talking to the shadows, 1 o'clock till 4
And Lord, how slow the moments go... All I do is pour
Black coffee
Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hanging out on Monday but Sunday dreams too dry
They say a man is born to go alone
And a woman is born to weep and fret to stay at home
And drown her past regrets in coffee and cigarettes
And moody all the morning, moody all night
And in between I drink
Black coffee