Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves & Willie Nelson
The twelfth song on Pageant Material, “Cup of Tea” is a song written about the fact that not everybody is going to like you, and that’s just something you have to get used to.
In a video from Musgraves’s YouTube channel, writer and producer Shane McAnally tells that Musgraves first said the line “y...
[Verse 1]
Maybe your jacket is a hand-me down
Maybe you slept with half of your hometown
In a world of squares maybe you're just round
[Chorus 1]
You can't be everybody's cup of tea
Some like the bitter, some the sweet
Nobody's everybody's favorite, so you might as well just make it how you please
'Cause you can't be everybody's cup of tea
[Verse 2]
Maybe you're working at a hotel bar
Maybe you're still driving your high school car
Maybe you still don't know just who you are
[Chorus 1]
You can't be everybody's cup of tea
Some like the bitter, some the sweet
Nobody's everybody's favorite, so you might as well just make it how you please
[Bridge]
Oh, maybe you married the wrong person first
Maybe your hair's way too long
Your sister's in jail
Or maybe you failed out of college
But, hey, life goes on
And we've all got the right to be wrong
[Chorus 2]
'Cause you can't be everybody's cup of tea
Some like it black, some like it green
Nobody's everybody's favorite
So you might as well just make it how you please
'Cause you can't be everybody's cup of tea
Why would you wanna be?
Cup of Tea was written by Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne & Shane McAnally.
Cup of Tea was produced by Shane McAnally & Kacey Musgraves & Luke Laird.
Kacey Musgraves released Cup of Tea on Tue Jun 23 2015.
In a video from her YouTube channel, Musgraves says that “Cup Of Tea” is a “little, tiny music box of a song.”