Coffee Break lyrics

[COFFEE MAN, spoken]
Coffee break!

[BUD, spoken]
There's no coffee

[SMITTY, spoken]
No coffee?

[BUD, spoken]
No coffee

[SMITTY, spoken]
No coffee!

[BUD]
If I can't take my coffee break
My coffee break, my coffee break
If I can't take my coffee break
Something within me dies

[ENSEMBLE]
Lies down and something within me dies

[SMITTY]
If I can't make three daily trips
Where shining shrine benignly drips
And taste cardboard between my lips
Something within me dies
[ENSEMBLE]
Lies down and something within me dies

[MAN]
No coffee

[ENSEMBLE]
No coffee
No coffee
No coffee
No coffee
No coffee
No coffee!

[WOMAN]
No coffee!

[SMITTY]
That office light doesn't have to be fluorescent
I'll get no pains in the head
That office chair doesn't have to be foam rubber
So if I spread, so I spread
But only one chemical substance gets out the lead

[ENSEMBLE]
Like she said
If I can't take my coffee break
My coffee break!
My coffee break
If I can't take my coffee break
[SMITTY]
Gone is the sense of enterprise

[ENSEMBLE]
All gone and something within me dies

No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
Ah!

If I can't take my coffee break
My coffee break, my coffee break
If I can't take my coffee break

[SMITTY]
Somehow the soul no longer tries

[ENSEMBLE]
Coffee, coffee

[BUD]
Somewhere I don't metabolize
[ENSEMBLE]
Coffee, coffee

[SMITTY & BUD]
Something within me

[ENSEMBLE]
Coffee or otherwise
Coffee or otherwise
Coffee or otherwise
Something inside of me dies!