[Verse 1]
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
Lies down and something within me dies

[Verse 2]
If I can't make three daily trips
Where shining shrine benignly drips
And taste cardboard between my lips
Oh, something within me dies
Lies down and something within me dies

[Bridge]
Like man, I'm hooked, like a mackerel
Like man, all right, call me wrong
But cut me no cream and sugar
Give me my fix, black and strong
Or like I crash out of my orbit
Before too long

[Verse 3]
My mind goes numb, I'm half awake
My typing's dumb, my filing's fake
If I can't take my coffee break
Gone is my sense of enterprise
Coffee or something within me dies