[Verse 1]
Coffee and cigarettes
Remind me of you, babe
You pick me up in your old Buick station wagon
With the radio broke
I roll the window up
You turn the AC on
Who knew you’d be so cold?
Newports burning on our lips
A shootout in the background as I told you that I love you
A gunshot to the heart couldn’t have hit me as hard as you did
As hard as you did, no
Ash my cigarette
Waiting for your response
It burns slowly as a spirit
Who knew you’d be so cold?
[Hook/Chorus]
You were only 17, falling in love with everything
Except for me, except for me, except for me
These cigarettes is burning like a dream
And all this money heals everything
Except for me, except for me, except for me
[Verse 2]
We wrote our names beneath the bridge
To be sure that the city never forgot us
Who woulda known you’d be so quick to forget about me
I guess that’s memory loss
I wish you loved me as much as weed
S**t, even half as much as weed
I know you love to smoke
Marlboro 27s were your favorite
Only thing you loved more was your little sister
I hope she never grows up to be as f****d up as you did
F****d up as you did, oh
Light my cigarette like we did when we were young
Who knew we’d grow so old?
[Hook/Chorus]
You were only 17, falling in love with everything
Except for me, except for me, except for me
These cigarettes is burning like a dream
And all this money heals everything
Except for me, except for me, except for me
[Verse 3]
I recently realized I’m a hopeless romantic
I ask a lot of questions, but I’m not open to answers
And all of my girlfriends just fall into the same old patterns
Like sudoku puzzles we cross words, spoken in anger
I must be the best at turning the good girl crazy, that’s like my strong suit
‘Cause every time we should be breaking up I’m right there on cue
Like a pool stick with some b******t ’bout what I’m going through
You should have an amber alert for me, I swear they should have warned you
I mean, young rap god, what do you expect from me?
And women are like a greatest hits album, they get the best of me
I give ’em my all and then forget to call the next morning
I used to play my tape in the pa**enger while she bend corners
She was only 17, first girl that broke my heart
Now I think I take it out on every girl I take out on
Dinner dates, to somewhere nice to sit like Rosa Parks
Guess that’s just the way it is, it all ends the way it starts
[Hook/Chorus]
You were only 17, falling in love with everything
Except for me, except for me, except for me
These cigarettes is burning like a dream
And all this money heals everything
Except for me, except for me, except for me