Coffee & Grief ft. JohnO Lyrics

Most people tend to avoid processing their grief

for the same reason they avoid drinking their coffee black

They know that it's bitter

They dislike the bitterness

And so in an attempt to distract themselves

They load it up with all types of sugar and cream

Even though they know three out of four of us are lactose intolerant

What most of y'all don't know, coffee's not a bean

Coffee is a fruit

It's the pit of a cherry

This fruit takes on the flavor of its soil

The thing is though:

It only lets the people that lean into the bitterness

Enjoy the sweetness that's on the back end.

So if you lean in and drink

What you'll find is there's subtle sweetnesses on the back end

That are only reserved for people that'll lean in

Grief is the same way

So many of us are in distraction experiments

Where we're trying to distract our senses from the bitterness of grief

With sex and accomplishments and compliments and all types of stuff

And in an attempt to mask the bitterness of grief

The only thing that we do is disqualify ourselves from the prerequisite

leaning into it that unlocks the sweetnesses on the back end

Coffee is bitter

Grief is bitter

But we don't have to stop there

Both of those can be bittersweet