How to Succeed in Business - Coffee Break Lyrics

2011 Broadway revival
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying the Musical - Coffee Break Lyrics


The song is written by Frank Loesser.

FRUMP
There's no coffee!

COMPANY
No coffee?! Ohhhhhh!

FRUMP
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.

SMITTY
If I can't make
Three daily trips
Where shining shrine
Benignly drips,
And taste cardboard
Between my lips.
Something within me dies.

COMPANY
Dies down and something within me dies.

No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!

SMITTY
That office's light
Doesn't have to be florescent.
I'll get no pains
In my 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.

COMPANY
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 & FRUMP
Gone is the sense of enterprise.

COMPANY
All gone and something within me dies.

No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!
No coffee!

COMPANY
If I can't take
My coffee break.

SMITTY
Somehow the soul no longer tries.

COMPANY
Coffee, coffee...

FRUMP
Somewhere I don't metabolize.

COMPANY
Coffee, coffee...

SMITTY & FRUMP
Something within me ...

COMPANY
Coffee, or otherwise...
Coffee, or otherwise...
Coffee, or otherwise...

Something inside of me...
Dies!


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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

SYNOPSIS
How To Succeed
Happy To Keep His Dinner Warm
Coffee Break
Company Way
Company Way (Reprise)
A Secretary Is Not A Toy
Been A Long Day
Been A Long Day (Reprise)
Grand Old Ivy
Paris Original
Rosemary
Finale Act One
Cinderella, Darling
Love From A Heart of Gold
I Believe In You
I Believe In You (Reprise)
Brotherhood of Man
Finale