Jody Glenham – Coffee Soaked

This morning’s tune is a gorgeous piece of work from the indie-pop Winnipeg-native Jody Glenham.  Coffee Soaked can be found on Glenham’s sophomore album “Focus Pull”, released this past March; Glenham’s debut album was a 2006 effort entitled “Brave New World”.  The bouncy delivery of the verses, juxtaposed with the somber feeling conjured up by the grand piano, creates an appropriate “depressed but hopeful”  sort of atmosphere that really makes the song for me.  For more from Miss. Glenham, check out her MySpace here.

Working in a coffee shop
Listening to strangers talk
Oh how the world seems so trivial

Drowning all my self-esteem
In cinnamon spiced whipped cream
How the crowds get so radical

I see coffee soaked dreams
This is all that it seems
‘Cause I can’t find my way
Out of here
Giving in to what I fear
Time to be all that I can

Quick to quote the quid pro quo
My mistake, but no one knows
I’ve learned too many ways to demonstrate
Bring your books slam down your tea
Your foreign lands do not impress me
For I too have read Michener

I see coffee soaked dreams
This is all that it seems
‘Cause I can’t find my way
Out of here
Giving in to what I fear
Time to be all that I can

Related posts:

• Meatdraw – Old World
• Hannah Georgas – The Beat Stuff
• The Coward and the Pelican – Let’s Dress Up Again
• The Zolas – Marlaina Kamikaze
• John Southworth – I Get It Now

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