Jack Stauber – Coffee lyrics

It sounds like it could be about anything you feel addicted to. It always kinda reminds me of my eating disorder as I often restrict to "make myself feel alive." Some other replies mentioned self harm or alcohol addiction and those could definitly be it too. In essence I think youd song is really about addiction.

true it can mean anything it's a jack stauber song. it can mean he is trying to stop drinking coffee or he's going through a emotional sickness. it is likely that he's addicted to coffee and the voices are his urge to drink it again that's also likely to be the case.

Going by the fact that Jack Stauber songs seem to be telling an over arching story, I’m going to say that both this song, and the song Choice go hand in hand. Coffee seems to tell the story of (granted, I have 2 meanings for this but just bare with me here) a man struggling with addiction, possibly drug addiction or alcohol (you do drink both alcohol and coffee) or maybe both but there becoming aware of it and are conflicted. Based on the lines, “do I need it?”, “can I beat it?” And “would I see it? If it swallowed me whole”. They seem to imply that this person is becoming more aware of there addiction and there trying to see whether or not they have gone to far, but there also arguing with themself, based on the lines “I can make you feel alive! I know, but do I need you to survive?” Meaning that they know the drugs/alcohol/etc. (take your pick), make him feel better but he doesn’t want to be dependent on them. (I also feel like this person is seeing hallucinations, just over all). Then, there’s the song choice which seems to take place after this one, and it explains that their addiction has gotten worse and they get pity for it, i.e the lines “I am injury, no you aren’t! You made the choice to be!” Which I assume means they stuck to the drugs/alcohol/etc. I also feel like choice and coffee are connected based on the fact that in choice the chorus says, “caffeinate!” And coffee makes people caffeinated, I also see a connection between the struggle with control which is very obvious in coffee and again mirrored in the chorus of choice, where it says, “love, pain, heart, control! Caffeinate!”. This seems to mean that there is someone struggling to get threw there day and then using alcohol/drugs/etc. as there escape. I also think this song could be referencing caffeine addiction and how it’s so normal in society but really shouldn’t be.

i would say the meaning is about haveing no self control or being addicted to something like drug use you dont have self control to say "nope fuck the drugs they kill me slowly" since stop useing drugs is very hard to do and your very addicted to drugs so i think the song is about drug use and having no self controll over it but thats my opinion