i m not one to fixate on passin news yet my gold reflection s in the evening brew loretta it s here that i met you our one connection our lousy fools their monograms on the handkerchiefs where we go side sweeping tears again our girlfriends send their condolences but where are the goons that got us into this and it s not that we can t handle it we re just tired of settlin you and me me and loretta loretta lynn black coffee and cinnamon the price of gin beats rememberin how did we not see this comin from him the first time i heard it i must have been five that crooked motives mean lots of lies but the warning didn t mean much til later in life when we were led to the land of ten cent wine they told us we were their heiresses a trick to conjure submissiveness so we d be lame but great in appearances lame not great they re no different and it s not that we cant handle it were just tired of settlin you and me  me and loretta loretta lynn black coffee and cinnamon the price of gin beats rememberin how did we not see this coming from him the back of tootsie s off of music row with our heads hangin like limp dolls in the bars among evening clothes where yesterday s hunger meets today s ghosts among the sinners and the cigarettes the kind of crowd you d expect him in but we re not angry at all the men no just the ones we got tangled with cause its not that we cant handle it we re just tired of settlin you and me me and loretta loretta lynn black coffee and cinnamon the price of gin beats rememberin how did we not see this comin from him how did we not see this comin how did we not see this comin how did we not see this comin 