Coffee Bean Candy: The Chewable Molecule

Lyrics

[Intro]
A little jar on the counter.
Dark brown, slightly dusted.
A bean-sized confession.

[Verse 1]
Coffee bean candy is two alkaloids at once.
Theobromine in the chocolate shell,
caffeine in the bean inside.
Chew one and you have cocoa's gentle cousin
and coffee's pushy one arguing
in the same molecule of attention.

[Verse 2]
Nobody admits how many they've eaten.
The jar mysteriously loses a third of itself
between lunch and three.
"Just one more" is the chocolate-lover's lie
and the caffeine-craver's lie.
Both lies can live in the same hand.

[Chorus]
Coffee bean candy. The chewable molecule.
Theobromine and caffeine, hand in hand.
The mouth decides it's candy.
The bloodstream knows it's a drug.

[Bridge]
Aztecs drank unsweetened cacao
and called it the food of the gods.
We coated it in sugar, added the bean,
and hid it in a mason jar by the espresso machine.

[Outro]
A little jar. Dark brown. Slightly dusted.
The Alkaloid loft pretends not to notice
how many are gone today.