Elvis Costello - Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter Lyrics
She says, "What is it that I've done
That you want me to be punished?"
When she woke up one day to find
That he had started to vanish
Perhaps you should not be listenin' at all
Twitch the vigilant lace
Make a slow, sour face
Set the scandalized whispering
She's out on her own with the rest of her riches
As the kids paint him out of their refrigerator pictures
She picks up the bill, pays off the babysitter
'Cause everybody knows burnt sugar is so bitter
Before he turned strange
She thought they would be together
For more than a lifetime
Look at him now
My, how things have changed
He could tear the sweet heart out of any girl
On just a whim
And turn it from a candy to a caramel
And make her hate the silly way she used to feel
And say, "I know nothing about him"
Now what's left of the birthday cake
Is very beautifully frosted
An absent father picks up the phone
To find the number's unlisted
But while the kids are distracted
They don't notice she's nervous at all
But how long will it take
Not to make a mistake
When a gentleman comes to call?
She's out on her own with the rest of her riches
As the kids tear down the refrigerator pictures
They already know how a woman may advance
From a pretty picture hat to a supermarket trance
But if he's unkind, he might as well forget her
'Cause everybody knows burnt sugar is so bitter
Burnt sugar is so bitter
Burnt sugar
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- Elvis Costello - Impatience
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- Elvis Costello - Country Darkness
- Elvis Costello - There's A Story In Your Voice
- Elvis Costello - Either Side Of The Same Town
- Elvis Costello - When Did I Stop Dreaming?
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