Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter

Lyrics

She says what has her daddy done

That you want him to be punished

When she woke up one day to find

He was starting to vanish

But if you overhear voices

You know you should not be listening

Twitch the vigilant lace

Make a slice of her face

Said the scandalous 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 bills, pays off the babysitter

'Cos everybody knows burnt sugar is so bitter

And once there was a time

Before you turned strange

She thought they would be together

For more than a lifetime

Look at him now

My, how things have changed

He can tell his sweetheart 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

It's very beautifully frosted

An absent father picks up the phone

To find the number's unlisted

While the kids are distracted

They don't notice he'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 their refrigerator pictures

They already know how a woman may advance

From a pretty picture hat to a supermarket trance

Where it is unkind, she might as well forget it

'Cos everybody knows burnt sugar is so bitter

Burnt sugar is so bitter

Burnt sugar

Burnt sugar

Burnt sugar

Credits

• Written by: Elvis Costello and Carole King

Performances

Elvis performed this song several times in 1999 and twice in 2004, but it has not yet been officially released.

Covers

• none

Bootlegs

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