Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter

Elvis Costello, Carole King

[Verse 1]
She says, "What is it that I've done?
Did you want me to be punished?"
When she woke up one day to find
That he had started to vanish

[Pre-Chorus 1]
But if you overhear voices
Perhaps you should not be listenin' at all
Twitch the vigilant lips
Make a slow, sour face
Said the scandalous whispering

[Chorus 1]
She's out on her own with the rest of her riches
As the kids paint 'em out of the refrigerator pictures
She picks up the bills, pays off the babysitter
'Cause everybody knows burnt sugar is so bitter

[Bridge]
Once there was a time
Before you turned strange
She thought they would be together
For more than a lifetime
Look at 'em now
My, how things have changed
He can tell his sweetheart
Out of any girl on just a whiff
And turn it from a candy to a caramel
And make her hate the silhouette she used to feel
And say, "I know nothing about him"

[Verse 2]
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

[Pre-Chorus 2]
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?

[Chorus 2]
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
And if it's unkind, you might as well forget it
Because everybody knows burnt sugar is so bitter

[Outro]
Burnt sugar is so bitter
Burnt sugar

Curiosidades sobre la música Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter del Elvis Costello & the Imposters

¿Cuándo fue lanzada la canción “Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter” por Elvis Costello & the Imposters?
La canción Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter fue lanzada en 2018, en el álbum “Look Now”.
¿Quién compuso la canción “Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter” de Elvis Costello & the Imposters?
La canción “Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter” de Elvis Costello & the Imposters fue compuesta por Elvis Costello, Carole King.

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