Sugar Won't Work Lyrics - Wise Up Ghost - Elvis Costello & The Roots

Lightning up! 

And shake the ground 

Is that a horn that's blowing? 

Or a bell that's tolling? 

Walls are falling 

Ships pulled out from their mooring 

Is that a river or just a road the storm has stolen? 

And this will predict the times these signs will bring 

Me and my stupid heart 

We were never apart 

But now sugar won't work 

Lightning up! 

And fly the coop 

Far from this tin-pan alley oop 

Did you think I was your dupe? 

I hear such lies and howlers 

Words to pull out your molars 

And this will predict the times these signs will bring 

Me and my stupid heart 

We were never apart 

But now sugar won't work, sugar won't work 

Lightning up! 

Sugar the pill 

A wall of ocean ten miles high 

Metal darts torn from the sky 

Like wanton boys make noise pull wings from flies 

And this will predict the times these signs will bring 

Me and my stupid heart 

We were never apart 

But now sugar won't work, (sugar won't work) [x5]