Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter Lyrics - Elvis Costello

She says what has her daddy done 

That you want him to be punished 

When she woke up one day to find 

That he was starting to vanish 

But _if you hope_ (? ) to hear voices 

You know you should not be listening 

Push the vigilant lips 

Make a slice of her face 

Said the scandalous whispering 

She's not on her own with the rest of her riches 

As the kids paint him out of their refrigerator bitches 

She picks up the bills and pays the babysitter 

'cause everybody knows burnt sugar is so bitter 

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And once there was a time 

Before you turned strange 

She thought they'd be together 

For more than a lifetime 

Look at them 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 silouette she used to feel 

And say "i know nothing about you." 

Now what's left of the birthday cake 

Smeared and beautifully frosted 

An absent father picks up the phone 

To find the number's unlisted 

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While the kids are distracted 

She'll 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 not 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 

'cause everybody knows burnt sugar is so bitter 

Burnt sugar is so bitter 

Burnt sugar 

Burnt sugar 

Burnt sugar