Elvis Costello - 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

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

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

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