(Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister

Hey, medonkey: you're dead on.

It's not that I knew before I read your post and just happen to agree, but what you read is clearly right.

About the common comments: I agree that many songs are about drugs (and I disagree with the people who claim that so many of the songs are actually blaming misery on drugs and generally making dope look shabby like some kind of public service announcement).

HOWEVER, not every song is about drugs!

How much more clearly could it be?!?!? "I'm in love with the candy floss girl"!!!!

Let's go step by step: 1)Her hair Soft drifted snow Death white I'd like to know Why she hates All that she does But she gives it all that she's got

Until the sky turns green The grass is several shades of blue Every member of parliament trips on glue

Until the sky turns green And the grass is several shades of blue Every member of parliament trips on glue

It takes all these things and all that time Till my sugar spun sister's happy With this love of mine It'll take all these things and oh much more

----OK, so he's got a girl who happens to be depressed and she just doesn't appreciate anything she does. Still, she does excellent things, and pours herself into what she does, e.g. loving him. She just doesn't realize how great she is and how great the things she does is. She also, however, apparently doesn't recognize his love, or feel satisfied with it.

We can all imagine this type of character: intense, and depressed, and as part of the depression, this person doesn't realize how well and intensely they do things, for example love. (This, of course, tends to sabotage and cast a shadow on the well-ness of their deeds and their love.) This depressed character also doesn't appreciate the singer's love -- so he waits till she's happy with his love -- it'll take all these things and so much more. What kinds of things? Things like the sky turning green, the grass turning blue, and parliament getting high (or slipping? on glue -- all impossible, or improbable things. The point is, he doesn't think he'll ever please her, and he expresses this by saying that she'll be happy when he manages to accomplish impossible feats. (Or maybe it's not about him accomplishing them, it's more like "she'll be happy when pigs fly out of my ass", but it's not that it's his job to get the pigs up in his ass and train them to fly? Savvy? This point doesn't matter anyways. )

The point of this first section: She'll never be happy with his love, and the lover knows this.

2)I've paid For fifteen or more But my guts Can't take many more My hands are stuck To my jeans And she knows she knows What this must mean

--OK, this is just mundane: he's bought a bunch of the candy floss (I guess this is what we call "cotton candy" in the US [the Roses are Brits]) and he's getting a stomach ache and doesn't think he'll eat anymore. (I'm not sure why he's bought so much at one time... but maybe it's just to impress her, or he's fumbled and bought the wrong amount because he's focused on her, or nervous, or love struck (i.e. dumb struck, and literally dumb).

And his fingers are stuck to his jeans, and she knows what this means: it means he's been eating so damn much candy his fingers are sticky -- and he's still there in front of her at the "candy floss" (i.e. cotton candy) booth. What does she know that means? She knows that means he's enamored with her: he's sitting around eating what she's selling, just so he can be near her.

3)She wakes up with the sun She asked me what is all the fuss As she gave me more than she thought she should She wakes up with the sun I think what have I done As I gave her more than I thought I would, ohhh

At takes all these things and all that time Till my sugar spun sister's happy With this love of mine

Yeah yeah yeah That candy floss girl The sticky fingered boy Oh that sister of mine Yeah

---In part 3, it's apparent he's bedded her: he's with her when she wakes up early.

And he just knows it takes a lot to gain and keep her love -- eating sh*t loads of candy, etc.

Makes sense, no? At first, I thought sugar was meant to evoke some other white powder, and "spun" was indicative of that powder being a stimulant, which would fit with the dance-y Madchester thing the Roses had going -- but clearly this is a simple love song about a girl who sells candy at a fair.

A good old love song about falling in love with the girl on the job, selling something sweet. And it's not about sugar walls or the kind of candy a prostitute sells -- it's about a real girl selling cotton candy and a man pursuing her!

Who's with me and medonkey?