Raw Sugar

for me it's about being in a rut. you've outgrown the surroundings you're in. you don't want the dreams everyone around you settles for. you feel trapped in a life that isn't your choosing. now you feel like it's futile to struggle against it, because "summer never comes" in a place like that. it's all the same dull drab monotony...and you have no idea how to get out of it.

best metric song to me, hands down.

I think this songs about monotony, about being stuck in a rut as someone else said (same black day).

The time in your life when things arent bad, but not that great either (summer never comes, but neither does winter).

It ties in to poverty too (high rise grave). Why Raw sugar? Its the cheapest form of sweetness, and sometimes thats the best some people can hope for (Ferment on the wishbone).

On the words "Raw Sugar" - In the song "On the Sly" in this same album, Haines sings about selling out and how she tries to resist the urge of selling out. During the song, she sings, "The dirty sugar factory on the water/Should smell sweet." As "On the Sly" is about selling out and how mass-produced, formulaic music is trash, I interpret the dirty music factory to be the equivalent of the popular music industry/popular labels. Go look up the interpretations of "On the Sly" for more details.

Seeing as this song mentions the words "On the sly," I figured that the mention of raw sugar has to do with that song. Raw sugar is unprocessed sugar - as in, unprocessed by a "dirty sugar factory." Haines wanted to be raw sugar - untainted by the effects and pressures of popularity and music labels. Remember that when this song was written, Haines hadn't even been signed by a label. This interpretation sort of ties into the rest of the chorus.

Finally, look at where this song pops up on the album.

On the Sly - on selling out in the music industry Soft Rock Star - on not using sex appeal to sell your music Raw Sugar - ?? if my interpretation is correct, it follows the trend of songs about the music industry, labels, etc White Gold - on fame, recognition

there is also somewhat of a mini-trend about cocaine. Raw Sugar and White Gold are both slang terms for cocaine.

Anyway, this song isn't nearly as satisfactorily decoded as the others on this album. Help, anyone?

These lyrics are wrong. Firstly, the line is, "I don't wanna die living in a high-rise GRAVE."

ALSO it is " I don't wanna die living in a high rise grave, I PAY TO CALL HOME" which is a fanastic line and my favourite of the song.

I think that the term dieing in a hihg rise grave, means that she doesn't want a corpret life, like in a high rise building.

This is one of my favorite Metric songs because it sounds so unlike Metric. This song is about not living like everyone else "I don't want to die living in a high rise grave" means high-rise building like a corpret one and she doesnt want to die like that

My take on the song is that she has lost something she feels she cannot get back, but she wants to be back there, in a different time, a different space.

I also feel like she is saying she does not want to live the "corporate life" (lord, that spelling is atrocious), a life that is entrapping her. It is dark, dingy, unchanging in this world. She wants more.

Raw sugar I don't want to die living in a high rise grave My baby come home (same black day, high rise grave)

This sounds familiar, like it was used in some hip hop song. I don't mean the lyrics, just the sound. Does anyone know what I'm thinking of?

I also think she is saying I pay to call home instead of my baby come home. Think about the song, doesn't it make a lot more sense to say I pay to call home since she is talking about wanting to get away from the life she is currently living?