Sugar Pill

i reread some of the lyrics and i know some are wrong. .but what does this song mean?

It is about going into depression after losing someone you love or care about deeply. Sugar Pills are often used to fight depression

I think the first stanza is:

"Slip into the warmer touch with a photograph of some blonde Once you're gone I came home, but my key didn't like the door"

Now, IF those are indeed the lyrics, then I think that casts the song in a slightly different light. I agree with tharper that it's about going into depression after losing someone. But I think the person he lost was the girl in the photograph, and despite having this other girl who's taken her place, he can't get over that original loss...so he's willing to let the new one go because of it.

The very errant, yet very much a significant, establishing, FIRST paragraph:

EXISTING POSTED LYRICS of 1st PARAGRAPH: (makes vague, unrelated sense)

Slip into the warm of a touch When the photograph of so much Once you're gone ”I came home, but my key didn't unlock the door”

Yes, the lyrics read as cool and sleek and mysteriously coded in AMBULANCE LTD’s own unique lyric style… (which I have to interject at this point and say that MADISON5’s idea of what the lyrics are in the 4th line is something that most adults have said once in their lives when their key stops working: “I came home, but my key didn't unlock the door.” This sentence’s wording is FAR from the sleek, catchy, hidden meaning style of anything else they would ever write. So, then I saw THERMO4’s perception of the exact words… I was earlier floored when I read Madison5’s wording of this line in her posting of the lyrics, as I have ALWAYS…for 13 years now…sang out loud ‘I came home but my key DIDN’T LIKE the door.” I was no longer alienated with the song. <WHEW!> But still, the paragraph’s relation to virtually every other paragraph the follows it, (well, in my own translation and perception of this song’s meaning, at the bottom of this comment.) has absolutely NO significant connection to all the stanzas that follow it.

Then, lastly, I made a serious mental note of Thermo4 cracking the code of the 2nd sentence. ABSOLUTELY! “…with a photograph of some blonde” It’s plain as day now. (I had for over a decade always sung: “…with a photograph OF SOMEONE”)

Go on YouTube and search for “Sugar Pill (demo), to hear this even more clearly

OK…if you are still reading this far, then be prepared to have your socks knocked off. I am 99.9% sure I’ve figured this song out 100%. If you love the song as much as I do, you’re gonna truly dig what my mind epiphany-envisioned as I listened to the song about 5 times while listening to the lyrics while reading. ( paragraph 2 on…haha)

Now, you might think this is a stale meaning that I came to, but bear with me until the end…and then I guarantee that you’ll be playing the song while reading the lyrics while smiling your ass off because you’ll finally see it all….and none of it is far fetched nonsense: Here goes:

The “character” (who I will call the “SINGER” from here on out) is singing about his lust for money, and yes…the immediate and extended aftermath of a HUGE bank heist that he and a group pulled off. (And nooo….the plotline of events in what I am about to describe are NOTHING like the plot of TAKERS. That would be stale and bogus to do in a movie soundtrack’s song in this century. This is a totally different plot, and if THERMO4 hadn’t piped up, I wouldn’t have caught the opening of the story. Here goes, paragraph by paragraph:

In THIS one, I ultimately translated 1 & 3, and THERMO4 ultimately translated 2 and 4, oddly)

(1) SLIP INTO THE WARM OF A TUB WITH THE PHOTOGRAPH OF SOME BLONDE, WHO WANTS YOU GONE… I CAME HOME, BUT MY KEY DIDN'T LIKE THE DOOR.

{The SINGER, who has been planning the possibly life-destroying heist with his “business partners” had decided to fully trust and confide in his woman (blonde) and tell her what was going down soon. She left him for this, and the SINGER is holding a photograph of his blonde as he slips down into the warmth of a therapeutic and very sad tub.

Next paragraph SINGER pulls it together and the heist story begins… (NOTE: None of the following lyrics have been altered by myself whatsoever, by the way…. only my meaning translation)

(2) TOOK A MILLION FOR EVERYONE TIME SHOULD HAVE OVERCOME WITH YOUR LUCK AND MY WORD BUT I DIDN'T HAVE ONE

The SINGER did his part in the successful heist (1st sentence) But it has been quite a long while since the heist and although he’s tried every technique alone or with helpful partner (with your luck and my word,etc), the SINGER just can’t shake all of his mental s*** and the gears won’t stop turning…(connecting to paragraph 3)

(3) SO I'LL BE ON MY OWN YOU'RE MORE THAN I CAN LOSE

Throughout history, in most every successful multi-person heist (4 or more robbers), the ultimate, FINAL job of everyone is to split the loot, and part ways permanently, all going to different countries. (minimizing the chances of getting caught, obviously.) I think that’s what he’s saying “So I’ll be on my own…you’re more than I can lose.” Clearly, remaining in their company would be a death wish.

NOW, THARPER mentioned that “Sugar Pills” are often used to fight depression. I don’t know about YOU, but MONEY almost always fixes any depression I might have. (I think “Sugar Pill” is a concept here…not an actual Tic-Tac being serenaded to.)

(4) I LOVE YOU FOR THE TIME THAT YOU GIVE MY SUGAR PILL

The SINGER, like myself, loves money so much when he has it, too! (5) is now probably my favorite paragraph…now that I know what it means!)

SEVEN STORIES THEY'LL HAVE TO CLIMB TO FIND OUT WHAT WE'VE DONE TO LET THEM ALL BE GONE BUT CAN'T YOU READ THE SIGN?

The SINGER is reflecting about the RECENT heist with someone...or himself I guess…about how the slow, clueless, detectives will have to do SOOO MUCH just to simply figure out WHAT the HECK THEY’VE DONE in this complex, behemoth heist! So slow that the detectives will also discover that they let ALL of them slip through their fingers. (Sentence 3)

ROBBER to imaginary detective: “Didn’t any of you detectives have the slightest CLUE that anything serious was about to occur before our heist?”(Sentence 4)

(6) During the SINGER’S new life moving around the world trying to find normalcy again, he likely changes his appearance/persona. In the South (New Orleans’s outskirts, the bayous, etc. It is not uncommon for white magic rituals to be performed for someone in the back of a ritualist’s store. (Sentence 1 is more recipe’-ish, Sentence 2 is supposed to sound like a single line of a spell / chant) BURN ME UP AND MIX ME WITH SALT BLUEGRASS AND A WALK ON THE SUN

(errant posted lyrics) AND THE ONE VISITING THOSE JUST WHERE THEY GO
(????)

(Correction in posted lyrics after listening to “demo”) ANYONE VISITING KNOWS JUST WHERE TO GO

SO I'LL BE ON MY OWN YOU'RE MORE THAN I CAN LOSE AND NOW I'M TAKING MORE THAN MY FILL

The SINGER is either taking more of his share of the loot, cheating his “partners” before they disperse permanently…or he is going to do another heist all on his own, therefore getting ALL of the loot to himself.

MY SUGAR PILL MY SUGAR PILL MY SUGAR PILL MY SUGAR PILL

Now guys, if I am way off base here or got something misconstrued in all I wrote above wrong somehow in your eyes….I have NO PROBLEM hearing about it, taking constructive criticism, etc. I enjoy hearing about other’s translations; if you can also get them hook, line, and sinker tell me what goes on in that mind of yours! SDRangerSINGS