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Sugar Lyrics
On the Vermont Transit Bus I leaned my arm into alittle chink of sun,
Going somewhere older than I was,
Strapped into something tight, keeping me small.
I dug into you like rock climbing;
Too scared of coming down,
Too scared of going up,
Too scared of rockface.
I should've split my sides or spilled my guts or hit you or something,
But I was good, and your father's little pancakes
So round and perfect and me sitting up too straight,
Laughing in wrong places, kissing you,
Kissing up, kissing too soon.
When the cock crows
When the morning comes where will I go?
When the cock crows
When the love is gone where will I go?
And when you got me pregnant I stopped the party and
I stopped the typewriter and I stopped your dumb ball game in the red barn and I
Stopped your father and bled instead.
And I felt the lie - something sticky on the inside,
A bitter wind in my throat,
Stopping me wanting,
In my stomach, in my head and you said
Sugar sugar, you couldn't come come
Sugar sugar, without your mother
Sugar sugar, you couldn't taste it
Sugar sugar, in my throat.
When the cock crows
When the morning comes where will I go?
When the cock crows
When the love is gone where will I go?
Going somewhere older than I was,
Strapped into something tight, keeping me small.
I dug into you like rock climbing;
Too scared of coming down,
Too scared of going up,
Too scared of rockface.
I should've split my sides or spilled my guts or hit you or something,
But I was good, and your father's little pancakes
So round and perfect and me sitting up too straight,
Laughing in wrong places, kissing you,
Kissing up, kissing too soon.
When the morning comes where will I go?
When the cock crows
When the love is gone where will I go?
I stopped the typewriter and I stopped your dumb ball game in the red barn and I
Stopped your father and bled instead.
And I felt the lie - something sticky on the inside,
A bitter wind in my throat,
Stopping me wanting,
In my stomach, in my head and you said
Sugar sugar, without your mother
Sugar sugar, you couldn't taste it
Sugar sugar, in my throat.
When the morning comes where will I go?
When the cock crows
When the love is gone where will I go?
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ah hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!
every word in this song is expressed with exact intention and expression. the sucking up to his father, the little perfect pancakes - the metaphor thats shes not perfect & symetrical. its just so real.
uhm idk larojas. i have this album & its definatly called Sugar & i dont think cuckroach melds with "when the morning comes, where will i go?" because the cock, or rooster, crows in the morning as a rude awakening. she doesnt know where to go to who to run to when the cock cries the blunt crow.
nottoolateforcoffee, i love how you've described the song and its message. This is exaclty what a song should be - taking your fears and anxieties and putting it all into lyrics. This is the kind of song that can open our eyes to a situation we don't want to be in, and leaving it up to us to finally make the decision to act.
I think that I liked this song when it first came out, and now I've lived a little more, and I like it even more.
It is clearly intended to evoke something disgusting since the song is actually called Cuckroach (not Sugar), and so the lyric says "cuckroach" and not "cock crows".
One thing is for sure: she is not happy about this guy.