Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter

She said, what is it that I've done that you want me to be punished As she woke up one day to find that he had started to vanish But if you overhear voices Perhaps you should not be listening Twitch the vigilant lace, Make a sly, sour face, Set the scandalous whispering She's out on her own with the rest of her riches As the kids paint him out of their refrigerator pictures She picks up the bills Pays off the babysitter 'Cause everybody knows Burnt sugar is so bitter Once there was a time Before he turned strange And she thought they would be together for more than a lifetime Look at him now My, how things have changed He could tear the sweetheart out of any girl On just a whim And turn it from a candy to a caramel Then make her hate the silly way she used to feel And say, I know nothing about him Now what's left of the birthday cake is very beautiful and frosted An absent father picks up the phone to find the number's unlisted And while the kids are distracted They don't notice that she's nervous at all But how long it will take Not to make a mistake When a gentleman comes to call She's out on her own with 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 But if he's unkind then he might as well forget her 'Cause everybody knows Burnt sugar is so bitter

Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter (unreleased song) Words by Carole King & Elvis Costello Performed by Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve (1999) Elvis Costello & The Imposters (2004) First known performance:  October 12, 1999, Louisville, KY Last known performance:  April 3, 2004, Oxford, MS      (57 known performances)

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• CaroleKing.com