Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter

Written by Carole King & Elvis Costello [Intro] Dm   E   (x2) [Verse 1] She said what is it that I’ve done that you want me to be punished As she woke up one day to find he had started to vanish If you overhear voices Perhaps you should not be listening Twitch the vigilant lace Make a sly sour face                    Asus4     A Set the scandalous whispering [Chorus] 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 [Instrumental] Dm   E   (x3) [Bridge] Once there was a time Before he turned strange 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 [Instrumental] Dm   E   (x2) [Verse 2] Now what’s left of the birthday cake is very beautifully frosted An absent father picks up the phone to find the number’s unlisted And while the kids are distracted They don’t notice she’s nervous at all But how long it will take Not to make a mistake                  Asus4    A When a gentleman comes to call [Chorus 2] She’s out on her own with the 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 he might as well forget her ’Cause everybody knows burnt sugar is so bitter Burnt sugar is so bitter Burnt sugar [Outro]