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,
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
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 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
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 he might as well forget her
'Cause everybody knows
Burnt sugar is so bitter

© 1997 ELORAC Music (BMI), Plangent Visions Music, Inc. (PRS)

Lyrics courtesy of ELORAC Music.