Elvis Costello – Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter (Guitar)

          Am                   G                           F
She said, what is it that I've done that you want me to be punished

       Am                 G                      F
As she woke up one day to find he had started to vanish

                G
If you overhear voices

Dm                        G
Perhaps you should not be listening

Dm                  F
Twitch the vigilant lace,

                 G
Make a sly, sour face,

                   Asus4     A
Set the scandalous whispering

Em                            D           A
She's out on her own with the rest of her riches

       Em                            D          A
As the kids paint him out of their refrigerator pictures

    Dm
She picks up the bills

     Em
Pays off the babysitter

       F                     F           Dm    E
'Cause everybody knows burnt sugar is so bitter

Bm               Em7
Once there was a time

Bm               Em7
Before he turned strange

Am                                 C
She thought they would be together for more than a lifetime

Bm          Em7
Look at him now

Bm                  Em7
My, how things have changed

F                                   Em
He could tear the sweetheart out of any girl

Bm        E7
On just a whim

    C                         Am
And turn it from a candy to a caramel

     Bm                              Em
Then make her hate the silly way she used to feel

    Cmaj7               Fmaj7 F
And say, I know nothing about him

           Am                   G                        F
Now what's left of the birthday cake is very beautifully frosted

          Am                  G                            F
An absent father picks up the phone to find the number's unlisted

                          G
And while the kids are distracted

Dm                      G          Dm
They don't notice she's nervous at all

                     F
But how long it will take

                 G
Not to make a mistake

                 Asus4    A
When a gentleman comes to call

Em                            D           A
She's out on her own with the rest of her riches

       Em                     D          A
As the kids tear down their refrigerator pictures

     Dm                 Em
They already know how a woman may advance

       F                       Em
From a pretty picture hat to a supermarket trance

    Dm                Em
But if he's unkind he might as well forget her

       F
'Cause everybody knows

      F           Dm    E
burnt sugar is so bitter

      Dm   E      Dm    E
Burnt sugar is so bitter

      Dm   E
Burnt sugar