Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter chords by Elvis Costello

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
DmDm  E MajorE  (x2)

Verse 1:
     A minorAm          G+G              FF
She said, what is it that I've done that you want me to be punished
    A minorAm         G+G           FF
As she woke up one day to find he had started to vanish
        G+G
If you overhear voices
DmDm            G+G
Perhaps you should not be listening
DmDm         FF
Twitch the vigilant lace,
         G+G
Make a sly, sour face,
          Asus4Asus4   A augmentedA
Set the scandalous whispering

Chorus:
E minorEm              D MajorD      A augmentedA
She's out on her own with the rest of her riches
    E minorEm              D MajorD     A augmentedA
As the kids paint him out of their refrigerator pictures
  DmDm
She picks up the bills
   E minorEm
Pays off the babysitter
    FF           FF      DmDm  E MajorE
'Cause everybody knows burnt sugar is so bitter

Instrumental:
DmDm  E MajorE  (x3)

Bridge:
B minorBm        E minor 7Em7
Once there was a time
B minorBm        E minor 7Em7
Before he turned strange
A minorAm                 C majorC
She thought they would be together for more than a lifetime
B minorBm     E minor 7Em7
Look at him now
B minorBm         E minor 7Em7
My, how things have changed
FF                  E minorEm
He could tear the sweetheart out of any girl
B minorBm    E7E7
On just a whim
  C majorC             A minorAm
And turn it from a candy to a caramel
   B minorBm               E minorEm
Then make her hate the silly way she used to feel
  Cmaj7Cmaj7        Fmaj7Fmaj7 FF
And say, I know nothing about him

Instrumental:
DmDm  E MajorE  (x2)

Verse 2:
      A minorAm          G+G            FF
Now what's left of the birthday cake is very beautifully frosted
     A minorAm         G+G              FF
An absent father picks up the phone to find the number's unlisted
             G+G
And while the kids are distracted
DmDm           G+G     DmDm
They don't notice she's nervous at all
           FF
But how long it will take
         G+G
Not to make a mistake
         Asus4Asus4  A augmentedA
When a gentleman comes to call

Chorus 2:
E minorEm              D MajorD      A augmentedA
She's out on her own with the rest of her riches
    E minorEm           D MajorD     A augmentedA
As the kids tear down their refrigerator pictures
   DmDm         E minorEm
They already know how a woman may advance
    FF            E minorEm
From a pretty picture hat to a supermarket trance
  DmDm        E minorEm
But if he's unkind he might as well forget her
    FF
'Cause everybody knows
   FF      DmDm  E MajorE
burnt sugar is so bitter
   DmDm  E MajorE   DmDm  E MajorE
Burnt sugar is so bitter
   DmDm  E MajorE
Burnt sugar

Outro:
DmDm  E MajorE