Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter chords by Elvis Costello

Intro:
Dm   E   (x2)

Verse 1:
          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

Chorus:
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

Instrumental:
Dm   E   (x3)

Bridge:
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

Instrumental:
Dm   E   (x2)

Verse 2:
           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

Chorus 2:
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

Outro:
Dm   E