Elvis Costello Sugar Won't Work song lyrics

Lightning up!

And shake the ground

Is that a horn that's blowing?

Or a bell that's tolling?

Walls are falling

Ships pulled out from their mooring

Is that a river or just a road the storm has stolen?

And this will predict the times these signs will bring

Me and my stupid heart

We were never apart

But now sugar won't work

Lightning up!

And fly the coop

Far from this tin-pan alley oop

Did you think I was your dupe?

I hear such lies and howlers

Words to pull out your molars

And this will predict the times these signs will bring

Me and my stupid heart

We were never apart

But now sugar won't work, sugar won't work

Lightning up!

Sugar the pill

A wall of ocean ten miles high

Metal darts torn from the sky

Like wanton boys make noise pull wings from flies

And this will predict the times these signs will bring

Me and my stupid heart

We were never apart

But now sugar won't work, (sugar won't work)