Sugar Substitute Lyrics

Instead of coming back home to me

You made your way back to the bar

Where the boys were always buying the drinks

And you can brush off your old repertoire

Champion of the bait and switch

You were almost too sweet for me

And this sugar substitute, you've been serving up lately

Just lays me to waste, with its tin aftertaste

Now I'm back with the bitter

stuck in the bland

Divining for water with my head in the sand

Sift through the wreckage

Looking for clues

Trapped in my own skin, discarded and bruised

I miss the sugar

Even though it's clearly rotted my head

I miss the sugar

Even though you clearly left me for dead

I never know what's good for me

It never took much to draw me in

And my short-term memory

It's so defective it's almost a sin

It was right there on the tip of my tongue

But I stared too long at the sun

And the part of me that has any sense

Only works in the past tense

You laid me to waste

With your honey aftertaste

Now I'm back with the bitter

Stuck in the bland

Divining for water with my head in the sand

Sift through the wreckage

Looking for clues

Trapped in my own skin, discarded and bruised

I miss the sugar

Even though it's clearly rotted my head

I miss the sugar

Even though you clearly left me for dead

We skipped right to the ending, for the spoiler of the century

Right when you first got hold of me, and you granted me entry

I guess I played this all wrong

Now the coda is half the song

I was the victim, you were the vice

You were the sugar, and I was the spice

You were the billboard, and I was the road

I was the burden, you the mother load

You were the grifter, and I was the mark

You were the flare, and I was the dark

I was the engine, and you were the fuel

You were the joker, and I was the fool

I was the victim, you were the vice

You were the sugar, and I was the spice

You were the billboard, and I was the road

I was the burden, you the mother load

You were the grifter, and I was the mark

You were the flare, and I was the dark

I was the engine, and you were the fuel

You were the joker, and I was the fool

Yeah, I was the fool

I was the fool