The Sugar’s Gone
By Sarah Hughes

I knew right from the start that you would probably break my poor old heart but
I played around with the fire anyway
Finally I got burned and all of those lessons I didn’t learn but
It’s still hard to forget about yesterday

All of that running around up and down, all over town
Never at a loss for a word
Sitting up all night, talking about who is wrong or right
Trying not to forget what I just heard

I woke up thinking this morning
Should of picked up on all those warning signs
That were being thrown into my face
Sadly I was blind there was too much racing through my mind now the sugar’s gone nothing left but a bitter taste

Now I sit back, I take it all in, let my words flow through my black ink pen
Chewing on a pick and watching bad t. v.
And the candles burn, then they flicker like the lack of my concern
of where in ten years it is that I will be

I look back on my past and I wish it hadn’t had to move so fast
Kind of like the cars going down my quiet street
I turn around and look out my door and I wonder where it is the cars are headed for and I bet those cars, they were wishing that they had feet…..or somebody to meet

I take a deep breath I let it back out, I’m doing what I’m thinking about without a doubt
in my mind that is finally reminding me of myself
I look out my window and I grin, felt so good I had to do it again and again my friend what a long, strange, crazy ride

I woke up thinking this morning
Should of picked up on all those warning signs
That were being thrown into my face
Sadly I was blind there was too much racing through my mind now the sugar’s gone nothing left but a bitter taste