“Big Sugar” Lyrics
In June, I recorded a new album with legendary Shane “Sanchez” Smith. we had a great time as usual, and it is by far the best music we’ve yet produced together.
one of the songs I wrote is called “Big Sugar,” after someone suggested it as a stage name for me. so i wrote some lyrics with an outsized personality in mind. The album is being mixed.
and no, we don’t use or condone cocaine or “China white.” (I thought Shane would appreciate that disclaimer. He was a little nervous about naming the album after a song that mentions these things. But the name was inescapable. Thanks, Theresa!)
Dedicated to Florida’s sugar industry and the American appetite. I’d like to write a song about high-fructose corn syrup. This song is kind of bluesy honky tonk, and the chorus is fun to sing and say.
Chorus:
Big sugar, so sweet
Where the swamp meets the street
White powder, wet heat
Just ask all the girls who tasted me
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If you like molasses on your corn bread
Rum with cola and all of your meds
Then sweeten your children and count the dead
Beneath your feet
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We grow and cut the sugar cane
The cauldron boils out all the stains
Who knew that concentrated pain
Could taste so sweet?
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Chorus
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The cake is sweet and attracts the flies
With icing an inch or two high
You might not want to share your slice
But the devil has his piece
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We tend plantations over unmarked graves
And we swing machete blades
Our grief flows out so deep in the glade
The gators get no peace
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Chorus
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We got mountains of the white stuff
It’s a feeding frenzy, can’t get enough
Just look at what its done to us
From our heads to our feet
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It doesn’t stop with guilty bites
For our insatiable appetites
Coffee, cocaine and China white
We live and play to cheat
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Chorus
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Big sugar, so sweet
Where the swamp meets the street
White powder, wet heat
Just ask all the girls who tasted me