Sugar Tongue - Indigo Girls

All the fur and fin will lose again

Cause our better is their worst reckonin'

And our fine-feathered friends will sing until they bleed

And how will we replace that symphony?

I’ve got the blackest boots, the whitest skin

Satisfy my sugar tongue again

Bring me love that buys us shoe-shine days

Guilded verses for your ethylene

And sing it to me free and clean

All the kids come home with foreign limbs

From hunting trips abroad they lose again

And we’ll teach them how to talk

And whistle while they walk

And do the dirty work of battle hymns

I’ve got the blackest boots, the whitest skin

Satisfy my sugar tongue again

Sing me love that buys us shoe-shine days

Guilded verses for your ethylene

And sing it to me free and clean

Drinking tea with milk and Janjaweed

Pontificate on genocide or greed

With a spoonful of descent

For the orchestra of need

Is just enough to please this colony

I’ve got the blackest boots, the whitest skin

Satisfy my sugar tongue again

Bring me lullabies and morphine-dreams

Belladonna with her atropine

And sing it to me free and clean