What is “Sugar” about?
"Sugar" is a carefree love song about a Friday night with the windows down, a familiar song on the radio and two people singing off-key with nothing left to prove. Its imagery is all sweetness, from cherries and lemonade to cotton candy clouds, and the narrator wants "dessert before the dinner." Sixth on Velvet, it is one of the album's lightest moments, trading intensity for summer-afternoon playfulness and a sing-along doo-doo-doo refrain.
Sugar lyrics
Ooh, sugar, sugar
Give it to me now
Friday night and everything is butter smooth
Got the windows down and nothing left to prove
Radio is playing something we both know
Singing off-key, putting on a show
Cherry on the top of every word you say
Sweet enough to ruin my whole Saturday
Lemonade and sunshine on repeat for days
You're the kind of trouble that I never chase away
Sugar, give me sugar
Sweeter than a summer afternoon
Sugar, need that sugar
Melting like a melody in June
Got me spinning round the room
Give me sugar
Caramel vibrations in the evening air
Cotton candy clouds and not a single care
Laughing at the chaos, dancing through the mess
Life is way too short for anything but yes
You're the hook I didn't know I had to hear
Addicted to the way you whisper in my ear
Every little flavor that you bring my way
Dessert before the dinner, I don't want to wait
Sugar, give me sugar
Sweeter than a summer afternoon
Sugar, need that sugar
Melting like a melody in June
Got me spinning round the room
Give me sugar
Doo doo doo, doo doo doo
Sprinkle it on everything I do
Doo doo doo, doo doo doo
Sweet tooth and it only craves you
Sugar, give me sugar
Sweeter than a summer afternoon
Sugar, need that sugar
Melting like a melody in June
Got me spinning round the room
Give me sugar
Sugar, sugar
Mmm, so sweet
Give me that sugar