[ti:Sugar Tongue (Band Version)] [ar:Indigo Girls] [al:The Essential Indigo Girls] [offset:0] [00:00.39]Sugar Tongue (Band Version) - Indigo Girls [00:17.17]All the fur and fin [00:19.79]will lose again [00:25.60]Cause our better is [00:28.03]their worst reckonin' [00:34.52]And our fine-feathered friends [00:39.26]will sing until they bleed [00:42.82]And how will we [00:43.76]replace that symphony? [00:51.00]I've got the blackest boots, [00:52.99]the whitest skin [00:55.61]Satisfy my sugar tongue again [00:59.54]Bring me love that [01:01.41]buys us shoe-shine days [01:04.10]Guilded verses for your ethylene [01:07.97]And sing it to me free and clean [01:16.58]All the kids come home [01:19.08]with foreign limbs [01:25.19]From hunting trips abroad [01:27.56]they lose again [01:33.99]And we'll teach them [01:35.36]how to talk [01:37.73]And whistle while they walk [01:44.03]And do the dirty work [01:46.59]of battle hymns [01:52.46]I've got the blackest boots, [01:54.64]the whitest skin [01:57.20]Satisfy my sugar tongue again [02:01.18]Sing me love that [02:02.99]buys us shoe-shine days [02:05.80]Guilded verses [02:06.49]for your ethylene [02:07.48] [02:09.47]And sing it to [02:10.53]me free and clean [02:13.96] [02:30.97]Drinking tea with [02:31.78]milk and Janjaweed [02:39.33]Pontificate on genocide [02:41.89] [02:44.25]or greed [02:48.31]With a spoonful of descent [02:53.62]For the orchestra of need [02:56.11]Is just enough to [02:57.11]please this colony [03:04.60]I've got the blackest boots, [03:06.72]the whitest skin [03:08.96]Satisfy my sugar tongue again [03:13.46]Bring me lullabies [03:15.08]and morphine-dreams [03:17.57]Belladonna with her atropine [03:21.70]And sing it to me free and clean