Marillion - Sugar Mice

Song from the album "Clutching at Straws" 1987...Enjoy!
Lyrics:
I was flicking through the channels on the TV
On a Sunday in Milwaukee in the rain
Trying to piece together conversations
Trying to find out where to lay the blame

But when it comes right down to it there's no use trying to pretend
For when it gets right down to it there's no one here that's left to blame
Blame it on me, you can blame it on me
We're just sugar mice in the rain

I heard Sinatra calling me through the floorboards
Where you pay a quarter for a partnership in rhyme
To the jukebox crying in the corner
While the waitress is counting out the time

For when it comes right down to it there's no use trying to pretend
For when it gets right down to it there's no one really left to blame
Blame it on me, you can blame it on me
We're just sugar mice in the rain

'Cos I know what I feel, know what I want I know what I am
Daddy took a rain check
' Cos I know what I want, know what I feel I know what I need
Daddy took a rain check, your daddy took a rain check
Ain't no one in here that's left to blame but me
Blame it on me, blame it on me

Well the toughest thing that I ever did was talk to the kids on the phone
When I heard them asking questions I knew that you were all alone
Can't you understand that the government left me out of work
I just couldn't stand the looks on their faces saying, "What a jerk"

So if you want my address it's number one at the end of the bar
Where I sit with the broken angels clutching at straws and nursing our scars
Blame it on me, blame it on me,
Sugar mice in the rain, your daddy took a rain check

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Marillion
• Sugar
• Mice
• Fish
• Rothery
• Mosley
• Trewavas
• Kelly

[Sims2Yognaught]

This happened to my Dad and his ex-wife now he met my mum and its much better for him

[MrEdnilsonjr]

HOLY CRAP! AMAZING SONG!

[wwwMISTEYnl]

great song

[mollysangelique]

die,fish,is,disturbed,benauwde­,het,jou,jy,kiest,playlist

[Jacoisms]

Jig got the message.. I gave a thumb up... This song got a lot of people sober.... And is a song I often go back to to remember where I came from... But this cut is really out of context here, without the entire album theme re: alcoholism... Fish left after this album

This daddy has not taken a rain-check - YET...

Thanks Bill..

[racv8]

@marciopdelgado

why terrible? I think its real. I´ve found myself in the same sitution. Sitting in a bar and thinking about things in the past, misplaced relationships and such things. then I´m drunk and walk home.

[mikolaf]

I love it...

[loreztaken]

stunning tune from the great Marillion.

[marciopdelgado]

Great music, terrible 80's clip. :)

[Ibanezman1007]

Good SONG!