[Voice 1: Lia]
[Voice 2: Vani]
[Intro: clinking teacups, toy piano]
[Lia: humming]
La-la-la, a spoonful more
La-la-la, what are you crying for?
[Vani: distant whisper]
Lia... don't drink that.
[Verse 1][Lia]
One cube, two cubes, stir it around
Keep all the ugly feelings down
Honey on my lips, lace on my sleeve
Everybody wants a piece of me
"Be a darling, pour another cup"
"You're so pretty when you don't speak up"
Bite my tongue till it tastes like blood
Call it love, call it love, call it love
[Pre-Chorus][Lia]
If I give you all my candy
Will you finally think I'm sweet?
If I make myself much smaller
Will you save a chair for me?
[Vani: softly]
Look beneath your feet...
[Chorus][Both]
Sugar in the sink, sink, sink
Watch my pretty little world turn pink
Pour it down, don't let it show
Where do all the bitter feelings go?
Drip, drip, down the drain
Sweet little smile with a sour aftertaste
Give, give, till there's nothing left to drink
All my sugar in the sink!
[Verse 2][Vani]
Found her in the kitchen after dark
Scrubbing at a stain shaped like a heart
Said, "They want dessert, I have to bake"
With two trembling hands and a porcelain face
I said, "Niña, you don't owe them cake
Just because they gave you a plate"
She said, "But what if they get mad at me?"
Then the faucet started running from the sea
[Pre-Chorus][Lia]
もっと甘く、もっと優しく
They keep telling me I'm not enough
[Vani]
That's not sugar on the floor
And that water's at the door
[Chorus][Both]
Sugar in the sink, sink, sink
Watch my pretty little world turn pink
Pour it down, don't let it show
Where do all the bitter feelings go?
Drip, drip, down the drain
Sweet little smile with a sour aftertaste
Give, give, till there's nothing left to drink
All my sugar in the sink!
[Bridge: toy piano detunes, water rises]
[Lia]
I made you a cake
You asked for a feast
I gave you my heart
You wanted my teeth
I swallowed my anger
I sweetened my pain
So why does the sugar
Taste just like the rain?
[Vani]
Don't you see? They want you hollow
Pretty enough to swallow
Let the teacups hit the ground
You don't have to make a sound
[Final Chorus: heavy trip-hop drums]
[Lia]
Sugar in the sink, sink, sink
I don't care what anybody thinks
Let it spill, let it flow
I'm not baking for you anymore!
[Both]
Drip, drip, down the drain
All that sweetness couldn't wash away the pain
Crack, crack, hear the porcelain clink
There's no sugar in the sink!
[Outro: running water, three music-box notes]
[Lia: whispered]
Vani... why is it salty?
[Vani]
Because it's coming from the ocean.