shake the sugar tree

love

you're getting lazy. you're forgetting to give me

sweet sugar

words that i wanna hear. you been neglecting me

you know jealousy it is bitter as a green spring berry. and just like fruit from a fickle vine

you turn sweet in the nick o' time. love

you only come alive

when you're losing me. and it's a childish game

i gotta shake you up just to wake you up

to make you love me. i'll shake the sugar tree

'til i feel your love falling all around me. you gotta tend to what you planted

and if you take my love for granted

baby

i'll shake the sugar tree. another night and you're sleeping

i'm awake and i'm dreaming. oh honey

'bout the way that it used to be. a little time's gone by

now do you think that i'm content with the cooking

and the payin' the rent? no i wanna know if your love's all spent. i'll shake the sugar tree

'til i feel your love falling all around me. you gotta tend to what you planted

and if you take my love for granted

baby

i'll shake the sugar tree. i've got to raise some commotion

before you show me some real emotion. i'll shake the sugar tree

'til i feel your love falling all around me. you gotta tend to what you planted

and if you take my love for granted

baby

i'll shake the sugar tree.