From the recording The Amazing Beautiful

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Lyrics

DOWN IN THE SUGAR HOLE (Walsh)

Stevie wakes to the alarm at 3:15 in the morning
Kisses his wife on the cheek and drives down to the dock
Down in the sugar hole he shovels and he sweats
And dreams of the grandchildren he hasn’t met yet

Stevie has a hard time keeping the sugar out of his eyes
It burns but the money’s so good he’s willing to compromise
He says I finally found a way to survive
Down in the sugar hole

And the supermarket shelves are stocked with sugar
And the restaurant tables and the coffee bars
Stevie wonders how can this world be so sweet
With all of this tragedy down in the sugar hole

One time they found a dead man
He’d been loading sugar from a factory on the island
Just a temporary worker with a temporary life
Trying to feed his wife and kids and get through college
The authorities shipped him back on the next sugar boat

I have been accused of sugar coating my words
Explaining myself with a false sense of security
But that’s just the way I was raised
For you see I was conceived down in the sugar hole
Down in the sugar hole
Down in the sugar hole
Down in the sugar hole

Tell me what’s it all about
Sometimes I think too hard
And I forget to get myself back to the sugar hole
Way down deep in the sugar hole

It’s a never ending dream
It’s a never ending dream
It’s a never ending dream
Are you gonna take me back?