Our most popular song. It was composed in the parking lot of the Safeway grocery store. We had been hit with a severe case of the munchies. While Jabo went in the store to buy us a bag of caramels and a box of butter mints, I wrote these lyrics on scraps of paper from the glove box of our VW bug. We went on to turn it into an award-winning music video. To this day, people come up to us on the street and ask us to sing Sugar Rush. I guess it hit a chord in the collective sugar-loving unconscious!
Sugar Rush!
Sugar Rush!
Just drank a Pepsi, ate a Hostess cupcake
I’m high on sugar, and make no mistake
I’m just a junkie, gotta get my fix
Run to the kitchen try to shoot up some Trix! I need a...
Sugar Rush!
Sugar Rush!
Sugar Rush!
Sugar Rush!
Been eating sugar since I was a child
And even then it made me jumpy and wild
It makes me nervous; it’s not really food
But, oh, Sugar, it tastes so good! I need a...
Sugar Rush!
Sugar Rush!
Sugar Rush!
Sugar Rush!
It’s just like cocaine, except you get fat
It’s fed to babies, now, how about that?
I need more sugar about every day
I’m hooked on sugar, what more can I say?
I love to feel the sugar course through my veins
I’ve got to have some soon; I’m going insane
Just had some sugar, but I gotta get more
Oh, Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, take me to the store! I need a...
Sugar Rush!
Sugar Rush!
Sugar Rush!
Sugar Rush!
(Written Jan. 21, 1982)
© Pat and Jerry Grigadean, 1998