This song has evolved over the years including one collaboration with Sealevel that was released in a hand-printed short run on December 30th of 2023. Look out for the Troubled Girl collab that just launched for this tune. If you didn’t get a limited edition Sealevel version copy, you never will.

Included below are all lyrics contributed by J Drew that have appeared in versions to date.

this version recorded solo acoustic

photo by SARAH VIOLETTE

Whatcha think you’re doing?

Giving me a little taste?

You know that I’d be through with you

but it’s a shame to let a good thing go to waste

oh, come on and clue me in,

on how to get the rest.

You know, I wasn’t meaning to be reminded that there’s something that I could be missing

I can’t find the sugar

All’s I can find’s the salt

There’s salt in the salt shaker

There salt in the sugar bowl

and my tongue feels like paper

like it’s been hung to dry for years

I’m dying for a drink of water

but every sip I take tastes like tears

Then here is that sweet thing,

that sugar, that’s what I need

Down, down you dirty dog

or ima put you down

I can’t find your food, boy,

all’s I can find’s your bowl,

here salivating for my flavor,

throw ye a crumb cause ye aint got no soul

and my bones feel like paper

like splinters underneath my skin

I been hiding here thinking I’m safer

when every step I take could do me in

Then here is that sweet thing,

that sugar, that’s what I need.

down, down you dirty dog,

or I’ma put you down

Sugarshaker

Raggedy