System of a Down: Sugar Meaning

Song Released: 1998

Sugar Lyrics

The kombucha mushroom people,
Sitting around all day,
Who can believe you,
Who can believe you,
Let your mother pray, (sugar)

(sugar)
I’m not there all the time you know
Some people, some people, some people,
Call it insane, yeah they...

1. anonymous

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   Nov 27th 2005 !⃝

   Also, that other person who said something about "aspartine kills" was mostly right. I might be talking about something completely different, but it actually says "aspartame kills". I googled aspartame and I've read a couple articles of how aspartame induces brain damage and seizure, so I think they were just trying to get that part across in their music video. I don't know about the actual song though, just about the aspartame thing.
2. johnny_man

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   Nov 26th 2005 !⃝

   ok. This song is about how the object of sugar makes you hyper, people used to use sugar as a drug there is an ingredent that can be used as a drug in sugar, this song talks about how the people that used it went crazy and started causing destruction and being put in jail, in the last part of this song it talks about him sitting in his desolate room, which means a room that is closed off to everyone, that is the rooms that the psycho ward uses, since that sugar can be used as a drug, and if you use it you will go crazy, so don't use it.

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3. anonymous

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   Nov 12th 2005 !⃝

   Sugar is about a certain kind of sugar-substitute which contains Aspartine.
   If you've seen the video, a scene flashes which says "ASPARTINE KILLS".
   Aspartine gives the eater homocidal tendencies.
4. vamp

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   Nov 8th 2005 !⃝

   to me this song is all about how drugs can make you do crazy s**t such as "you know my girl she just lashes out at me sometimes but I just f*****g kick her" but it could also be about how alcohol makes you do this aswell

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5. OzzyOzzy125

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   Nov 4th 2005 !⃝

   True. The kombucha mushrooms are not actually mushrooms but rather a bacterial, mushroom shaped culture that has been used for ages in eastern cultures as a certain type of cure-all. Lately there has been efforts to develop it into a cure for both aids and cancer. The kombucha mushroom people are patients of those diseases...sugar, if i'm not mistaken, is because once refined the kambucha looks a lot like sugar.
6. anonymous

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   Nov 1st 2005 !⃝

   all wrong, kombucha mushroom people is talking about the doctors. they used "kombucha mushroom" to cure diseases. they didnt tell people about this however. that's why soad sings about, big controversy
   SOAD RULES!
7. Wakutiki

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   Oct 9th 2005 !⃝

   This song is about cocaine and the "beast" that it turns you into. Playing Russian roulette, buying a bun and killing people due to the effects of booger "Sugar"

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8. anonymous

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   Sep 23rd 2005 !⃝

   Well, I think it is about the government hiding stuff from us.

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9. slipknot_fiend666

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   Aug 29th 2005 !⃝

   To me, this song has alot of meaning to it, with alot to do about drug addiction and self destruction.

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