You Won't Believe the True Story Behind Sugar Mice by Marillion

[@igluonvinyls]

When I first listened to Sugar Mice, the lyrics echoed personal experiences in ways I didn’t expect. It became more than just a song-it felt deeply personal. So, I took a deep dive into its meaning and my connection to it-check it out at the end of the video. Have you ever had a song hit you like that? What do you think is the real meaning behind Sugar Mice? Let me know in the comments below.

[@DarrenJones042]

Dito. Hearing it again after many years it's nearly bringing me to tears

[@igluonvinyls]

🙏

[@McClory1964]

In 1988, I was laid off and I couldn’t find a job. I had no choice but to move closer to the city for more job opportunities. At the time, I was living with my fiancé and her five year old daughter. Distance and the lack of confidence led to the demise of our relationship. I was a huge fan of Clutching at Straws and Sugar Mice, especially. I didn’t really feel the meaning of this song until I lost my future wife and daughter. One day it hit me like a ton of bricks and I weeped like a child. I still love this song and, after all these years, it still hits home. I don’t believe I ever truly got over that loss. Since then, I have married and raised three sons. While I am truly grateful for what I have, I will never be able to listen to this song without a sense of melancholy and remorse. Yet, I still love the song and listen to it every chance I get. Some pain just feels better to music.

[@igluonvinyls]

@@McClory1964 thank you for sharing your life experience it was truly touching. May god bless you. 🙏

[@skypiratez]

You made me cry man…

[@claudedelalorraine6760]

I love so much this band for so many years ,I always come back to m'y favorite band❤

[@Kim-iv4ty]

'Clutching at straws' is my favourite Marillion album.

[@ChristinaQ666]

1988 I was 15 years old and that time I heard marillion, pink floyd, deep purple 👍👍

[@TheFirefoxSystem]

In 1988 I listened to Sugar Mice with a sense of melancholy, thinking that we are all sugar mice in the rain, like sweets that melt in the rain or ice that melts in the sun, so are our lives, fragile and short. Then 10 years later my wife and I broke up, due to various misunderstandings and the stubbornness of the woman I loved I lost my home and the opportunity to see my 7-year-old daughter grow up close. It was obviously my fault, to try to improve my job position I had started studying computer science and unknowingly I neglected my wife who evidently didn't care that I was making a career. At that point the awareness of feeling like a sugar mouse in the rain became reality. Alone, in a small rented apartment, without even friends, because they didn't know who was right and distanced themselves from both of us. Now that I am 64, every time I listen to Sugar Mice I cry, I cry because the knowledge of having lost everything I had is a punch in the stomach. The one who was my wife and my first love, when we met, she looked at me the same way as the girl in the video (at minute 3:15) and incredibly she looks a lot like her. Blame it on me, blame it on me! Is it all my fault? Even today I often feel like a sugar mouse in the rain! 😢

[@blackpulsar303]

Hi from Ukraine, Kherson! Marillion super prog-rock!!! Dream Theater played together!

[@igluonvinyls]

🇺🇦 ❤️🇺🇸

[@gordonmcinnes8328]

The character 'Torch' is the visual for Clutching at Straws, this is the album of Marillion in chaos, prior to breaking up. 'Torch' represents the lost dreams of fame and stardom when faced with the realities of the life style. There is a B Side 'Tux On' which more graphically is about this same theme.

[@igluonvinyls]

Excellent 😄🙏♥️💯🇺🇸

[@carlospaulalfonzo6919]

To me Sugar Mice is the PERFECT Marillion song from the Fish era (and maybe beyond that!). The Recital of the Script DVD includes an interview done with Fish backstage after a show back in 1982. In it, Fish confesses that to him, his composing songs was an exorcism and a sharing with the audience what things in his life had gone wrong...saying this, I guess that Fish's four studio albums with Marillion are like a personal diary, so the kid playing guitar in the Sugar Nice video is a version of the kid in Misplaced Childhood which are Derek William Dick. Remarkable!

[@fritzwillems8589]

Was für ein großartiger Song. Nach all den Jahren... unfassbar groß!! 🙆🙋🎉😻❣️

[@igluonvinyls]

🙏

[@richmcelmeel5430]

Fish was the voice of my parental relationships. Sugar Mice, my dad. Alcoholic, fleeting connections, just not what it should have been. His solo tune, Gentlemen's Excuse Me, portrayed my Mom perfectly. Now he is retiring, he'll be missed.

[@igluonvinyls]

Thanks for the comments ❤️😍🙏💯🎸🇺🇸

[@rumo-ke7gr]

I will see Fish in Karlsruhe, Germany this Saturday 😊

[@igluonvinyls]

@rumo-ke7gr you are so lucky 🙏 Have fun 🎸❤️🇺🇸💯♥️

[@igluonvinyls]

I wish I was you

[@richmcelmeel5430]

@@rumo-ke7gr too expensive for him to play the states

[@DarrenJones042]

The thing with prog rock is it's never a full story revealed in one act... add Kayley and the rest and you know it's about screwing up with his first love (real or imagined)

[@igluonvinyls]

Very well said thank you 🙏

[@Peter-kn8qm]

This song is amazing, but I'm a result of a misplaced childhood

[@ArthurMol-ib5tg]

Masterpiece

[@igluonvinyls]

Fish is the man 🙏🎸💯🇺🇸❤️

[@ArthurMol-ib5tg]

@@igluonvinyls i saw him live last sunday in Maastricht.

[@igluonvinyls]

@ArthurMol-ib5tg awesome 👏

[@armandotorres4039]

👍!

[@igluonvinyls]

@armandotorres4039 🙏

[@Fabinhowild]

Simplesmente a musica e clipe mais incrivel do Marillion era Fish

[@igluonvinyls]

🙏🎸❤️💯

[@mstozsto4756]

Frank Sinatra sang "Stormy weather", a "torch song" from 1933. 'Since my gal and I Ain't together Keeps raining all the time'

[@VinylShack]

Thanks for the shout out. 🙂 I'm glad I could turn you on to something new for you. That's what it's all about after all. Nice video and review. That was very interesting. Great job. 👍

[@igluonvinyls]

Thanks much 🙏❤️💯🎸✌️

[@patriklindholm7576]

There was nothing about the intention behind the lyrics here, just a pair of narrators airing out their subjective interpretations. Dishonest clickbait, nothing more.

[@igluonvinyls]

Thanks for sharing your opinion ✌️

[@patriklindholm7576]

@@igluonvinyls Correction: verifiable fact, not opinion.

[@igluonvinyls]

The title implied that there is a story behind the literal meaning of “Sugar Mice” that’s all. No clickbait intended.

[@stuartwaby3081]

What's with the yank comments, they nothing about the English!

[@omegaman6175]

. This was not good use of my time listening. You didn't give me anything that I do not already know.

[@igluonvinyls]

Ok thank you 🙏