"Sugar Baby" is a song written and performed by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in 2001 as the 12th and final track on his album Love and Theft.
[3] Part of the chord progression and the lines, "Look up, look up, seek your maker, 'fore Gabriel blows his horn" are taken from the song "The Lonesome Road", co-written and performed by Gene Austin, and later covered by Frank Sinatra in a swing arrangement.
An early take of "Can't Wait" from the Time Out of Mind sessions featuring that lyric was released on The Bootleg Series Vol.
[7] In the "Temperance" chapter of his book Dylan's Visions of Sin, literary scholar Christopher Ricks has a lengthy analysis of the song in which he emphasizes how the unusual pauses in Dylan's phrasing create meaning as much as the words do (e.g., "'have / broken many a heart' is itself a broken effect; 'a way of / tearing the world apart' does find itself torn apart in the utterance; and 'just as / sure as we're living' cannot but sound less sure than it claims").
[11] In I'm Not There, Todd Haynes' unconventional biographical film about Dylan: As Heath Ledger's character, Robbie Clark, looks up to see three angels in the sky, Christian Bale's character, Jack Rollins, can be heard saying in voice-over, 'Sure as we're living, sure as we're born, look up, look up, Gabriel blows his horn'".