The last and concluding verse fades off in the melody of surroundings and musings which is all that's left. She's out there on her own and she's alright Sunny came home ![]() Go as extreme as you want and mourn to death upon your solitude, but when the end is near, your hearty instincts are going to call upon you and say words like 'Count the years, you always knew it Strike a match, go on and do it' Your instincts would always prevail over your luxuries. Get the kids and bring a sweater Dry is good and wind is better Count the years, you always knew it Strike a match, go on and do itįirstly save what's left of you and guard them to dry winds, which would at least not drench and ruin them. And if it gets on your very last nerve all you can wish for is to walk into the fire. Negativities are not something that we as humans tend to accept in our life readily but as you allow them to step in by their mere infliction in form of eavesdropping or teasing, the drug gets into you pleasingly poisoning the positivity out of your life. Realising intensions behind your vengeance is realising how you lead them into your life. ![]() 2 The song is written in the key of B minor (with its chorus in D major) in common time with a tempo of 84 beats per minute. I am incapable to condescend but I am not the one who can blend. Shawn Colvin was inspired to write the lyrics of 'Sunny Came Home' by the painting she had chosen for the album cover, which shows a woman with a lit match in her hand. It's time for a few small repairs she said Sunny came home with a vengeance She says days go by I don't know why I'm walking on a wire ![]() Shawn Colvin was inspired to write the lyrics of Sunny Came Home by the. Sunny came home with a list of names She didn't believe in transcendence Sunny Came Home is a folk-rock song by American musician Shawn Colvin. 'I close my eyes and fly out of my mind Into the fire' is one such repulse by which to hush the reality, the inevitable end called death is summoned. This verse also explains the process of captivating thoughts into a chain of grieving repulses. But at the end of the day you know you came home with a mission to silence your apprehensions. On one such day, walking back home is not the same as everyday, you walk home with dry tears and heavy heart, you walk home pretending to be unpretentious so as to analyse a book and box of tools. While everything around you is falling apart and fading you into a dim source of light, the flickers from this light are dispersed and tangled all along with your memories and the places you've been to witness the nothingness that today made your throat so heavy. I close my eyes and fly out of my mind Into the fireįor me, I think the meaning of this verse is way more deeper than how simply it's portrayed. She says days go by I'm hypnotized I'm walking on a wire She opened a book and a box of tools Sunny came home with a mission Sunny came home to her favorite room Sunny sat down in the kitchen We all have those instances in life where we'd listen to the right song at the right time and I heard this song that obliged my refuted heart to get in-sink with it's lyrics so meticulously that my surreal temper was instantly cured. So I went to my room for an excuse to sit and overthink and plugged in my earphones. And there again, the weather decided not to act on my favour. I was advised that I should go on a walk and listen to some good music. ‘Sunny Came Home’ was a 1998 Grammy Award winner for Song of the Year as well Record of the Year and some of you may remember that her presentation was interrupted by the rapper, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, who protested that Puff Daddy beat his group Wu-Tan Clan for best rap album that year.I remember the first time I heard this song, I was not in my best possible mood. From the album ‘A Few Small Repairs’, it’s one of a number of tracks that fall into the category of story songs and the jaunty melody belies the dark lyrics (which Colvin has referred to as a “murder ballad”) and you have to wonder how many listeners truly listened to or understood the words behind this effort. ![]() Probably the song she is most famous for is ‘Sunny Came Home’, a tale of an inmate released back into the world but who returned home with only vengeance on her mind as she proceeds to burn down the homes of her enemies. Last week’s chain featured Sam Outlaw, who was christened Sam Morgan, and hails from Aberdeen, South Dakota, a state which is also the birthplace of singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin who was born some 250 miles further south in the town of Vermillion.
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