Lyrics sunny came home shawn colvin7/19/2023 ![]() But- "She opened a book/and a box of tools/Sunny came home/with a mission." Instead of cooking or cleaning, Sunny started reading a book to be educated, and opened a box of tools to do hard, dirty labor with! What? That's supposed to be a man's job! Or at least it was! She cam ehome with a mission. A woman's place is in the kitchen-this is where she's at "home"-cooking meals and clenaing. "Sunny came home/to her favorite room/Sunny sat down/in the kitchen." Sunny's favorite room is the kitchen, or at least it's supposed to be. ![]() There are a lot of symbols and figurative language in the song. ![]() The whole song is one giant metaphor in that sense, and all because the actions Sunny do represent something symbolic. Sunny is a woman who represents sexism-the good and the bad. The song is about sexism, and women's place in society. However, I can sue you if you use this analysis and say it's your exact interpretation. By the way, this is my own interpretation, and it's not official or anything, so you can't sue me if Shawn Colvin says that's not what the song is about. However, I never fully thought about the idea until I wrote this analysis. But when I really thoguht about the words, and started writing, I got a totally different idea, which had vaguely been in the back of my mind every time I listened to the song. I think many people think it's about a crazy pyromaniac. "Sunny Came Home" could be interpreted in many different ways. Anyway, enough blabbering, if you like the song, you probably skipped this introduction, anyway. I actually think it's about both, on two different levels, and sort of combined. Generally it's regarded as being about insane pyromaniacs (actually I kinda like that idea, heh, heh!), but it made me think of sexism and discrimination. I got a very different idea from Shawn Colvin's hit than I think most people did. I highly reccomend reading the analysis to anyone who likes this song. We were just in a great space.Keeping to my promise, I wrote my ananlysis of the song soon after I put up the lyrics. There was a real sense of ease and freedom and no rules. We’re not going to worry about the radio. ![]() John and I were like, what the hell, we’re just going to make a record we like and turn it in. There were a couple things on those previous records where I made concessions in the production and stuff like that. We didn’t think we were not pop or worthy, but in the previous three records there’d been attempts by the record company to put out singles and cross our fingers and hope they went somewhere, and they didn’t. When we made that record, we’d kind of written off the idea of having radio-friendly songs. In the 11th hour, “Sunny Came Home” was really barely there-in fact I think I had it as ‘Jimmy Came Home’ at one point before I’d written the lyric to “The Facts about Jimmy” I looked at this cover and I thought, you need to write a story about this woman on the cover who’s got a lit match and a big fire in the background. I just liked Julie Speed’s work and I really wanted something different rather than a photo. The inspiration behind that story came from the painting that I chose to be on the cover of the record.
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