"She didn’t believe in transcendence" suggested she wasn't taking the high road and moving on. The list of names suggested there was more than just an abusive partner she wanted revenge on. Was it a phone book? Diary? Electrical repair manual? A matchbook? Were the tools repair tools for the oven she was going to "repair" by breaking? Were they metaphorical tools? But the mission was pretty clear: burn this $#!+ to the ground. The details change depending on what the book and tools were. The kitchen was her favorite room because either she felt like she was in control there or she had attachments to it as the heart of the home. My take back then was that it was that Sunny was a victim of domestic abuse that burned down her house (or maybe more) on a dry and windy day (or night). She has referred to it as a "murder ballad." She said she tapped into her own sense of anger and vengeance when burning the paraphernalia of a broken relationship to write this story about a fictional woman named Sunny who commits arson. When she was struggling to come up with lyrics for the melody, she was inspired by the painting she'd already chosen for the album cover. She purposefully didn't explain the book or the tools. Whether you feel a sense of despair or catharsis or something else depends on your own feelings and experiences. It's like a tarot card in the way that the meaning changes depending on the listener. Shawn Colvin never gave us a specific meaning. Or perhaps she really is crazy and guilty of the past crime (whether she is actually consciously aware of it or not) and is now back to take out the town people who got her sent away and locked up. Perhaps it was an arson that killed her family when she was young and now she has come back as an adult to sit in their burnt-out kitchen plotting her revenge. Perhaps they got her institutionalised by pinning a fatal arson on her and now she's returned to ruin/kill them via the same method of arson they had accused her of. Strike a match, light the sky, world is burning down, dry is good wind is better etc.). time for a few small repairs, came home with a mission etc.) by burning them all down, probably in their homes (ie. She is going to fix it all, as in she's going to right the past wrongs done to her (ie. She has their names and will not rise above her bitterness and need for vengeance (ie. Ophelia Maples 31w Ssuna I've always interpreted the song as Sunny came home to her hometown to take revenge on all the people who did her wrong and got her sent away (maybe to an asylum, hence her unsound mental state). Shawn's acceptance speech for Song of the Year was interrupted when rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard went on stage in protest of Wu Tang Clan's not winning Best Rap Album. Sunny Came Home won 2 Grammies in 1998 for Record and Song of the Year The song was also nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal. The single helped Shawn's album A Few Small Repairs reach the top 40 on the Billboard 200 and the album eventually reached platinum status. To date it is her only appearance on the Hot 100. The song also reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary and the Hot Adult Contemporary charts. It was Shawn's breakthrough mainstream single peaking at #2 on the Pop Chart, and #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997. Read Full Bio Sunny Came Home was the 2nd single from Shawn Colvin's album A Few Small Repairs. Sunny Came Home was the 2nd single from Shawn Colvin's album A Few Small Repairs.
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