I don’t really go as far as to think she murdered anybody but she Eradicated the house she shared with him ( vengeance )which is indicative of totally erasing any remnant of the life and intimacy and bond they shared. She gathered her kids together and left her pretentious world to burn. She Selected a windy night to hopefully produce more flame to the fire. Abusive men don’t want anybody in their things ) she needed the tools to make it appear like an electrical fire, Possible faulty wiring. She brought her tools home(Probably because he kept his locked up. She obviously spent a lot of time planning her escape with the children and wrote down names addresses and phone numbers that she could get in touch with for help after the deed was done. She would escape with her children wanna warm and windy day. Her need to escape this painful world What take much planning. Most abusive and controlling husband don’t allow their wives to keep money, so she probably couldn’t hire an attorney to divorce him. In her time away, she rehash plans in her head. She was probably burdened with many chores and the care of her family and possibly a job outside the home. She did her best to keep her sorrow a secret and maintain sunny persona. She spent a lot of years holding it together and in her times of solitude she probably thought about ways to escape or leave but never had the strength or courage to put a plan into action. I suspect that he was unfaithful and Sunny was abused by her husband either emotionally or physically. Though her life started to Fray due to the behavior of her husband, she maintained her composure in society.

I always have assumed that this song is about an attractive, positive woman who tried to maintain her sanity and dignity by doing what was expected of every woman in society. She eventually burns down the house while the song ends with the narrator noting that this woman is getting ready to start a new and much better life having burnt all the things that represent her past. In the bridge, she tells the children to leave the house and wear a sweater, signifying the arson Sunny is about to commit. As seen in the chorus and second verses, Sunny here is not happy about her current life, blames it on the people and events in her past and wants to leave it all behind by destroying it all. She talks about how this woman returns to her house seeking to carry out a premeditated plan of escape. The narrator in this track talks about a woman named Sunny who seems to be frustrated and still living in pain because of the people and things that took place in her past. In addition to co-writing credits, Leventhal also receives production credits on this track. She worked with multiple Grammy-winning songwriter and producer John Leventhal to compose the song.

It is the second single from Colvin’s fourth album, which she titled “A Few Small Repairs”. “Sunny Came Home” was released on June 24th, 1997. In Britain, it also performed relatively well, reaching number 27 there. It also performed likewise on Canada’s Adult Contemporary chart. And generally speaking, it charted in seven different countries. was protesting the fact that his crew did not win an award (rather losing to Puff Daddy) earlier in the evening.īut speaking of the song itself, it also topped Billboard’s Adult Contemporary and Adult Top 40 charts. These awards are:Īnd during Shawn Colvin’s acceptance of the latter award, she was famously interrupted by the late O.D.B. It actually took home two coveted coveted awards at the 1998 Grammys.

Song sunny came home