COLVIN: Now, that is actually somewhat dramatic, really, because I remember very vividly that I was going to play a gig in the summer of 2004 at the Salt Lake City Botanical Gardens. SEABROOK: Tell me about that moment that you started to write Summer Dress. Depression isn't that uncommon, and I've been dealing with that for a long, long time. I mean if you survive them, you know, and I think it's - it's just life. Is there an upside to these sort of dark, dark passages? SEABROOK: You've been through so many things in the last, you know, few years - the depression, divorce, all of these things. Although I have to admit after every record I kind of give it a rest for a while. How did you start again? Three years is a long time. Before we ask you to play your guitar, though, I want to know what happened. SEABROOK: It's so great to have you in studio, and you have a beautiful guitar on your lap. Colvin is on tour with her new album, These Four Walls, and she joins us in Studio 3A here with her guitar. But what brought her back from a creative dry spell? Ms. ![]() She's quit drinking, ended a marriage, and tackled depression. She's quit a lot of things over her career of 25 plus years. SHAWN COLVIN (Singer/songwriter): (Singing) Sunny came home to her favorite room. The last and concluding verse fades off in the melody of surroundings and musings which is all that's left.Singer/songwriter Shawn Colvin is best known for her 1998 Grammy Award winning hit, Sunny Came Home. 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. I am incapable to condescend but I am not the one who can blend. 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 Sunny came home with a list of names She didn't believe in transcendence '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. I remember the first time I heard this song, I was not in my best possible mood.
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