
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. PO Box, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Guam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S.“Sunny Came Home” was a smash hit.
