In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
I was lying on the grass of Sunday morning of last week
Indulging in my self-defeat
My mind was thugged, all laced and bugged, all twisted, wrong and beat
A comfortable three feet deep
Now the fuzzy stare from not being there on a confusing morning week
Impaired my tribal lunar speak
And of course you can't become if you only say what you would have done
So I missed a million miles of fun
I know it's up for me
(If you steal my sunshine)
Making sure I'm not in too deep
(If you steal my sunshine)
Keeping versed and on my feet
(If you steal my sunshine)
I was frying on the bench slide in the park across the street
L-A-T-E-R that week
My sticky paws were into making straws out of big fat slurpy treats
An incredible eight-foot heap
Now the funny glare to pay a gleaming tare in a staring under heat
Involved an under usual feat
And I'm not only among but I invite who I want to come
So I missed a million miles of fun
I know it's up for me
(If you steal my sunshine)
Making sure I'm not in too deep
(If you steal my sunshine)
Keeping versed and on my feet
(If you steal my sunshine)
I know it's done for me
(If you steal my sunshine)
Not some and hard to see
(If you steal my sunshine)
Keeping dumb and built to beat
(If you steal my sunshine)
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
Indulging in my self-defeat
My mind was thugged, all laced and bugged, all twisted, wrong and beat
A comfortable three feet deep
Now the fuzzy stare from not being there on a confusing morning week
Impaired my tribal lunar speak
And of course you can't become if you only say what you would have done
So I missed a million miles of fun
I know it's up for me
(If you steal my sunshine)
Making sure I'm not in too deep
(If you steal my sunshine)
Keeping versed and on my feet
(If you steal my sunshine)
I was frying on the bench slide in the park across the street
L-A-T-E-R that week
My sticky paws were into making straws out of big fat slurpy treats
An incredible eight-foot heap
Now the funny glare to pay a gleaming tare in a staring under heat
Involved an under usual feat
And I'm not only among but I invite who I want to come
So I missed a million miles of fun
I know it's up for me
(If you steal my sunshine)
Making sure I'm not in too deep
(If you steal my sunshine)
Keeping versed and on my feet
(If you steal my sunshine)
I know it's done for me
(If you steal my sunshine)
Not some and hard to see
(If you steal my sunshine)
Keeping dumb and built to beat
(If you steal my sunshine)
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
My sunshine, if you steal my sunshine
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@disintre Pretty awesome breakdown and theorizing. Thanks. That song had always seemed like gibberish to me.
@disintre your replying to a decade old comment who knows if this dudes even still alive
@disintre Geez. You skipped the entire song just to fulfill your own indulgence.
"Shar and I had this killer fight, and she totally wasn't speaking to me," Costanzo explained. "I didn't know what to say to her to fix things, and I was completely bummed, so I just went home and wrote that song. It's about me trying to tell her how much I need her around — she's my sunshine," he said.chartattack.com/damn/1999/19990924.html
I believe it is a disquisition on Canadian identity.
You folks have dirty minds!
It's a song about being depressed/upset....and someone making you more depressed.
"Stealing my sunshine" means taking away the happiness.
I agree with you. I always thought the verse "Steal my sunshine" was what haters do to bring you down, but you refuse to let them bring you down. After reading the lyrics I think its about people you love bringing you down. You want to be there for them but you don't want them to steal your sunshine to wallowing in their misery. Possible the drug use is true too. Mess with your brain and you mess with your happy seratonins levels.
Um, did anyone ever think that maybe this song is about being unhappy because of someone else? 'Cause if you listen really really closely in the beginning of the song, you'll hear them saying things like "I wonder why him/her is so down." Some songs don't have double meanings, but hell, let's be like everyone else and think that every song is about sex and drugs, shall we?
sunshine=virginity... she was contemplating whether to give it up and the speaking parts are of her love interest's friends who are wondering if "karen" and her love interest commited this act my opinion the verses are of what events took place and how the singers felt afterwards
Well that doesn't explain all of it, even if they are on drugs. What's with all the speaking parts in between that aren't written here? I think she's pregnant, and they're being total jackasses about it and just laughing.
Tim: hey Matt...<br /> Matt: Yeah Tim?<br /> TIm: Hey you talked to Marc lately?<br /> Matt: Uh..haven't really talked to him but..he looks pretty uh..down.<br /> Tim: He looks pretty uh..down? (while laughing)<br /> Matt: Yeah well maybe we should cheer him up then<br /> Tim: What do you uh..suppose we should do?<br /> Matt: Well does he like butter tarts?
I agreeee. I first heard this song when I was about 12, and I always thought she was pregnant.
I think the drug theory might be right, except I think they might have just been smoking crack when they "wrote" it. I suspect this is just the way one talks after a 2 week crack bender and/or if one is from Canada.
Yeah, I'm changing what I said. Definately about drugs.
Actually, does anyone remember the videoclip for it? I do, and it showed the girl (Sharon..or Karen..whatever) lying on the grass...and then later on in the song it shows her and Mark together, and she is quite obviously pregnant. The lines "So i missed a million miles of fun", could be showing this, that they got pregnant at a young age and werent able to experience everything the rest of their friends did, such as late nite parties etc