Lyric discussion by TheSquirrel 

Cover art for The Sun lyrics by Portugal. The Man

I really wonder what he means by "slip on down from that sun, to climb down to earth"

i think he's talking about the sun's rays, the light that bathes the earth coming from the sun to earth's surface. life needs light to survive, to live and thrive, and so do we (humans). we are just lovers of the light that gives us life.

I think he might be referring to letting go of the "ego". John is including everyone in his lyrics, so in other words he is telling his listener to come down from that "high pedestal" to join the rest of us, meaning the world, because we come from the same ground. Therefore we are all just lovers.

its a metaphor In which he compares the sun( something great and big), to our egos,which give us the illusion of self significance. by telling us to climb down to earth, he is telling us to come down to the conclusion that we are all creates capable of loving each other living in one home, earth. born and living off from things given by the earth, just like all the others.