Southern Sun Lyrics

Lyric discussion by lolo2 

Cover art for Southern Sun lyrics by Boy & Bear

A boy fell madly in love with a girl one fateful night.. Emotions basically flooded into him, and now that the moment is over, the only way he can relive it is by dreaming.

It was a simple, beautiful way that he fell in love. There was no commotion around, nothingness, just him laying in the night sky. His mind was stretched out in the sense that he finally opened up his mind to love for one of the first times. He was letting himself feel more so than he ever had before. It is a holy night because he is feeling giving into feeling and loving and other things that scare humanity to the core.

He is ready to start life for real, he is ready to start loving every inch of this girl that helped him wake up. He is ready to start something. He cannot wait forever, because his feeling is so strong and he wants it so bad. Maybe she is not quite ready, maybe she is taken.

He realized life is not crazy long (kettle gun reference). He spent time in the real world (16 days under the Southern Sun), the hottest warmest sun out there. There were challenges in the world (Southern Sun) and he saw a lot of things that made him grow up. He wouldn't have minded to lose his mind out there, forget some of the things he saw, maybe even forget about this girl he cannot seem to fall out of love with. He is a man now and he is trying to prove that to her, but he is not sure f she can realize that he has grown up. And he has not grown up in a bad way, but actually a good way. He has become noble and wiser.

He is ready to get his love back again. He is proving he is ready now. The waves of feeling and love have rushed back into his heart and nothing can stop them. His time out in the world made him realize that he really did love this girl as a boy and he still does. He has been waiting forever for her and he will not let her get away, no matter what.

When he was young, he always thought about the possibility of living the fast lifestyle. Of fame and fortune and rock n' roll. And now that he is older now he is still ready to live that fast paced lifestyle, but maybe not in the same sense he imagined as a kid. He is an arrow in a bow, ready to fly out and shoot out into the world. This girl he loves is not sure if he is genuine, but he is telling her deep down she knows how much he loves her, how he would live just to be with her and he is ready to start now, he is not ready to waste a precious second.

He repeats what he said to her years ago, how he has been ready for he and he cannot wait until he dies because his love and passion for her are inside of him so alive and ready to grow. There is a sweet irony to his words "I'm not gonna wait til the end of me", because in a way it seems like he would wait forever for this girl. He can never end if he loves her, because she makes him feel so alive and real, even when she is not with him.

I was afraid that's what it meant......:)