The Naked And Famous Lyrics

    ------ About the song The Sun performed by The Naked And Famous

I first heard this song because it's featured in bouldering (rock climbing) video of the same name as the title of this review. It's used in a part of the film to bring up the feeling of tension and anxiety as these climbers scale near-impossible highball problems... but alas this has nothing to do with what the song is about (but still, watch the film if you get the chance, it's epic).

Collectively this song is about feeling numb and running from regrets. I think the first stanza is clearly describing the feeling of the morning after blacking out the night before: What the hell have I done, I don't remember, a thing. We all question our choices in 20/20 hindsight because our psychology has a tendency to focus on "what if?" We all feel embarrasment at some of our actions, and we can never really get them back. So the metaphor of the Sun represents these massive regrets being unavoidable (the Sun is also quite annoying when you're hungover), and they freeze us, we feel numb, not sure what to do... so we run. They keep coming. We don't know how to face them. So we run.