I used to hate the sun
because it shone on everything I'd done
Made me feel
that all that I had done
was overfill the ashtray of my life
All my achievements in days of yore
range from pathetic to piss-poor
but all that's gonna change
Because here comes
sunrise
Yeah, here's your
sunrise
I used to hide from the sun
tried to live my whole life underground
Why'd you have to rise and ruin all my fun?
Just turned over
closed the curtains on the day
But here comes
sunrise
Yeah, here's your
sunrise
When you've been awake all night long
and you feel like crashing out at dawn
But you've been awake all night
so why should you crash out at dawn?
They say the darkest hour is just before the dawn, don't they? I don't know if it's true, but they say it. I always hate it when you've been at an all-night party and then suddenly the sun starts coming up and you think, 'Why didn't I go home an hour ago?'. You feel unnatural because every other creature's just waking up and the birds start doing the dawn chorus and you feel out of step with nature. So on a simple level the song's just about trying to react to the sunrise in a better way and not to screw things up for yourself.