Some Nights

Many of the lyrics on Fun's second album, Some Nights, are about frontman Nate Ruess' family. For instance, on this title track he sings: My heart is breaking for my sister and the con that she called love But when I look into my nephew's eyes Man you wouldn't believe the most amazing things that can come from some terrible nights Ruess explained to Mesfin Fekadu of The Associated Press: "I'm always thinking about, 'Who am I and why did I do something like that?' And I think then it harkens back to my family, and I have such a strong tie to them and it's always therapeutic to sing about them."

Fun listened a lot to Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy when they were writing for the Some Nights album. So influenced were they by its sound and scope, they hired that record's co-producer, Jeff Bhasker, to produce Some Nights.

Fun named their album after this track because they feel it best represents not only their entire record, but also where they were as a band. "I think that the song 'Some Nights' just kind of sums up who we are as a band, and while it's über-personal, I think it gives people a lot of stuff to relate to," Ruess told MTV News. "It's not a love song; it's a song about being an underdog and trying to figure out where you fall into that situation."