In an interview with SongFacts, lead singer Brad Arnold spoke about the song's meaning:"'Away from the Sun' is just about those days.

[2] The video begins with a young boy (played by Brad Arnold's nephew)[1] attempting to climb a mountain with boulders strapped to his ankles with ropes.

Most of them laugh at him, with the exception of one girl who silently stares with a blank expression on her face.

The boy then sees a woman dressed in white ahead of him, but the man from earlier in the video reappears and punches him down to the base of the mountain.

As he reflects on the events that had transpired, the sun begins to rise over the mountain range on the horizon.

The scene cuts to the boy climbing the mountain from afar before the sunlight consumes the screen and the video ends.