This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
It's really true how nothin matters
No mad, mad world and no mad hatters
No one's pitchin cause their ain't no batters
In coconut grove
Don't bother door
Theirs no one comin
The oceans roar, were double drummin
Of many silly thoughts and silly ways
The ocean breeze has cooled my mind
The salty days are her's and mine
Just to do what we wanna
Tonight we'll find a dune that's our
And softly she will speak the stars
Until sun-up
It's all from havin' someone knowin'
Just which way your head is blowin'
Who's always warm like in the mornin'
In Coconut Grove
No mad, mad world and no mad hatters
No one's pitchin cause their ain't no batters
In coconut grove
Don't bother door
Theirs no one comin
The oceans roar, were double drummin
Of many silly thoughts and silly ways
The ocean breeze has cooled my mind
The salty days are her's and mine
Just to do what we wanna
Tonight we'll find a dune that's our
And softly she will speak the stars
Until sun-up
It's all from havin' someone knowin'
Just which way your head is blowin'
Who's always warm like in the mornin'
In Coconut Grove
Lyrics submitted by Madcappunk, edited by giantsquid
Coconut Grove Lyrics as written by Zal Yanovsky John Benson Sebastian
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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