Lyric discussion by SamanthaSecretAgent 

Cover art for Grass lyrics by Animal Collective

cathaya is an idiot i'm pretty sure. And i think this song is about a couple of friends. The guy wants to be with her but is pretty sure she just wants to be friends. Then they have sex one night, and they start a relationship. He gives up on dealing with life because if he has her then that's all he needs. That's the line about sleeping patterns, i believe. Then things seem to be progressing, but all of a sudden he thinks it all changed. The apple eating is a reference to adam and eve and so he thought they were made for each other but he's wondering if that all just went away. He asks her to be sure she's happy outside of their sexual relationship [the summer places] because lots of people can be happy during a happy time, but if you're supposed to be together then you can make bad times a happy time as well. Like most people enjoy summer because its sunny and happy, but when that's gone, if you're in the middle of a life you truly enjoy, you won't enjoy it only when the world around you seems good. So now he's wondering if its all about the sex and the hair and touching is apparently on the girl. And so she would be happy about that kind of sexual intimacy, but when he asks if they want to see each other even though they don't need to see each other, it is about being together when they don't have sexual urges. That's what the often means. He wants to have a real relationship, but she is seemingly only happy because of the sexual relationship, and he wants to ask her if she has more feelings for her beyond that, so the song is a question posed to her. And the grass for the title probably is the same euphamism as the hair that she would be happy if he touched her there.

My guess.