The Meaning of "Green" by Cavetown | Lyrics and Music Video Explained 

"Cavetown is still alive, he didn't get eaten by a giant turtle in the woods" Imagine someone hearing that with no context

Absolutely love cavetown, such a unique writer🍋

Thanks for helping my procrastinate on my last minute homework rush

Hey, their relationship might've just been a friendship, since he said he was on the aromantic spectrum. Maybe he didn't know back then, lol I don't know.

I love Cavetown! I'm seeing him in concert this summer

You should explain Dear or Juliet or Boys Will Be Bugs by cavetown

i was doing late night homework (yk how we kids procrastinate) and then i see this . i got super super happy so thank you for making my night but now i’m distracting from homework 😂 the things you do , nah but i love cavetown so you explaining green (bc i didn’t understand it at all) is just a big YAY , you know ?

If anyone see's this... Hi🙃

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Cavetown quickly became one of my favorites after hearing Green for the first time, so this upload makes me very happy.

This is my theory, the song is called “Green” and the girl, supposedly gets with a guy wearing blue, a lyric says “Green and blue to match your pictures” this probably meant she found another person. Also in one part he says “take care my shirt, warm and red” red and green are the opposite, and when you mix the colors, you get brown. But green and blue go together more, this is just a theory and I’m not sure if it’s true.

Im a huge rock n roll fan. I just grew up listening to this stuff. // tøp, billie eilish and gaga are other artists i like a lot and r not rock, but lately I’ve been in L O V E with simple music? Just real emotion, voice and guitar/ukulele... cavetown is very special like you said. I’m in love with it.

Finally! More from my favorite artist!

I love cave town, enough said

the juice represents the love they put into one another. ig at the end of the music video when he is seen drinking his old juice, just before the turtle eats him, symbolizes that if he loves only himself, his gonna die alone

AHHH thank you for introducing me to more incredible music!! I get more excited about videos on artists I don't know so I can expand my music library! Nicely done, Prof!

Minor point; when lemon runs off into the woods and is killed, they don't just run off. The last thing they did was turn back and fill a jar with their own juice. They didn't just die, they died after realising they'd messed up and had to fix it.

Oh my gosh I just found out about Cavetown and I love his music already, and isn't it a coincidence that you just happened to make a video about his video :D

oh! Haha! This song always reminded me of my best friend back in the 5th grade (we were kinda like a color duo my favorite color is yellow and his is green he also ironically liked turtles) and i’m pretty sure he had a huge crush on me back then but I like girls so I only ever thought of him as my friend. He was an amazing one as well! I didn’t have a best friend as a kid I was mostly the third wheel in my friendships but for that one year I was his best friend and he was mine. Nobody has ever treated me with as much respect as he did. I felt listened to and not invisible when I was around him and now that I think about it I didn’t do that much for him back. One day on the bus he told me he was moving to a new house and wouldn’t go to the same school as me anymore. I was heartbroken beyond belief... I finally had my first ever best friend and didn’t even get to know him for more then a year. So I probably made the worst decision of my life instead of talking and hanging out with him more I distanced myself from him and made up lies whenever he wanted to hang out. It’s like I would rather read a book and be by myself then spend time with my friend and then to make it worse I made up lies about it... It’s been years since i’ve last seen him and the guilt from it still haunts me today the day right after he left I sank into a deep depression that i’m still going through today. I really do hope he’s doing well he deserves so much more then a shitty friend like me...

I'm so happy to have another Cavetown video from you. It was your first video on him that had me found you. Glad we both love him the same amount

i.love.cavetown!!~ ThaNk yOu!!~

been listening to cavetown more recently and now you post this nice never realised lemons were onions

Hey cliff. I would like to recommend to you an AMAZING artist you should definitely check out. His name is Nico Collins and he has some great music with some deep lyrics. He’s not very popular but hey, a good lyric is a good lyric.

ive been waiting for you to do cavetown for so long omg thank u

i’m so glad you are giving cavetown more attention. he’s an amazing artist and i hope you guys do a collab video someday!

I also think that the tortoise resembles his guilt and how it’s eating him alive.

Yes!! I've been waiting for another Cavetown explanation.

I love this song so much! I watched the music video the morning after it was released before going to classes, and I basically started my day crying over a lemon... Oh well! I guess it just goes to show how powerful this song and video are, and how much they mean to me. :)

Seriously, I love your channel and the lyrics/artists you've introduced me to (NF, Florence +the Machine, now THIS etc.) You always focus on really deep and meaningful work, unpacking it in a really fun, thoughtful, and unique way. Just amazing content man :)

I'm a big Cavetown-fan and love "Green" (: Good video

YESSS I love this song and I just knew you were going to make this explanation thank you

Rob is phenomenal man. U know an artist is good when u can enjoy just about every song he puts out.

I love green by cavetown😭 it my crying song any time o hear it or even hear someone sing the lyrics I cry because I resonate with it so much. Ah

Please explain Green Day songs too! If you do, I'll gift 50 chariots to the Unicorn King! 🙏

I'm so happy you're doing something for Robbie! Haha, I showed my friends the music video and they all cried.

When the lemon and lime have a quark in them and "give each other juice" like you said, I think it has to do a lot of pooring into someone else. Now let me explain what I mean. I am a Christian and as a Christian we believe it's good to find a friend that can "poor" into you and you can "poor" into them equally. This basically means, you and a friend help each other out equally and it's not where one friend is only taking from the other. They are both giving and taking equally, giving their relationship an equal balance and therefore making it into a healthy relationship. So when I saw the green music video I thought of this and it works out perfectly. The lime loves the lemon but the lime keeps taking instead of giving as well which causes pain and and unhealthy relationship. This is my take on it!

great video!! robin is one of, if not my favorite artist of all time, and i love what you said about him and his lyrics :)

I think that this song is so special. Cavetown admits his mistakes and takes responsibility for what he did. He's not ashamed to share his experience and he made a beautiful piece of art from it. It's a beautiful apology and you can see that he's really sorry and he understands his mistakes.

Can’t believe you did this, I’m so happy!!

I love cavetown

the lemon and the lime were in love bro man bro

I just watched this video a few days ago and I loved it the video was so unique and well done nice video

I literally cry every time he says that he just wants her to be happy or just wishing her the best cause fml that's beautiful

THANKK YOUUU

yes! cavetown! his music is so calming i love it

Saw cavetown last weekend live. AMAZIN

yes my baby Cavetown

First! Also, I LOVE Cavetown!!!

Yaaay im glad You did Cavetown!!! I love him!!

green is my favourite cavetown song! 💚

usually it’s how sour a lemon is that makes me cry but the Green music video? the sweetness of the lemon made me cry this time

cavetown also said he uses lyrics such as "grinding up rocks with your molars" as a visual representation or an image to put in your head to show a feeling. it makes people cringe to think of biting or grinding down on rocks

YES CLIFFORD!!!

We love cavetown 💛 More cavetown please

I know I cried when I saw the music video... The song itself is bittersweet, and the music video captured that very very well.

OMFG OMFG THANKS YOU I LOVE CAVETOWN SO MUCH

Green is my favourite song

Thank you for the kind words about our music vid man! What's wrong with a killer turtle, huh

I will never look at this song the same again

Have u considered analyzing cavetown's song boys will be bugs? Im always down for more cavetown

*yes* thank you

Wow...... Thats deep

I definitely cried...

11/10 sweetest song

Please do one on Idea of her by Cavetown!

Nice 👌

DANG RIGHT CAVETOWN IS AMAZING WOOHOO

i rarely get feels for thigns and with the lemon, lime and orange, oh my it gave me the feels so bad i have a whole new appreciation for lemons limes and oranges,

It's time to cry

there's one scene the lemon tried to gv the lime some juice, but before that he got eaten by the turtle.

Can this still be a breakup song if the break up was 3 years ago and she doesnt want anything to do with me?

CAVETOWN CAN RAPPPP

I like the thought behind this awsome song not a friend of this kind of genre but i thin cavetown is a relly interessting artist

Give us more of this prodigy.

Here before 1080p

Can u please do 888 by cavetown

love cavetown and i think you should listen to eden, he's really good

Do more cavetown plz

But Mr pop song, what is your opinion on what he, cavetown, said about tøp specially Tyler??!

what if the turtle in the woods is his guilt, eating away at him in a sense

HAHSHDHAHS CAVETOWN!! his lyrics are just so hsvskaldh if i could put it into words. oh wow i love him so much.

You should do fool by cavetown

i think you should analyze banana bread next!

I cried😭

Can you explain the music video/lyrics to The Great New Depression by The Moth & the Flame?

please do devil town next it is my absolute favourite song by cavetown

can you give some explanations about Alec Benjamin song?

I thought Robbie was aro so is the girl just a rly good friend?

The ship has sailed I-

‘The kitchen’ means he went for the knife……🔪

CAVEETOWWWNN

pls do fool

first time i cried over a lemon

I didn't expect myself to be here, because a girl fave song...Ahhh

What about telescope by cavetown

How come you listen to exactly the same amazing musicians as me

why do u only do the one where he already explained it

I thought that the lemon died but came back as a new seed right?

I thought lemon leaves lime because lemon realyse that lemon has been treating lime badly, i think idk

Please do a song from animal kingdom