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Coconut

by Jon Driver

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"Perhaps more than any other song that I’ve heard lately and certainly more so than anything that’s graced my ear recently, 'Coconut' by Jon Driver is an incredibly self-referential, self-aware track. On a superficial level, the track tells the story of itself, how it’s written, why it’s written, a snapshot of an artist trying to freeze time. Pulling back some, there is a meta-commentary here on the relationship between art and artist, mainly on the time that we all wish we had to spend with and working on the things that we truly love, whether that’s writing a song, or in the case of Driver here, spending time with his wife.

Stripping away the basic, insular conceit of the inward facing monologue, this is a track that digs especially deep into a subject as timeless as it gets, the sort of poetry that would make Shakespeare blush with pride. Everyone and anyone can appreciate juggling the complexities of life with a broader spiritual connection to what you love, and Driver really nails it.

The video here adds yet another layer to the stripping down of the song, showing Driver performing the constituent bits of the track on each instrument. It’s nice to see him working with the instrumentation he has, which for gearheads is certainly indicative of well-within-your means; these aren’t fancy pieces of equipment, but they make damn fine sounding music. To that end, Driver carefully balances what could be a trite emo number, at least at first blush, with a deeper humanity, very much like the Dismemberment Plan at the absolute peak of their game, a post-post punk bluster as filtered through indie-pop sensibilities, and it really works."

––Syd Bishop, never-nervous.com

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This is how I’ll start
In 6/8 it’s hard for me
Playing this beat on the drums

Banging the toms
My timing’s not as strong
But it’s satisfying and its fun

I don’t usually find myself
Using compound time when I’m
Writing so I did for this song

But I did not use it for long


I’d like to make my living
Spend the week days creating
Original music and that hard

I lack a proper strategy
Of how to gain a following
But I thought youtube could play a big part

I’ll use
Patreon and sponsorships should come
Once I gain more subscriptions
But I’m getting ahead of myself

I need to put the work in now
Two videos every month is how
I’ll start out that’s the most that I felt
I could do at the moment hey


Right now my job involves working
At nights and almost all weekends
It’s not a bad job but it’s gotten old

I got off work last weekend
Felt like a normal guy again
Got to be on the same schedule

As my wife and man, I want so badly
For it to be that way frequently
Missing nights with my wife has been tough

Man, that would really be the life
Work on my music 9 to 5
Then spend evenings with my one true love
She’s my coconut C’mon


This video won’t get many views
Just how it goes, but still I’d choose
To make this over anything else

And yeah, I’ll do covers soon as well
But my hope is that someday I’ll
Be known for music I wrote myself

Singing
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la

Man, that would really be the life
Work on my music 9 to 5
Spend every night with my one true love

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released March 19, 2018

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Jon Driver Louisville, Kentucky

Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, home recordist––Jon Driver writes eclectic folk songs with straightforward, conversational lyrics.

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