Lyric Analysis and Timing

 The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
 

The taxman's taken all my dough (0:19)

And left me in my stately home (0:23)

Lazing on a sunny afternoon (0:27)

And I can't sail my yacht (0:31)

He's taken everything I've got (0:35)

All I've got's this sunny afternoon (0:40)

 

Potencial wealthy man is invovled. Wealthy due to

 the fact that he has a yacht, a stereotype

 that anyone who is rich has a yacht. This as well

 as a stately home, a grand english manor. 

Describing that someone has gotten into trouble with

 income taxand the authorities have taken his things away.

 Feeling sorry for himself on a sunny afternoon.

 

Save me, save me
Save me from this squeeze (0:50)
I've got a big fat momma trying to break me (0:57)

And I love to live so pleasantly (1:02)
Live this life of luxury (1:06)
Lazing on a sunny afternoon (1:14)
In the summertime, in the summertime, in the summertime (1:24)

 

This is a life that this person enjoys to live and endulge

 in so they desires to have it back again.

He also seems to go off into a rant of how their life i

sn't at all that good outside of their wealth due to

his mother. Perhaps he wanted to escape a life with his mother.

They refer to the summer in a way of longing.

Summer usually holds goods

memories rather than having the opposite effect.

 

My girlfriend's run off with my car (1:30)
And gone back to her ma and pa (1:33)
Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty (1:38)

Now I'm sitting here (1:41)
Sipping at my ice cold beer (1:45)
Lazing on a sunny afternoon (1:50)

The girlfriend has left, adding to the list
of tragidies that is this persons life. The girlfriend
 is telling lies about the person about abuse
to make an excuse for leaving him due
 to the fact that he has lost all his money she bailed.

 

Help me, help me, help me sail away (1:59)
Well give me two good reasons (2:03)
Why I ought to stay (2:07)

'Cause I love to live so pleasantly (2:12)
Live this life of luxury (2:16)
Lazing on a sunny afternoon (2:23)
In the summertime, in the summertime
In the summertime (2:34)

After all that has happened he wishes to start a new life.

 It is in reference to the yacht which was taken

 away from him and asking no one inparticular

whether or not he should stay. Most likely being intentional

 in the sense that it gives further question as to

 who he has to talk to or who would care whether or not he left.

Ah save me, save me (2:37)
Save me from this squeeze (2:42)
I've got a big fat momma tryin' to break me (2:49)

And I love to live so pleasantly (2:54)
Live this life of luxury (2:58)
Lazing on a sunny afternoon (3:05)
In the summertime, in the summertime (3:12)
In the summertime, in the summertime (3:17)
In the summertime.(3:25)

 His fortune was spoiled by his own stupidity, money consumed him and ironically robbed him of everything he had. It is all meant in a literal sense rather than hiding behind a lot of hidden meanings. Wants top get back to his pervious good life and away from the clutches of the mother. The only way to do that is to either start anew or be successful and wealthy.
 The lyrics being a satire of his life? Seems to always be unfulfilling and miserable.