For more than a decade now, 27-year-old English artist Robin Skinner, aka Cavetown, has been enchanting audiences with his sharp-edged, vulnerable lyricism and bedroom pop sound.
Their newest album, Running With Scissors, feels like a culmination of their work so far, tackling the sometimes unknowable liminal space between adolescence and adulthood with hyper-pop sensibilities. He’s grown since viral songs including “Devil Town,” “This Is Home” and “Juliet,” but themes of growing up and self-discovery remain as important as ever, especially as Robin reflects on the experience of being a trans man navigating life in strange and uncertain times. To celebrate the big release, we’ve collected 50 of the all-time best Cavetown lyrics—from Running With Scissors and beyond—for you to use as your next Instagram caption.
For the one who makes you feel like skipping down the road:
“It’s just what you do when you’re in love.”
-“Skip”
For knowing they’re the one:
“Kiss me once and all the time. You’re all I want for all my life.”
-“Skip”
For not liking how you look in photos:
“Delete it. I don’t look like that, that’s a cryptid.”
-“Cryptid”
For the video call with someone who makes you feel whole:
“But there’s your face on my phone and suddenly I’m safe and sound.”
-“Rainbow Gal”
For the person who’s become your favorite everything:
“My favorite color’s you right now.”
-“Rainbow Gal”
For celebrating someone who fixes everything for you:
“What am I gonna do with you? I’m broken and you’re super glue.”
-“Baby Spoon”
For throwing someone a quitting party:
“I’m so glad you quit that job. I hate to see you torn apart. The gain just wasn’t worth the cost. It doesn’t have to be so hard.”
-“Baby Spoon”
For feeling like an anonymous NPC in the world:
“Nobody knows me. That’s what they call me, you-know-who.”
-“NPC”
For not truly being the protagonist of your own life:
“The main character acting like an NPC.”
-“NPC”
For when no place feels like it’s where you belong:
“Everybody’s at home or away or in some third place, but I live in the space in between.”
-“NPC”
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For finding a person who feels like home:
“Here I am. I was nowhere, now I live in you.”
-“NPC”
For dealing with imposter syndrome:
“I’m a fake, I’m a fool, and it’s not even subtle.”
-“Reaper”
(Photo credit: Jaxon Whittington)
For when your mental health impacts absolutely everything:
“It’s all in my head, but that’s exactly the problem.”
-“Reaper”
For being so close to someone that you know all their tricks:
“Parasite. I’m onto you.”
-“Straight Through My Head (DO IT!!!)”
For realizing you’ve spent too much time in your head:
“I wanna feel like this forever. In my own little world I feel better than ever. I don’t wanna leave.”
-“Tarmac”
For suppressing thoughts you’re not ready to deal with:
“Whatever comes up in my head, it must go back down.”
-“Tarmac”
For desiring precisely what you can’t have:
“Tell me I can’t have it, I want it more now.”
-“Tarmac”
For being extra familiar with solitude:
“I’m a veteran at keepin’ to myself.”
-“No Bark No Bite”
For when someone’s acting extra pathetic:
“No bark, no bite. Bitty heart for a big guy.”
-“No Bark No Bite”
For exposing yourself to more of what life is:
“I’m lonely outside. Been taking the world for a test drive.”
-“Micah”
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For dealing with the complexity of love and commitment:
“Honey, you’re the one that I want, and I never wanna hurt you.”
-“Sailboat”
For when something inexplicable happens:
“There’s a first time for everything.”
-“First Time”
For craving the safety and comfort of home:
“I just wanna go home.”
-“First Time”
For waiting for certain events to repeat themselves again:
“I think this life is a circle, a line with a bend. Never ending, eternal, again and agai.”
-“Running With Scissors”
For chasing rewards, despite the risks:
“You’re running with scissors, I’m the samе.”
-“Running With Scissors”
For hoping someone will fully open up to you:
“You don’t have to be anybody you can never be. That’s alright, let it out, talk to me.”
-“Talk to Me”
For experiencing stereotypical toxic behavior:
“Boys will be bugs, right?”
-“Boys Will Be Bugs”
For needing to know how they feel about you:
“I like you. Say it back.”
-“Sweet Tooth”
For refusing to kill a spider just because it gets in your way:
“Spiders in your favorite shoes. Just leave them be ’cause they’re more scared of you.”
-“Devil Town”
For having no one to blame but yourself:
“I’ve got miles of regrets and confusing friends, but perhaps it’s just my stupid head in the end.”
-“Meteor Shower”
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For trying to learn how to ask for help:
“But I need to understand when I can power through and when I need some help from you.”
-“Juliet”
For being so obsessed it’s becoming a problem:
“Pay a visit to the doctor ’cause I have a sweet tooth for you.”
-“Sweet Tooth”
For when a small action completely changes your life:
“You don’t have to be a hero to save the world.”
-“Talk to Me”
For when life is sweet and sour:
“There once was a bittersweet man and they called him Lemon Boy.”
-“Lemon Boy”
For when you’d listen to them reading the phone book:
“Rant to me, I like the sound, I like your voice, I like your mouth.”
-“Fool”
For getting caught up in the minutiae all over again:
“I guess it’s just another one of those nights when I’ll spend way too much time on something so small that no one really cares about at all.”
-“It’s U”
For yearning to make a real different in the world:
“I wanna make a color that no one else has seen before. I wanna be so much more.”
-“Juliet”
For begging someone to stick around:
“Don’t you wanna give me time to write another song for you?”
-“Pigeon”
For the one who always calms your nerves:
“I still get a little scared of something new, but I feel a little safer when I’m with you.”
-“Devil Town”
For overthinking everything until it begins an issue:
“Making up problems that don’t exist. Why do I let myself dream like this?”
-“Meteor Shower”
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For missing your ex and wishing them well:
“I hope you feel happy. That’s all I want.”
-“Green”
For buying your emotions deep down:
“And if you wanna cry, make sure that they never see it, or even better yet, block it out and never feel it.”
-“Boys Will Be Bugs”
For looking forward instead of backward:
“Life’s too short to worry about things that we got wrong.”
-“Hug All Ur Friends”
For wondering if you can continue nurturing a relationship like it needs:
“But what if I run out of fertilizer? What if the clouds run out of rain?”
-“Lemon Boy”
For putting on a different mask for the day:
“Feeling sick of myself. Think I’ll try to be someone else.”
-“Sweet Tooth”
For learning that it’s okay to be a little selfish from time to time:
“It doesn’t make you a narcissist to love yourself.”
-“Talk to Me”
For risking it all for unrequited love:
“i am just a fool to keep on chasin’ after nothing great.”
-“Fool”
For hoping someone special returns your feelings:
“Would you dance for me too? I’m counting on you.”
-“888”
For struggling to let your emotions out:
“I need to cry but I can’t get anything out of my eyes or my head.”
-“Juliet”
For finding a space place, away from the judgment of the world:
“Life’s alright in Devil Town. We’re right, no one’s gonna catch us now.”
-“Devil Town”
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