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Cavetown

Fool

Release date: 2018

From Lemon Boy
Track 4
3:54
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'Fool' is a study in circular self-recrimination. Cavetown traces the shape of a relationship that neither party seems willing to leave, each complicit in its own stasis. The narrator chases nothing great; the other person pretends at love. Neither moves. The song sits in this paralysis with a kind of resigned clarity, the repeated refrain anchoring itself in uncertainty: "I don't know where I'm supposed to go." What makes it work is the specificity beneath the confession. Phone calls at three in the morning, complaints about mothers, trips to the cemetery, cycling to school at half past seven. These details ground the abstraction. Cavetown's voice stays small and intimate, letting the vulnerability live in the plainness of the admission rather than in volume. By the final verse, the tense shifts backward; what was present becomes past, though nothing has actually resolved. The closing parenthetical whisper, a voice offering reassurance, arrives too late to change the shape of what came before.

"Fool" is a track by Cavetown, from the album Lemon Boy, released 2018. The track is 3:54 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Cavetown.

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Cavetown

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Lyrics

Fool

I am just a fool to keep on chasin' after nothing great
You are just a fool to keep pretendin' that you're lovin' me
I don't know where I'm supposed to go
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Call me on the phone at three, I talk to you while half asleep
Complaining 'bout your mother so I take you to the cemetery
Rant to me, I like the sound, I like your voice, I like your mouth
Oh
Oh-oh
Mm-mm-m

Cycling to school at 7:30 in the morning
I am still your baby boy, I'm stuck in 2013
Don't understand my body
Washing machine confuses me
Oh
Oh-oh
Mm-mm-m

I am such a fool to keep on chasing after nothing great
You are such a fool to keep pretending that you're loving me
I don't know where I'm supposed to go
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

I was such a fool to keep on chasing after nothing great
You were such a fool to keep pretendin' that you're lovin' me
I don't know where I'm supposed to go
(Look in the mirror, I love that boy, don't hurt my dear, don't hurt my joy)
Oh
Oh-oh

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Track details

From Lemon Boy

3:542018
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Album
Lemon Boy
Lemon Boy
Cavetown
2018
Track number
4
Release year
2018
  1. 1Lemon Boy
    4:33
  2. 2Green
    4:30
  3. 3It's U
    4:13
  4. 4Fool
    3:54

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    The upcoming album 'Running With Scissors' drops later this month.

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    "It’s finally being unveiled at just the right time," comments Cavetown.

    19 May 2023 • 3:40 pm
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    You'd be better of getting tickets to Cavetown's tour later this year, rather than Iron Maiden (baby).

    22 Oct 2021 • 7:50 am
    Cavetown has teamed up with the electronic/dance producer Kina for ‘Sharpener’s Calling Me Again’
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    Cavetown has teamed up with the electronic/dance producer Kina for ‘Sharpener’s Calling Me Again’

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    29 Jan 2021 • 2:10 pm
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    Give it a watch.

    6 May 2020 • 8:53 pm
    Cavetown has debuted a brand new video for his latest track, 'Sweet Tooth'
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    It's taken from his forthcoming album, 'Sleepyhead'

    13 Mar 2020 • 10:09 am