Cavetown – 'Poison' (Official Audio)

Cavetown's "Poison" from the album LEMON BOY
© 2018 Cavetown

Ease your breath, Untie my hands
Release my neck, If you can
You don’t have to be like that

Don’t be afraid, There’s nothing strange
It’s not a trap

But there’s cars coming closer
And I think they’re trying to run me over
Poisoning my food
And putting drugs inside my water
There’s ghosts in my house
And I can taste blood in my mouth

Don’t be afraid, I’m not insane
Just irrational, but isn’t that the same?

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[alkersey]

For me, this song exposes the true silliness of anxiety and paranoia. Like the conversations I have with myself in my brain, or trying to explain my thought process to someone else. "Yes, I know it's irrational, I know _I'm_ irrational, but I can't just let it go. Maybe that's what makes it, or _me_ insane.". It's also written really well, not just the lyrics, but the instrumentals too. It almost feels wrong being able to listen to it for free, to be honest. Definatily one of my favorites off of the album. ❤❤❤

[rifka]

as someone schizophrenic this song gives me some kind of tingly feeling of being surrounded by people with the same condition. i kinda relate too! thank you robbie you make me feel things when i'm numb 🙋‍♀️

[bubbdhalybeescreatures]

Why are all my favorite song under 2 minutes? 😅 I need more

[lilalane]

you know when you're like "whoa. that lyric hit hard.", well for me that's this whole song.

[anash]

this and 'this is home' are both so relaxing sounding but they both give me crippling anxiety, sucks I can't stop listening to them

[sofiemetselaar]

I named my ukulele ‘Robin’ because of you and I ordered a lemon ukulele so I think I’m going to name that one ‘Lemon Boy’ 🙃

[TheDemonsPactOfficial]

His beats are so unique. My personal favorite is him dropping a coin on a table.

[meme-mtpi]

Who’s cutting onions??? Because I’m in tears.

[lililouist]

poison is definitely my favourite one! I'm glad you finally uploaded Lemon Boy here, it will be easier to make my friends listening to it :)

[emmasanidad]

this song reminds me of anxiety and the times i would be trying so hard to prevent myself from falling into a panic attack, repeating over and over in my mind that everything is fine. but once i start to calm down, something set it off or switches in me and im fucking spiraling down into it. i had that same feeling in my chest listening to this song when the “cars coming closer” part came on, but like, not as strong yknow?

[Sugon-]

This song gave me solace when I was suffering from pituitary apoplexy. My eyes hurt so it hurt to look at moving or bright things, I was so tired all the time and my head hurt so much I couldn’t function with Advil in my system the whole day. This calmed me and made me happy without being too loud or moving too much. Thank you, it was such a difficult and lonely time and your music helped me get through it.

[lizardparty_]

I may be three years late, but I thought I’d comment because of how much I’ve been listening to this song latley. Poison never fails to calm me down. Pretty much all Cavetown songs make me feel so loved. Like there’s someone there who actually knows what I’m going through and cares about me. I’m currently typing this at five am on a school day after a four day weekend and panicking because I really don’t want to go back. The school day for me is not only boring, but stressful. It makes me feel incredibly dysphoric.
Cavetown songs at least give me temporary comfort, though.

[river]

i want an extended verison its too shortttt. I WANT MOREEEE

[oclock]

This is in my top three favorites (with Lemon Boy and 10 Feet Tall)

I love this song/album so fricking much

[floofykxtty]

this song stopped me from severely hurting myself and im always going to be grateful towards cavetown and this song in particular for helping me basically stay alive

[burntgvn]

I never got diagnosed with an anxiety disorder but I think I might have one. When I was younger i'd be paranoid about the weirdest, smallest things to the point when I could barely function normally. My parents would often get sick of me wanting them to comfort me about all these things and would tell me that there's something wrong with me and I need help so I stopped telling them about my problems. Sometimes I would get these attacks of really strong anxiety when I would cry to my pillow until I fell asleep. This kind of stopped when i got older, but I still often get these irrational fears and I'm always worried about everything. It's hard to live with it but I got used to this. This song perfectly describes how it feels. It's just so well written

[pandalover]

For years and years at Christmas I never knew what to ask for. I never had something I was very obsessed with. I wasn’t a gamer, or a reader, or a painter like my sibling, or an athlete, or a music maker, (I was in middle school band a bit but wasn’t very good. It was a school instrument.) I wasn’t a cook or baker, skin care obsessed, or one of those journaling people. I just was me. Despite my family making a good amount of money, I could never get myself to ask for something over 30$ even though my family spent hundreds of dollars every Christmas. I discovered Cavetown over quarantine really early this year. After days and days of listening to the albums and songs on repeat, I can finally confidently put something on my Christmas list. A record player, Lemon Boy vinyl, Sleepyhead vinyl, Animal Kingdom vinyl, and a Cavetown shirt. I know all of it combined is way over 30$ but I’m just happy I can finally actually put something in my Christmas list that I actually want, really bad. So while it’s not much, Cavetown, thank you so much. I might’ve not been an og fan or a fan that goes to all you concerts, but I am a big fan. So again thank you 😊

[thisisirrelevant]

My favourite song was "Taking Care of Things" but your whole album was on repeat on my spotify

[Theo-qqfo]

This doesn't really have anything to do with the song and it's barely even related, but I think I just realized what love is, and I'm really fucking scared right now.

[Matoustar]

this song helps me so much whenever I feel anxious <333