Cover art for Self Control by Cavetown

Self Control

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Feb. 28, 20191 viewer32.5K views

Self Control Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I'll be the boyfriend in your wet dreams tonight
Noses on a rail, little virgin wears the white
You cut your hair but you used to live a blonded life
Wish I was there, wish we'd grown up on the same advice
And our time was right


[Chorus]
Keep a place for me, for me
I'll sleep between y'all, it's nothing
It's nothing, it's nothing
Keep a place for me, for me

[Verse 2]
Now and then you miss it, sounds make you cry
Some nights you dance with tears in your eyes
I came to visit, 'cause you see me like a UFO
That's like never, 'cause I made you use your self-control
And you made me lose my self-control, my self-control

[Chorus]
Keep a place for me
I'll sleep between y'all, it's nothing
Keep a place for me
It's nothing, yeah, it's nothing
It's nothing, it's nothing

[Guitar Solo]

[Outro]
I, I, I know you gotta leave, leave, leave
Take down some summertime
Give up, just tonight, night, night, night
I, I, I know you got someone comin'
You're spittin' game, I know you got it
I, I, I know you gotta leave, leave, leave
Take down some summertime
Give up, just tonight, night, night, night
I, I, I know you got someone comin'
(Keep a place for me, for me)
You're spitting game, y'know you got it, yeah
(I'll sleep between y'all, it's nothing)
I, I, I know you gotta leave, leave, leave
(It's nothing, yeah, it's nothing, keep a place for me, for me)
Take down some summer time
Give up, just tonight, night, night, night
(Keep a place for me, for me)
I, I, I know you got someone comin'
(It's nothing, yeah, it's nothing)
You're spitting game, y'know you got it, yeah
(It's nothing, yeah, it's nothing)

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Genius Annotation

Self Control is track 7 in Cavetown’s 10-track mixtape with five two-track EPs titled Animal Kingdom, so it’s also a part of Animal Kingdom: Shells – EP with Mario Golf.

This song is covering the slow ballad of Frank Ocean’s, which is under the same title. The lyrics are the same, minus the Intro and Bridge, which Cavetown extracted.

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Which section of the mixtape split does the song belong to?
Genius Answer

This song is the first track of the forth split of the Animal Kingdom mixtape. It is track 1 out of 2 of Shells, which is split 4 out of 5 of Animal Kingdom.

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Acoustic Guitar
Release Date
February 28, 2019
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