Cavetown: Devil Town Meaning
Devil Town Lyrics
Yeah, right, no one's gonna catch us now
Dad has bought a new car now
We're fine, no one's gonna catch us now
You said something dumb again
She's mad, at least that's what they say
Mum and daddy aren't in...
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#1 top rated interpretation:I found this on youtube:
Y'all realize that 'Devil Town' is kinda representative of a family coming apart and two children dying?
Because of the song literally having lines of ''You said something dumb again, shes mad.'' Maybe its in the perspective of a child seeing a sibling (Or friend) being yelled at,
Since the person obviously had a dysfunctional family, with the lines of "Mum and Daddy arent in love".
The person had some issues because the line of "Ill lose my mind another thousand times" and the child had found comfort in the Sibling or friend because of the line of "I feel safer when I am with you." and "Hold my hand tight, We'll make it another night"
And maybe the Sibling or friend committed suicide, and the Child also followed the sibling (Or friend) to hell (Hence the name "Devil Town").
The line of "Falling doesn't feel so bad when I know you've fallen this way too." The child committed suicide because his Friend (Or sibling) left him/her alone.
Together, they live in hell.
And the lines to prove that they are in Hell (Devil Town) together are:
"We're all DEAD in Devil Town"
"That's fine, cause nothings gonna scare US now"
"I forgot my name again, I think that's something worth remembering.." (They are forgetting who they are)
"Spiders in your favorite shoes" (His/her shoes are left in the overworld, abandoned)
and that's all.
and if you made it this far, you truly deserve a cookie <3
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#2 top rated interpretation:I think that this song is about two siblings that went through their parents divorce. They were very close and were always there for each other. One of them committed suicide or died for another reason. The other sibling is left on Earth and is talking to his/her deceased sibling. They are conversing about the after life and how the parents are doing. The sibling that’s still alive is having suicidal thoughts and wants to go to devil town with his sibling. Idk that’s what i think but the holocaust theory is interesting as well.
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#3 top rated interpretation:I really related to this song so I wanted to tell my interpretation.
I feel like this song is about a child who is struggling mentally in a "perfect family". I think devil town is something in their mind, I'm not sure what, but I'll elaborate why later.
"You said something dumb again. She's mad, at least that's what they say. Mum and daddy aren't in love.That's fine, I'll settle for two birthdays", I think this means the child's parents are considering divorce, this is because it seems like they're still together but still arguing.
"Devil town is colder in the summertime", this line may mean the more the child tries to act happy/warm, the more they start to feel emptier/colder.
When the song references to the other person, I think they mean a person in the world in their head. Personally, the people in my head have genuinely helped me get through some times in my life, like an escape.
"We're all dead in devil town. That's fine, 'cause nothing's gonna scare us now" may mean no one's real in devil town, it's all in the child's imagination. This would also mean the child has control over what's happening so they aren't scared anymore.
"We're all in our dressing gowns, mine's white and stripey, yours is green and brown", I think this means the child feels caged, but they think their friend in his other world is free. I think this because white and stripey gowns sound a lot like how prison gowns look. Green and brown sound like earth/natural colours.
"I forgot my name again. I think that's something worth remembering", the child may not use their real name in their other world, so they start to forget an important part of their identity. I think this because I've experienced this and I started to realize how the other world has took so much from the real me, yet I didn't regret any of it.
"How do you feel so proud? Every time I close my eyes, the colours fade and change inside my mouth", I think this verse was directed to the child's parents feeling so proud for looking perfect in other's eyes while destroying their kid. The child is questioning that because their other world is starting to become a little to real (meaning, they've ruined them to the point to losing touch with reality.)
Sorry if my wording is really repetitive, I just really wanted to put my input because this is my comfort song <3.
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At first I thought this song was about the average two people falling in love and the two of them running away together. But then I listened closer and I thought wow it’s a lot different then I thought a first. I think that two children or teens parents had a divorce and then one of the parents may have been abusive or even both in the lyrics it says : you say something dumb again at least that’s what they say may mean there mother is mad a lot and there is another lyric that is about the dad saying dad has bought a new car know where fine no one’s going to catch us now which maybe means that the dad ran them over. And or threatened them with it and they went to the unknown. Or devil town. But other parts confused me like we all were our dressing gowns and devil town is colder in the summer time and I forget my name again. This song probably has many different meanings but those are my thoughts on it.
Thank you for reading all the way through:)
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I honestly feel as if this is about divorce, depression, and possibly bullying.
“Mom and daddy aren’t in love..” this line is expressing divorce which I feel adds the the depression
“I forgot my name again.. I think that’s something worth remembering” if he was bullied this would make a lot of sense. As a person who was mentally bullied for a long time I sometimes “forgot” my real name. (not actually forgot but like was in denial of my name) my real name in my head was switched out for freak, furry, ect.
“Devil town is colder in the summer time” devil town, for me, sounds like sort of a town of hell. And hell is hot. So in the summertime, out of school, the bullying is better which means that “devil town” is not as burning as it is during school.
“Hold my hand tight we’ll make it another night.” In my experiences with bullying I can confirm (and this is for me) that I was decently suicidal. Practically just thoughts and “what ifs..” but there was some thoughts of cutting and if life would better without me.. I’m better now but that was definitely an experience. But all the way through this I had that one person who would always be by my side while i thought these thoughts.
Remember that this is my interpretation of what this song means and not complete truth. If you made it down here thank you for reading and have a nice night/day☺️
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I think it’s about two kids in a divorce the divorce part is hinted at in the lyrics “ mom and dad aren’t in love that’s fine I’ll settle for two birthdays” and maybe the two kids ran away or thinking about running away I think this because of the lyrics “life’s alright in devil town yeah right no one’s gonna catch us now”then in the lyrics “devil town is colder in the summer time”is like the two kids use school as a escape from the divorce and when there is no school then they have to deal with the divorce. And for the lyrics “I forgot my name again I think it’s something worth remembering”because sometimes when traumatic experiences happen especially when it involves kids then they can forget some stuff because they blocked it out.(sorry if this isn’t accurate it’s just how I interpreted it).
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I think that it is about the after of a child who has experienced their sibling's suicide,after the divorce of their parents.they go slowly insane,and forget about it
their old life, referring to the line 'i forgot my name again'.
Deviltown can mean different things.it could refer to the child's mind,or a psych ward.
The line 'falling doesn't feel so bad when i know ur falling this way too'might mean that they met a friend who had been thru smth similar.
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I think this song means two parents divorced and they move two two diferent city’s your childhood one and a random “ life’s alright in devil town” meaning life’s alright in so and so town
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I feel like this song is about a kid who knows their parents are going to get a divorce, because of their dad always spending money. “You said something dumb again she’s mad, atleast that’s what they say” this might mean the dad always telling the child their mom gets mad at the child for dumb things. The child eventually fed up with this runs away with someone with the same problems and run to the forest which they call “Devil Town”. Spider’s in your favorite shoes” is probably from the forest. The child is most likely losing their mind but the other person holds their hand to make it through another night. And the new things are things they’ve never seen because they are in a forest. They’ve lost their mind and have forgotten their name after being in the forest for too long.
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I think it's because a girl has been suffering w parents like her parents always fights about something whenever they get the chance to see each other they fight so she is fine or okay with 2 birthdays cause her parents divorced and she will spend a birthday with her mom the day before and her dad in her birthday or opposite I mostly agree about this song and I recently been playing it alot it's sad my headphones so I can't listen to my suicidal music so I've been listening to this I am only 10 years old and already going through all of this I have a friend that says I don't relate to it he always fight w me and it looks like he's wishing me to die and I hope I will die soon enough so they will be normal and quiet and peaceful without me.
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I think that this song isn’t about a kids story i think it’s about a collective idea of childhood trauma the mentions of everyone’s dead in devil town is about how kids with childhood trauma think that everyone is like that that there not different that it’s a song about how kids with childhood trauma’s often become friends how they tend to be in it together
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I think devil Town is about 2 kids who ran away because their parents got a divorce. The dad got a new car because of the divorce. While the kids have run away one passes away. Now all the alive child has is memories. The child is now figuring life out alone, and they develop schizophrenia. They see the ghost of their sibling, and talk to it whenever they are scared because it makes them feel better. They later go to a phsych ward and that is known as devil town. They make a friend in the ward and that's "falling doesn't feel so bad when I know you're falling this way too" maybe they've been through a lot of the same things. -
I think that after a divorce, the dad has taken his two kids and run away with them to get them away from the mum, saying that mum is bad or can’t look after them properly. The kids aren’t scared of anything they face on the way because they know that nothing can be as scary as the parents fighting. They are glad they have each other. They refer to them running away as being in Devil Town because they know it’s wrong deep down and that the mum doesn’t deserve it. They’re scared of being caught by the mum because she’ll be so angry, as well as social services, who know that neither parents are ok to look after the kids.
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This song is about two siblings who are dealing with the struggles of having divorced parents, hence the lines “Mommy and Daddy aren’t in love; it’s fine, I’ll settle for two birthdays.” The “Devil Town” referenced is a metaphor for the house where the siblings grew up (if the parents split into different houses, that could be where the “town” comes from). Their parents are referred to as “devils” because the children are forced to grow up only seeing their worst sides. This leads the children to believe themselves to be “devils” too, as they are their children and they reside in the “Devil Town”. The lines “Devil Town is colder in the summertime; I’ll lose my mind at least another thousand times” could be referring to how the children’s main escape from dealing with their family is school, and during the summer months they don’t have that, leading them to feel “cold”. It is also implied that the siblings, or at least the one who is narrating, are starting to go insane from their trauma (or at least, are developing mental disorders of a sort).
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I think Dad kidnapped the kids.
That is why they feel they might get caught.
Dad got a new car to help avoid being caught.
He has then remember a different name, again, not to get caught.
Dressing gowns because they are wearing the same clothes over and over.
They go to a place that colder in the summertime…
Everything being new, and scary, just trying to make it through another night…
Called Devil town because everything feels insane and frightening, so much do there’s even sympathy for scarred spiders.
I really don’t get the dead sibling angle or suicide interpretations.
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Well this is my opinion, but I think they are running away from their parents because they were abusive. Idrk, but they may be wearing those gowns because that's the only thing they had? Remember when it said daddy has a new car now? I think that's because he wanted a faster car to find them? And like... the second child running away with the child is dead? Heh... yeah idk.. but is it a good idea??
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I think to be honest that its about 2 siblings who's parents are getring divorced 1 becomes deprresed and kills him self while the other lives but soon to find out he has Amnesia wich reffers to the line " I forgot my name again" while hes praying his dead sibling responds with " i think thats something worth remembering" exept the part about the Spiders in the shoes i had to think about, but while thinking i think so far that the line "just leave them be cause their more scared of you" is the dead sibling telling his alive brother that he's stronger than their parents and he can live a better life. Then tue lyrics" were all in oir dressing gowns mines white and stripy yours is green and brown" means that in devil town you get gowns of the color based off of youre personality and they already have the alive siblings gown ready for him just in cause.
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