Rainbow Gal Lyrics – Cavetown | from “Running With Scissors”

Cavetown’s glitching through the gray on Running With Scissors, his latest studio album slicing into view January 16, 2026 via Futures Music Group, and “Rainbow Gal” crashes in like a saved-game file—fuzzy, frantic, and full of that one face that reboots your whole world.

This lead single, dropped back in September, is Cavetown—Robin Skinner, the Cambridge bedroom wizard—at his most vivid: lo-fi synths that flicker like old Game Boy screens, paired with his soft, stumbling vocals that unravel anxiety into adoration. It’s indie pop with a chiptune heart, blending folk whispers and electronic blips into something that feels like falling asleep to Zelda while nursing a crush.

Thematically, it’s a love-as-lifeline dispatch: cornered in shutdown mode, pixel-frozen and monotone, until her “face on my phone” floods the feed with red, blue, brown—colors that scream “you’re my pretty rainbow gal.” It’s got that signature Cavetown tenderness, poking at neurodivergent drifts (“you silly fish I love you”) and the ache of feeling ungettable, all wrapped in a chorus that’s equal parts shelter and surrender. Co-written with David Pramik, it nods to his evolution toward brighter builds, less worm-food gloom and more hopeful hacks—teased on his TikTok with glitchy visuals that had fans remixing their own “without you there’s nothing” loops overnight.

Running With Scissors? It’s Cavetown’s forward-leap manifesto, a 12-track sprint through love’s sharp edges and self-reboot rituals, clocking in around 35 minutes of whimsical what-ifs. The lineup’s stacked: opener “Skip” with Ryan Raines, the cryptic “Cryptid,” “Baby Spoon,” “NPC,” “Reaper,” “Straight Through My Head,” and more, including collabs with Couros on “Reaper” and Orla Gartland co-writing “Tarmac” (out last month). No rigid arc, just Skinner unpacking duplexity—joy tangled with the jitters—in sessions split between his UK hideout and LA sparks, proving he’s trading solo spirals for shared screens. Official updates hit his Insta in waves: track teases, behind-the-scenes Polaroids, and that promise of “moving forward together” amid tour whispers for spring ’26.

Skinner’s hitting 28 in a sweet spot, post-Lemon Boy’s cult eternity and 2022’s Worm Food chart storm that turned his anxiety anthems into Gen Z gospel. Fresh off sold-out U.S. runs and a viral Coachella cameo blending ukulele tears with drop teases, he’s leaning queerer, glitchier—evolving from whisper-folk kid to pop alchemist who makes the mess feel magical. This album? It’s his scissors-run invite: come cut loose, no crashes required.

Dive into the Rainbow Gal lyrics below and unpack its raw narrative. Don’t miss other Running With Scissors tracks for more of Cavetown’s whimsical bedroom pop vibes.