Radiohead: Creep Meaning
Song Released: 1992
Covered By: Glee Cast
Creep Lyrics
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special
But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the...
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Song is about infatuation with someone who is amazingly beautiful and in order to get noticed or have the strength to go upto to her,is to have the same physical perfection. It seems he observes her from afar and feels terribly sad and stoic(wish I was special),comparing himself to her and ultimately realising that he is so far off to the point where he possibly contemplates taking his own life (I don't belong here, as he fades she appears to be running away) :(
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This song actually made me cry the first time I listened to it. To cut a long story short, I'm anorexic. I've always had low self esteem and felt like a complete outcast. What triggered my anorexia is the whole feeling of not belonging "what the hell am I doing here". Feeling like I'm not pretty blah blah blah. The feeling that I'm never going to be admired by boys the way my friends are. So when I heard this song I could relate to it so much it's scary, the way he sings "I don't care if it hurts, I wanna have control. I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul" is a thought I've had many a time. How everyone else is so special and I'm plain and boring and fat. Emotional stuff.
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i relate to this song a bit.
i wish i wasn't seen as ugly at school.
but this guy met a chick and he liked her & he thaught he was way too mutch of a loser to be with her. but he was with her anyways. -
I think it has to do with being an outcast. The line "I wish I was special, your so f*cking special" is basically the person singing sees someone who seems to have it all together and wishing he/she could share in the bliss. The lines "I want to have control, I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul" makes me think of anorexia because anorexics strive to control thier calories and how much they eat. Anorexics try to obtwain a perfect body to make themselves feel good or to fit in with others. However, on the inside they are hurting and want happiness. Anorexics often feel alone and like freaks. I think we have all experienced a time where we have felt like a creep or the outsider in a group.
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Haha. Yeah, doubt this has much to do with rape, geez. Basically about feeling inadequate or intimidated by someone's intelligence or something which anyone can feel that way, even a girl.
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Has anyone considered this guy is a closeted Talking Heads fan? Byrne wrote a song called radiohead and to me creep is eerily similar to Psychokiller in some ways. I made this connection and checked out this site to see if anyone else did. Maybe I am crazy.
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First verse, He sees a beautiful girl or perhaps he has been stalking her.
Second verse he rapes her "I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control."
Third verse, "she runs."
End, he is remorsful, "What ever makes you happy, what ever you want." notice he is now speaking as if he knows her personally. -
the band have already stated the meaning of the song,,but it can be interpreted many different ways. for example, it can be about a guy who wants to break up with his girlfriend for another girl.
"when you were here before,,couldnt look you in the eye"
--he notice the other girl while he's with his current girl but dont want to make her because will be to obvious that he's checking her out,,and his current girl might get jealous.
"you're just like an angel,,your skin makes me cry,,you float like a feather in a beautiful world"
--he's complimenting the girl
"i wish i was special,,you're so fucking special"
--he's not satisfied with his current relationship,,his girl probably a nag and always bitching(he doesnt feels special,,and he wants to be in a good relationship with the other girl (maybe he will feel special in that relationship)
"but imma creep,,imma weirdo"
--he's hating himself for wanting to break up with his girl
"what the hell am i doing here,,i dont belong here"
--he doesnt want to be with his girl no more :(
"i dont care if it hurts,,i want to have control,,i want a perfect body,,i want a perfect soul"
--he doesnt care no more if his girl gets heartbroken if he breaks up wither her,,he just wants to get it over with,,so he can be with the other girl that he thinks is so perfect
"i want you to notice when im not around,,you're so fucking special,,i wish i was special"
--he wants the girl to realise that she's special,,instead of him having to keep telling her
"she's running out the door"
--he keeps seeing her but doesnt have the audacity to go up to her
"whatever makes you happy,,whatever you want,,you're so fucking special,,i wish i was special"
--this is what his girlfriend is saying,,she finds out that he likes another girl and she doesnt care no more,,she just wants the best for him
"but imma creep,,imma weirdo"
--now he's hating himself for breaking up with his girl,,hopefully the other girl is worth all of this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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As others have said, this song is clearly about an under-confident individual seeking someone they like but not able to have the courage to do so. I see this as being about Thom Yorke himself, as he was bullied for his dropping eyelid. Obviously this would have given him a huge knock in his confidence over the years and eventually made him feel like an outsider and make him aspire to be like these 'special people'.
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It's about anorexia. I found the lyrics on a pro Ana site. Think about it
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I think it's about a person possibly trapped in the wrong body, feeling like they don't belong there, that they are a strange person in a different body--therefore they are unhappy w/ their current gender...so they wish they had a perfect body, a perfect soul...they want their mind to fit their gender, and since it doesn't they feel like a creep...maybe they are still coming to terms w/ it, so they can't look themselves in the eyes, ......so I think the song is about gender identity problems..
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I feel that it's simply about feeling invisible and outcast by the rest of "society"....i want you to notice when im not around...or take the line i dont belong here...i dunno i guess being an outcast i feel this song speaks volumes of what alot of people are feeling
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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