Radiohead: Creep Meaning

Song Released: 1992

Covered By: Glee Cast

Creep Lyrics

When you were here before
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...

1. anonymous

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   Apr 21st 2006 !⃝

   This song is so painful. I can relate to it entirely. I have a dark purple birthmark covering the one half of my face and sometimes I feel like the song was written for me. During my adolesence I "wanted to have control, a perfect body, a perfect soul". I had a huge crush on one of the boys in my class, I can remember not being able to stop thinking about him and wanting him to notice me. How could he though? I was a freak!
   
   Luckily I don't feel like that any more and Ive grown up to be a very strong and confident person with a wonderful boyfriend.
   
   I adore the song. Everyone feels like this at some point in their life.
2. anonymous

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   Dec 23rd 2005 !⃝

   This song is not about not fitting in or whatever, it's a love song. It's about someone who is so in love with someone but thinks that they aren't worthy of being with that person hence, "I don't belong here."
3. anonymous

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   Sep 24th 2005 !⃝

   I think the previous interpretations are interesting, but maybe a little overzeallous. It is interesting how abstract lyrics can mean so much to so many different people, but I guess that is the whole point. To me, this song is simply about the inferiority that we all have experienced from time to time. The feelings that we don't belong and that that we have been somehow marginalized. And contradictory to the stated message, that we are all special and unique.
4. username

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   Jun 20th 2005 !⃝

   I think, as many have said here, that we can all relate to this song. Even the people who appear to be "so fucking special". Like the popular girls we've tried to impress or the cute boys that have used us or seem to have it all. The popular people are really "creeps" too, like us. They may appear to have it all. Rich daddy, money, looks but it all rounds out to bullshit. They have no one and nothing but themselves as we do.
   
   "I dont care if it hurts" to me has always symbolized a girl having sex for the first time with the "it" boy. she doesn't care if it hurts, she wants to have control. I've never been much for radio head but i always sing along wearily. especially when he says "I dont belong here..." maybe not just symbolizing life in general but being in the presense of the people that we admire and want to impress. Because none of us belong there and hopefully we can sing about that one day.
5. anonymous

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   Oct 20th 2003 !⃝

   I think we've all undergone the feelings contained within 'Creep' at some point in our lives. It's one of the few easily interpreted Radiohead songs (many can't be interpreted at all). My personal experience relates however, no just to one girl, but to a whole group of people - I'm speaking about my first year at uni, where my semi-gothic alt-rocker ways were totally alien to the broadly middle-class, attached-at-the-waist couples I came across. I seriously thought 'What the hell am I doing here?' - and the line 'I don't care if it hurts - I wanna have control' speaks of the easy way out I ended up falling for - alcohol, and lots of it. I didn't think of radically changing my life, I just didn't feel up to it. And the 'I wish I was special' - I definetly felt unimportant, ignored by my cold-shouldered contemporaries. But what would I care? They can rot in hell, I've left 'em far behind now.

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