Creep

@thebirdie I had to make an account just to say that this is exactly what I get from the song, because that is how I feel exactly. Whenever I listen to the song, I feel like every single word is the way I feel, and I realize that while it sounds like longing for someone that is out of their league, it is really just how they feel about everybody. The feeling of shame and disgust at ones self for not being as good as a regular human being. The feeling that they are in a world of angels, and that they are nothing.

@thebirdie <br /> This was a deep analytical interpretation, and I can totally see it as you've laid it out. <br /> See, sometimes I get stumped, and I thought it was about someone who died and is in heaven and doesn't think he belongs there because he's autistic or has some impairment where people have shunned him his whole life. Silly me

@thebirdie <br /> I agree with most of your statements; however, I would guess (maybe even bet $$) that Radiohead intended a more broad exposure of "the society" in which such "creeps" might be created than to tell the (somewhat more mundane) story of how a person of lower status in such a society would respond. To me, the suggestion of sadness inherent in the narrator's apparent self-loathing is less important than the consistently exaggerated (and likely sarcastically portrayed) heights of high level members of the narrator's society. There is nothing specifically making a romantic connection, so I think it's valid to suggest that the problem being stated is that the "society" involved has ostracized and alienated the narrator. Why? Apparently, the narrator believes, "I don't belong here." But is that because the narrator really is self-denigrating? Or because the society leading to his/her situation is actually the accused? Personally, I think it's the latter. The "creep" is just stuck because he/she lives in a stupid world that fails to value things properly, causing inappropriately dramatic social barriers that confound natural human responses (like love and appreciation of beauty), and may even sometimes twist them into ugly anti-social responses.