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
I wish I was special
You're so fuckin' special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so fuckin' special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here, oh, oh

She's running out again, oh
She's running out
She run, run, run, run
Run

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so fuckin' special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't belong here


Lyrics submitted by piesupreme, edited by Radiohead123, AgingRocker65, TheFallenOne

Creep Lyrics as written by Albert Louis Hammond Mike Hazelwood

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    @katyana I can certainly appreciate your generalization and I think the song can be seen that way. I'd like to think that most people could take it that way, but without any personal research into what Radiohead said about the song, I can't help taking it in a somewhat darker sense. To me, these lyrics are haunting in how they seem to poignantly suggest two sides of the same coin: while the self-proclaimed "creep" admires people of higher social circles, there is an understated, sarcastic tone to it that suggests he/she laments more the society that places some advantaged folks above him/her than his unjust position within that context.

    In fact, the narrator never denigrates himself specifically beyond the label of "creep" and "I don't belong here." Meanwhile, there is consistently a tone of exaggeration in the descriptions of those deemed of higher status: 1) "you're just like an angel; 2) your skin makes me cry; 3) you float like a feather (in a beautiful world, no less!)

    But despite wanting "a perfect body" and "perfect soul," the narrator has no out because those are things only attributed to people of certain social status so all that is left is questioning such a society with statements like "you're so fucking special" (accusatory) and "I wish I was special" (sarcastic, because the problem is in the society, not the narrator.

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