Creepin' up on you is the wrong thing to do
I found your address got your phone number too
Visit all the stores where you buy all your clothes
Been to secret places you think nobody knows

If I have to breathe without you nobody should
I need to be around you watchin' you

No one else can love you like I do
Feel it when I'm creepin' up on you
I know that it wouldn't be right if I stayed all night
Just to peek in on you creepin' up on you

I been hanging round all the places you haunt
Spying on your friends to find out what you want
Drinking from the glass that you left on the bar
Follow you around driving home in your car

Do I have to breathe without you?
Coz nobody could I need to be around you
Watching you

No one else can love you like I do
Feel it when I'm creepin' up on you
I know that it wouldn't be right if I stayed all night
Just to peek in on you creepin' up on you

This must be wrong it can't go on
This kind of thing
It's taking all my sanity and making a mockery
This must be wrong it can't go on
So won't somebody free me from this misery
Bring my baby closer to me

No one else can love you like I do
Feel it when I'm creepin' up on you
I know that it wouldn't be right if I stayed all night
Just to peek in on you creepin'

No one else can love you like I do
Feel it when I'm creepin' up on you
I know that it wouldn't be right
If I stayed all night
Just to peek in on you creepin' up on you


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Creepin' Up on You Lyrics as written by Rick Nowels Darren Hayes

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  • +2
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    i'm always quite partial to stalker-like songs.

    screen dreamon April 30, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    This songs quite creepy don't you think? It's just un natural for him to be singing about being a stalker. He sounds deranged, which I suppose is the idea but still it's not his usual subject matter. Oh, and he doesn't suck.

    linz_eon August 28, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    no he doesnt suck, it's just different. apparently this is a fictional song, no stalking was done in the making of it. And neither has darren ever been stalked as far as he knows.

    fysiton April 16, 2003   Link
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    This is just enjoyable a pop-electronic song. I find it very amusing, not creepy at all, since it obvious he does not need to stalk anybody. Not deep meaning at all but so much better than the rest of pop music played on the radio, at least this one is original and Darren's voice sounds as unique as ever. :)

    Gabigson August 10, 2005   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    I used to play this song over and over. I think he's just overexaggerating an infatuation, and having some wicked fun with it. I think it's very refreshing.

    Misseveruson March 04, 2006   Link
  • +1
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    I still enjoy it today, after almost 4 years!...it makes me smile...(it's weird, I find myself commenting on my own comments of 7 months ago...but people change in 7 months, don't they? lol). I even used to picture Darren "drinking from the glass that she left on the bar"...I still love it and find it refreshing and fun too :)

    Gabigson March 07, 2006   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    hahaha yeah they were in different cars ;) The lines in this song, in a way, show how we behave when we are so into someone. I remember being infatuated for the first time and cherishing objects and pieces of paper on which this person draw something on...So we can all get a little obsessive when we are fascinated (not to Darren's level, lol).

    Gabigson March 11, 2006   Link
  • +1
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    I believe this maybe based on a fan that became more than infatuated with our mate Darren here. This song may not necessarily mean Darren is possibly a creepy stalker but as I persume most of you know even though this song is off his first solo album he had produced a few others when he was in Savage Garden making him already extremely famous, SG was very big back in the 90's. So this song could just be about an overly obsessive fan of his. I think this song is incredible how it looks at another persons point of view.

    Warpedmizzon January 20, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    Yeah me too screen =P This is a good song actually. One of his better ones.

    Clarzaon June 09, 2002   Link
  • 0
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    Very wicked! It's great, no? My sister and I were confused about the line, "follow you around, driving home in your car". We were like..."Ooookay Darren, now that makes no sense...how are you in her car?" And then obviously one day it hit me that HE'S following HER in seperate cars! Haha...wow, it was so simple, yet we both couldn't understand it!

    Misseveruson March 08, 2006   Link

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