Dunno if this applies to the song, but here's an interesting statement that Daniel Johns gave in regards to the band themselves being freaks:
Interviewer: Are you getting used to feeling like freaks?
Daniel: We don't feel like total freaks. We just feel that its kind of similar to being in the freak show. It's just like people like treat you differently - think you're different but your not. People think you're a lot different than you are and that's also like freaks look different from the outside than they are on the inside really. And it's the same with being in a rock band, really.
Dunno if this applies to the song, but here's an interesting statement that Daniel Johns gave in regards to the band themselves being freaks:
Interviewer: Are you getting used to feeling like freaks?
Daniel: We don't feel like total freaks. We just feel that its kind of similar to being in the freak show. It's just like people like treat you differently - think you're different but your not. People think you're a lot different than you are and that's also like freaks look different from the outside than they are on the inside really. And it's the same with being in a rock band, really.
https://www.angelfire.com/super/rockthedj/dannyfreak.html