Class: ENGL1302
Instructor: Arturo Valdespino
Date: 09/27/2013
Lyrics For The Remember
Have you ever heard a song that made you feel special or made you feel an unusual feeling? All over the world, most written song have a meaning or a message that the listeners catch and enjoy. Every song has a story to tell, and this story can decide if the song becomes a hit or another song more of the bunch. One of the most controversial and expressive songs ever made is “Creep” by Radiohead. It is a famous song released in 1992. The band singer Thom Yorke wrote "Creep" while studying at Exeter University in the late 1980s . “Creep” encloses many feelings and stories that make people want to listen the song over and over. Its lyrics can be considered the most deep and depressive message of a man about a woman.
During 1992, Radiohead improvized the song “Creep” in a recording session. At first, the song was dry in arrangements. Latter on, it becames one of the most popular hits of Radiohead. According to Yorke, "Creep tells the tale of an inebriated man who tries to get the attention of a woman to whom he is attracted by following her around. In the end, he lacks the self-confidence to face her and feels he subconsciously is her”. Yorke always was very introspective with his lyrics and “Creep” was not the exception. Played with four basic chords and repeated them throughout the whole song, this song becomes a bomb of depression while it is playing.
The first two verses of “Creep” make an introduction about what is going on with the man who tries to get the attention of the woman.”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 very special”. These two verses express an impotence of the man. How can he attract her? He realizes that he is not a handsome man, but he accept that the woman is so