Lyrics for Creature Fear as interpreted by J.Diddy

Creature Fear Lyrics
I was full by your count
I was lost but your fool
Was a long visit wrong?
Say you are the only

So many foreign worlds
(So relatively fucked)
So ready for us
So ready for us,
The creature fear

Teased by your blouse
Spit out by your mouth
I was loud by your lowered
Seminary sold

Tear on tail on
Take all on the wind on
The soft bloody nose
Sign another floor...

The so many territories
Ready to reform
Don't let it form us
Don't let it form us
The creature fear

So did he foil is 'own?
Is he ready to reform?
So many torahs
So many for us
The creature fear

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bgordon2
04-12-2008

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i cant believe no one's commented on this song yet... i love this song. i love this whole album. would i be coming out of left field to guess that this song has something to do with the US' involvement in iraq, the overall war on terror, and the culture of fear that has pervaded this country?

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YouKnowStuff
06-23-2008

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i don't think it has to do with anything political, or even about our nation. the rest of the album is deeply personal..i don't think this song is any different.

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barstr7
08-19-2008

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I'm not sure if these are right. Maybe they are and I'm hearing things but it sounds like:

I was full by your count
I was lost but your fool
Was a long visit wrong?
Say you are the only

So many foreign worlds
So ready to be full
So ready for us
So ready for us,
A creature fear

I was teased by your blouse
Spit out by your mouth
I was lulled by your low
Seminary song

Tear on tear on
Take all on the wind on
Soft bloody nose
Send another form

So many territories
Ready to reform
Don't let it form us
Don't let it form us
A creature fear

So did he foil is 'own?
Is he ready to reform?
So many tourists
So many forests
A creature fear

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marculatoren
09-10-2008

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I think it is more simple. He lived in a wood cabin in Wisconsin for three months. He got scared of the wild animals.

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selfishisgorgeous
09-25-2008

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no marculatroen, i think that creature fear refers to the innate fear in animals that has evolved as a survival mechanism. in humans it can hold us back for fear of failure or embarrassment

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Hobbespawn
10-07-2008

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Although I agree it's incongruous with the personal feel of the album I think it's definitely a commentary on the US's foreign policy.
That aside it's mixed with very bitter feelings of betrayal towards a person.
So in conclusion it's personal geo-political ramble with one of the best choruses ever committed to vinyl.
And the live version...
If anyone can listen to this whilst driving and not punch the roof of their car like the Dude in the Big Lebowski then they have terrific self-control.

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robbnthahood
10-24-2008

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yeah its definitely not so many torahs, its tourists, i think barstr7 has it more correctly transcribed

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lyrics01
10-28-2008

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I believe it is most certainly "so many torahs." The definition can be simply understood as "law or instruction." I believe Justin is talking about the different roads in life that we can take; the abundance of options in life can lead to confusion and ultimately mistakes are going to be made along the way. There isn't necessarily a right or wrong path in this situation, however, he is certainly writing about the "wrong" and all the negative aspects of it. He is specifically writing about relationships gone bad.

I believe this song has no political ties at all. I think people read/heard the word "foreign" and tried to run with it.

I must agree with selfishisgorgeous; you're definition of creature fear was right on!

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YouKnowStuff
12-10-2008

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it's torahs. it's in the lyrics in the liner notes on For Emma.

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Cyberghost
01-19-2009

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I think this is about being madly in love with somebody and unsure about how the other person feels,

first verse
I was full by your count
I was lost but your fool
Was a long visit wrong?
Say you are the only

He's saying he's lost and empty, but she fill's him up and in love with her "her fool", maybe he came to visit her, and asks her if that was wrong.

second verse
So many foreign worlds
So ready to be full
So ready for us
So ready for us,
A creature fear

She tells him she's not really in love with him, and these are "foreign words" to him, and now his heart that was full of love for her is taken over by the creature, fear.

third verse
I was teased by your blouse
Spit out by your mouth
I was lulled by your low
Seminary song

He's unsure about how she really feels about him, maybe her body language is saying one thing and her mouth is saying another and he's confused.

forth verse
Tear on tear on
Take all on the wind on
Soft bloody nose
Send another form

He is hit with the truth that she doesn't really have feelings for him.

fifth verse
So many territories
Ready to reform
Don't let it form us
Don't let it form us
A creature fear

this confuses me a bit, but here is what I make of it,

He tries to win her back saying that he will reform any part of himself "his territories" for her, and he's trying to fight away the fear that he might loose her.

last verse
So did he foil is 'own?
Is he ready to reform?
So many tourists
So many forests
A creature fear

He wonders if all this was his own fault, and questions if he really is read to reform, and if he his captured by this creature, fear.


Okay I have no idea if any of this is right, just me reading into it.



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eneyeseekaywhy
01-20-2009

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Does everything have to be about foreign policy and America with you Morons? It couldn't possibly be about a relationship? Are you all so sheltered that "foreign" automatically insinuates foreigns lands, cultures or people? Its juvenile the way you interpret song lyrics. Enjoy the Illiteration, rhythm and atmosphere and stop your idiotic presumption that everything refers to the twin towers attacks or your boys in Iraq.

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negatyve
02-19-2009

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eneyeseekaywhy: Interpreting a song is completely subjective. People will take whatever they want from it, regardless of the artists intention. There is no "wrong" interpretation and I fail to see how someone finding parallels between this song and current events is anymore juvenile than chastising someone in an internet forum for having an interpretation of completely subjective material contrary to yours. Furthermore, if any form of interpretation is over used on this website, it's interpreting the song in the context of a relationship. By your logic we should condemn your attempt to simplify these lyrics down into a love song.

Anywho...when SongMeanings sends out the memo informing the rest of us morons that we're no longer entitled to a free thought and the your almighty opinion is the only acceptable way to interpret completely subjective art, I'll be sure to forward it along to the rest of the morons. Until then, STFU.

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YouKnowStuff
02-23-2009

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i agree with eneyeseekaywhy, even if not as angrily. to think that it's about Iraq or foreign policy would lead it to not fit in with the personal...ness...of the album.

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anemicamour
03-10-2009

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this song is most definitely not about war/irag/foreign policy or anything political.

No really Justin's style. Even if you look back into his solo stuff. Or Deyarmond Edison. Lyrics tend to be personal, emotional, and based on spiritual belief, life, love, and all that is entailed in that.

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KWahDB
05-06-2009

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How people can be getting so heated over this seems ridiculous and in a sense counterproductive to the existance of this site!

Negatyve i agree with you.. The lyrics are shrouded with metaphor and poetic creativity and therefore each interpretation deserves its airing if backed by whats actualy written in the song..

Personally i doubt it is to do with the war. However if you cannot see how people have arrived at that interpretation then your are very naive and close-minded.

I think its great if a song can mean one thing to one person and an entirely contradictory thing to another..

KWahDB





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dreamland1844
05-11-2009

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I like to see songs as the easiest way to describe our feeling...I know that human sometimes makes it complicated..but naturally why he wrote this song and sing it,its because he want us to understand his feeling..for me this song is about someone who to afraid to let people know how they really feel.everything seems so foreign..

So many foreign worlds
So ready to be full
So ready for us
So ready for us,
A creature fear

He said that so may foreign worlds out there for both of them to be full..Its like He ask her to find the guts to take the chance to go and see the world and see what will happen if they be together...

sometimes we see others as a creature...from other forest,other places that seems so strange..and that makes us afraid to take the chance to go out and let people know what do we really want and who we really are..afraid to get hurt..afraid to get lost again......

The point is..He ask her not to be a creature fear..He asked her to take this chance to be together...

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dreamland1844
05-11-2009

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This song become the soundtrack from TV show CHUCK on NBC...and if you guys watch it..you will understand why they choose this song to express the character feelings..

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Tyler2004durden
06-06-2009

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I really can't understand what he's singing but I love song.
It's so intense.
Just got the album (finally) and have been listning to it non stop.
It's amazing!

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goat6707
08-13-2009

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My interpretation:

The song is obviously about a relationship... like the rest of the album. The two aren't really on the same page though. He's put up a bit of a front. She sees him as stable (I was full by your count), but in reality, he's conflicted (I was lost but your fool). He wants to start a new life with her, and at the same time, he's wondering if he's making a mistake... if the relationship is going to last.

He wants to have a life with this girl. But he wants it to be in a "foreign world," meaning, he wants it to be unrelated to their current lives. He wants her to kind of abandon her current situation and be with him and start a new life. But instinctively, she's scared by the change (creature fear).

The third part tells me that he actually confronts her about these feelings. "Teased by your blouse" tells me that he's attracted to her. "Spit out by your mouth" tells me that she's rejecting him, verbally at least. She doesn't want to He's reactive (loud) to her opposition (lowered). "Seminary sold" signifies that he's giving up on his feelings and giving in to the current life. He's settling.

He's using words like "tear on", "tail on", "wind on". He's gong to continue to settle... and follow... and just kind of deal with it. "The soft bloody nose" really confuses me. Bloody nose could be a result of physical conflict between the two, or drug addiction, or illness. I'm not really sure which. Whatever it is though, has kind of marked the low point in their relationship.

He acknowledges the current life, and the current pressures that are trying to shape (or reform) their relationship. He doesn't want to accept his current life and now the "creature fear" is on him.

The last part is kind of a cliffhanger. We wonder if where they are at now... which way did they go. Did he give in to the present and give up his ambition of a new life? The word "torah" though, translates to English as "instructions". In respect to the Bible though, Torah refers to the first five books... old testament obviously. So he may be saying that there is so much history between them. Or that there is so many instructions for them to follow... pressures. At the same time, Torah includes Genesis... a new beginning. So he may again be stressing that there is a new life for them... that they can start over.

Creature fear seems kind of like a struggle with trust and change. She wants the safety of the current life and he wants something totally new. Both are scared to trust each other. The song after it on the album is "Team"... completely instrumental. It kind of builds up and then ends. "For Emma" seems like a breakup.

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scruffy2dope
09-28-2009

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this is what it sounds like hes sayin and what it sounds like it means TO ME. i started listening to this ablum from the beginning to end of a 2 1/2 year relationship (we were still so young.). mainly the breakup lol
fuck you if you dont like it, i get emotional to his shit.
this is what ive never questioned it meant, cuz it MEANT to me.
enjoy


I was full by your count
I was lost but your fool
Was a long visit wrong?
Say you are the only

(probably about love, being full by someones count, your completely satisfied with what they have to offer. but getting so lost in yourself and becoming somebodys fool. then-in my experience- was a long visit wrong? or should i have even visited then at all. please, say you are my only) very retrospective

So many foreign worlds
(So relatively fucked)
So ready for us
So ready for us,
The creature fear


(there were so many foriegn roads, distance places, the fucking future, so amazing (so relativley fucked) so ready for us. the creature fear is almost a tool to me, depending on whats goin on it can be and should be versitile)

I'sd Teased by your blouse
Spit out by your mouth
I was loud by your lowered
Seminary sold

(I was brought in, decieved, even, by your beauty, then spit out by your mouth, you tell me to be quiet, i got loud, and now, {seminary has an origin which means
"plot where plants are raised from seeds," so your birthing ground, your rock, or everything you have worked for is sold, or taken away from you)

Tear on
tail on
Take all on the wind on
(if you really wanna go, then tear on, tail on, and take all on the wind on)
The soft bloody nose
seminary flow
(seniary also means school, or a higher learning, so your scarred but you've learned from it)

The so many territories
Ready to reform
Don't let it form us
Don't let it form us
The creature fear
(everyone and everything is always changing, and being scared of change)


So did he foil is 'own?
Is he ready to reform?
So many torahs
So ready for us
The creature fear

(did he block his own shot?
now is he ready to change?
torahs, books to live by, i guess so many lessons we have to learn, and soooo ready, its (the creature fear) Life

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Ethaneeze
09-29-2009

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I haven't spent too much time with this song, as opposed to the countless hours spent with Justin Vernon's other stuff, but this song happens to be one of favorite songs on the album (which isn't saying much because they are all my favorite). But this one in particular makes me feel very strongly.

I was just glancing through some of the comments and the lyrics, and I noticed not very many people were trying to define what the creature fear was. I would really love to hear some feedback on that.

The first thought that popped into my head was that the creature fear was love itself, but as I looked further into the song, I noticed that wasn't entirely correct. The second thing I thought was that the creature fear was the exact opposite of love, or the expectation not to be loved. I think this fit the song a little better, but I'm still not finding a definition that clicks the way I want it to. Not that that particularly bothers me because this song is beautiful and I get very emotional listening to it regardless. But, it might be nice to hear what other people think.

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andifroid
10-03-2009

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Does anyone have any ideas about the typing sound in this track (studio, not live)? Just before the 2nd chorus, it sounds like key board clicks. I have my own ideas, but I'm curious to see what other people think about it.



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geeginger
10-16-2009

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i would say that this song is personal, definitely, and is about this savagery of man. it talks so much about reforming and having laws; it seems like it's about the fear we have of living without rules, in a way. it's the fear of trusting people, especially after they've hurt us. it's the fear of being exposed to the world, instead of hiding away from it all.
that's how i see it, at least.

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only4you3288
21 hr 28 min ago

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i think it's two good friends who start to have feelings for eachother but they are both tiptoeing. she pulls back when he goes for it, but i think they hook up and are then confused about where they stand. now they are afraid they ruined a great friendship and they are afraid of what happens in they break up so they try to go back to the way things were and they can't but neither of them will admit it.

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