This song is about feelings of discontent with who you are as a person, and struggling to find your identity. The song chimes "I don't belong here" and "I'm a creep", which speak to the idea that the subject is having trouble dealing with the social environment they are in, making them feel like a creep. The story told about someone who is "So fucking special", and "just like an angel", isn't just a reference to feelings of unrequited love, and/or the pains of not always being able to have what you want. However, it is an allegory for how the subject sees everyone in the world as more special than himself, and sees that they all have places to fit into, which he cannot seem to find for himself. The subject wants to be like these people that he sees around him in society and as a result lists off his wants, ultimately realizing that basically he just wishes he had a place just as everyone around him seems to.
@thebirdie I had to make an account just to say that this is exactly what I get from the song, because that is how I feel exactly. Whenever I listen to the song, I feel like every single word is the way I feel, and I realize that while it sounds like longing for someone that is out of their league, it is really just how they feel about everybody. The feeling of shame and disgust at ones self for not being as good as a regular human being. The feeling that they are in a world of angels, and...
@thebirdie I had to make an account just to say that this is exactly what I get from the song, because that is how I feel exactly. Whenever I listen to the song, I feel like every single word is the way I feel, and I realize that while it sounds like longing for someone that is out of their league, it is really just how they feel about everybody. The feeling of shame and disgust at ones self for not being as good as a regular human being. The feeling that they are in a world of angels, and that they are nothing.
@thebirdie
This was a deep analytical interpretation, and I can totally see it as you've laid it out.
See, sometimes I get stumped, and I thought it was about someone who died and is in heaven and doesn't think he belongs there because he's autistic or has some impairment where people have shunned him his whole life. Silly me
@thebirdie
This was a deep analytical interpretation, and I can totally see it as you've laid it out.
See, sometimes I get stumped, and I thought it was about someone who died and is in heaven and doesn't think he belongs there because he's autistic or has some impairment where people have shunned him his whole life. Silly me
@thebirdie
I agree with most of your statements; however, I would guess (maybe even bet $$) that Radiohead intended a more broad exposure of "the society" in which such "creeps" might be created than to tell the (somewhat more mundane) story of how a person of lower status in such a society would respond. To me, the suggestion of sadness inherent in the narrator's apparent self-loathing is less important than the consistently exaggerated (and likely sarcastically portrayed) heights of high level members of the narrator's society. There is nothing specifically making a romantic connection, so I think it's valid...
@thebirdie
I agree with most of your statements; however, I would guess (maybe even bet $$) that Radiohead intended a more broad exposure of "the society" in which such "creeps" might be created than to tell the (somewhat more mundane) story of how a person of lower status in such a society would respond. To me, the suggestion of sadness inherent in the narrator's apparent self-loathing is less important than the consistently exaggerated (and likely sarcastically portrayed) heights of high level members of the narrator's society. There is nothing specifically making a romantic connection, so I think it's valid to suggest that the problem being stated is that the "society" involved has ostracized and alienated the narrator. Why? Apparently, the narrator believes, "I don't belong here." But is that because the narrator really is self-denigrating? Or because the society leading to his/her situation is actually the accused? Personally, I think it's the latter. The "creep" is just stuck because he/she lives in a stupid world that fails to value things properly, causing inappropriately dramatic social barriers that confound natural human responses (like love and appreciation of beauty), and may even sometimes twist them into ugly anti-social responses.
This song is about feelings of discontent with who you are as a person, and struggling to find your identity. The song chimes "I don't belong here" and "I'm a creep", which speak to the idea that the subject is having trouble dealing with the social environment they are in, making them feel like a creep. The story told about someone who is "So fucking special", and "just like an angel", isn't just a reference to feelings of unrequited love, and/or the pains of not always being able to have what you want. However, it is an allegory for how the subject sees everyone in the world as more special than himself, and sees that they all have places to fit into, which he cannot seem to find for himself. The subject wants to be like these people that he sees around him in society and as a result lists off his wants, ultimately realizing that basically he just wishes he had a place just as everyone around him seems to.
@thebirdie I had to make an account just to say that this is exactly what I get from the song, because that is how I feel exactly. Whenever I listen to the song, I feel like every single word is the way I feel, and I realize that while it sounds like longing for someone that is out of their league, it is really just how they feel about everybody. The feeling of shame and disgust at ones self for not being as good as a regular human being. The feeling that they are in a world of angels, and...
@thebirdie I had to make an account just to say that this is exactly what I get from the song, because that is how I feel exactly. Whenever I listen to the song, I feel like every single word is the way I feel, and I realize that while it sounds like longing for someone that is out of their league, it is really just how they feel about everybody. The feeling of shame and disgust at ones self for not being as good as a regular human being. The feeling that they are in a world of angels, and that they are nothing.
@thebirdie This was a deep analytical interpretation, and I can totally see it as you've laid it out. See, sometimes I get stumped, and I thought it was about someone who died and is in heaven and doesn't think he belongs there because he's autistic or has some impairment where people have shunned him his whole life. Silly me
@thebirdie This was a deep analytical interpretation, and I can totally see it as you've laid it out. See, sometimes I get stumped, and I thought it was about someone who died and is in heaven and doesn't think he belongs there because he's autistic or has some impairment where people have shunned him his whole life. Silly me
@thebirdie I agree with most of your statements; however, I would guess (maybe even bet $$) that Radiohead intended a more broad exposure of "the society" in which such "creeps" might be created than to tell the (somewhat more mundane) story of how a person of lower status in such a society would respond. To me, the suggestion of sadness inherent in the narrator's apparent self-loathing is less important than the consistently exaggerated (and likely sarcastically portrayed) heights of high level members of the narrator's society. There is nothing specifically making a romantic connection, so I think it's valid...
@thebirdie I agree with most of your statements; however, I would guess (maybe even bet $$) that Radiohead intended a more broad exposure of "the society" in which such "creeps" might be created than to tell the (somewhat more mundane) story of how a person of lower status in such a society would respond. To me, the suggestion of sadness inherent in the narrator's apparent self-loathing is less important than the consistently exaggerated (and likely sarcastically portrayed) heights of high level members of the narrator's society. There is nothing specifically making a romantic connection, so I think it's valid to suggest that the problem being stated is that the "society" involved has ostracized and alienated the narrator. Why? Apparently, the narrator believes, "I don't belong here." But is that because the narrator really is self-denigrating? Or because the society leading to his/her situation is actually the accused? Personally, I think it's the latter. The "creep" is just stuck because he/she lives in a stupid world that fails to value things properly, causing inappropriately dramatic social barriers that confound natural human responses (like love and appreciation of beauty), and may even sometimes twist them into ugly anti-social responses.