Despite whatever sense of personal animus one might perceive in co-writer Rick Nielsen’s expressed opinions below, the song doesn’t really rank as the worst Cheap Trick song by the numbers. When released, it peaked at #36 on the 1984 Mainstream Rock Songs. Billboard lists one Cheap Trick song that m...
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Just like the one that got away
So close and yet so far
I threw my hook into the water
I nearly caught her
How bizzare, now
[I'm up the creek]
Though I have lost a little ground
[I'm up the creek]
I know that time is on my side
[I'm up the creek]
Though you have pulled the plug on me
[I'm up the creek]
There's more than one fish in the sea
I'm not about to let it be
I know that I'm up the creek
Hey, hey
The foreign legions always there. I need a holiday
Daydream in the desert, with no pressure, that's the way, cause
[I'm up the creek]
Though I have lost a little ground
[I'm up the creek]
I know that time is on my side
[I'm up the creek]
Though you have pulled the plug on me
[I'm up the creek]
There more than one fish in the sea
I'm not about to let it be
I know that I'm up the creek
[I'm up the creek]
Without a paddle
[I'm up the creek]
But that don't matter at all
[No matter at all]
No matter at all
[No matter at all]
[I'm up the creek]
Without a paddle
[I'm up the creek]
I'm ready to battle it all
[Don't battle it all]
[Don't battle it all]
Battle it all
[Don't battle it all]
Oh
Hey, hey
Iiiiiiiiiiii'm up the creek
Iiiiiiiiiiii'm up the creek
[Iiiiiiiiiiii'm up the creek]
Here I go! You want to go?
[Iiiiiiiiiiii'm up the creek]
Help me! Help me! Help me!
[Iiiiiiiiiiii I'm up the creek]
[Iiiiiiiiiiii'm up the creek]
Watch it! Wow!
[Iiiiiiiiiiii'm up the creek]
[Iiiiiiiiiiii'm up the creek]
Up the Creek was written by Rick Nielsen & Randy Bishop.
Up the Creek was produced by Spencer Proffer.
While it is admittedly subtle, co-writer Rick Nielsen lets slip ever so slightly some of his feelings about this song and the movie that it accompanied in this 1997 interview with The AV Club. (See if you can spot it):
O: What about “Up The Creek”?
Now that was a bad song! I co-wrote that… No, wai...