Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
“Creep” is the fourth single from and seventh track on Stone Temple Pilot’s 1992 album Core.
According to bassist and co-writer of “Creep” Robert DeLeo:
Musically speaking I was thinking about a song along the lines of Heart of Gold by Neil Young, which is in the key of D-minor, the saddest key of...
[Verse 1]
Forward yesterday
Makes me wanna stay
What they said was real
Makes me wanna steal
Living under house
Guess I'm livin', I'm a mouse
Alls I gots is time
Got no meaning, just a rhyme
[Pre-Chorus]
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause I like to steal
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal, I like to steal
[Chorus]
I'm half the man I used to be
(This I feel as the dawn, it fades to gray)
Well, I'm half the man I used to be
(Well, this I feel as the dawn, it fades to gray)
Well, I'm half the man I used to be
(This I feel as the dawn, it fades to gray)
Well, I'm half the man I used to be
Half the man I used to be
[Verse 2]
Feelin' uninspired
Think I'll start a fire
Everybody run
Bobby's got a gun
"Think you're kinda neat"
Then she tells me I'm a creep
Friends don't mean a thing
Guess I'll leave it up to me
[Pre-Chorus]
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand
Guess I like to steal
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal, I like to steal
[Chorus]
I'm half the man I used to be
(And this I feel as the dawn, it fades to gray)
Well, I'm half the man I used to be
(And this I feel as the dawn, it fades to gray)
Well, I'm half the man I used to be
(Oh, this I feel as the dawn, it fades to gray)
Well, I'm half the man I used to be
Half the man I used to be
[Interlude]
(Half the man)
(Hey)
[Pre-Chorus]
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand
Guess I like to steal
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal, I like to steal
[Chorus]
I'm half the man I used to be
(Well, this I feel as the dawn, it fades to gray)
Well, I'm half the man I used to be
(Well, this I feel as the dawn, it fades to gray)
Well, I'm half the man I used to be
(For this I feel as the dawn, it fades to gray)
Well, I'm half the man I used to be
Half the man I used to be
Half the man I used to be
Creep was written by Scott Weiland & Robert De Leo.
Creep was produced by Brendan O’Brien.
Stone Temple Pilots released Creep on Tue Sep 29 1992.
Scott Weiland:
That’s just the idea of being a young person somewhere, caught between still being a kid and becoming a young man. It’s that youth apathy, that second-guessing yourself, not feeling like you fit in.