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Artist: The Pretenders with Chrissie Hynde
Song: Creep
Album/ DVD: Isle of View
Version: -
by Radiohead (Yorke)
as sung by The Pretenders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pretenders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrissie_Hynde
on 'Isle of View' (1995) live acoustic concert:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=lML2N4xB9GU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Isle_of_View
The concert held at London's Jacob Street Studios was accompanied by the Duke Quartet.
AUTHOR:
Tab annotated by Richard Grosser (grosserr@gmail.com)
' Couldn't find any tab that authentically represented this translation of Thom Yorke's
track:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creep_(Radiohead_song).
See Footnotes #1 & #2.
TUNING:
Standard Tuning.
G =========== 320003
B =========== 224442
B7 =========== 224242
Bsus4 =========== 320003
C =========== 033210
Csus4 =========== 320003
Cm =========== 335543
Intro:
G B Bsus4 B C Csus4 C Cm
Verse 1:
CmWhen you were here Gbefore
CGouldn't look you in the Beye
YBou look like an Cangel
YCour skin makes me Csus4cry
Verse 2:
YCmou float like a Gfeather
InG a beautiful Bworld
I Bwish I was Cspecial
YCou're so fucking Csus4special
Chorus:
BCmut I'm a Gcreep,
IG'm a weirBdo
BWhat the hell B7am I doin' Chere?
C Csus4
I don't belong here
Verse 2:
ICm don't care if it Ghurts
IG wanna have contBrol
IB wanna perfect Cbody
IC want a perfect Csus4soul
Verse 3:
ICm want you to Gnotice
WGhen I'm not Baround
YBou're so fuckin' Cspecial
IC wish I was Csus4special....
Refrain:
SCmhe's runnin out... Gagain...
SGhe's running Bout,
SBh-e run, - run, run, - Crun...
Cru-n... Csus4
Verse 3:
WCmhatever makes you Ghappy
WGhatever you Bwant
YBou're so fucking Cspecial
IC wish I was Csus4special
BCmut I'm a Gcreep,
IG'm a weirBdo
WBhat the hell B7am I doin' Chere?
CI don't belong Csus4here
Outro:
CI don't belong Csus4here...
FOOTNOTES:
1. Weezer covered "Creep" during their 2008 Hootenanny Tour, with bassist Scott Shriner
lead vocals. Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo stated that the song was picked to cover
"it's incredible what they do with four chords, over and over."
2. Thom Yorke confirmed that when the song shifts from the verse to the chorus, Jonny
(Radiohead's bass player) plays three blasts of guitar noise ("dead notes" played by
fret-hand pressure and picking the strings). Greenwood said he did this because he did
like how quiet the song was; he explained, "So I hit the guitar hard - really hard". Ed
said, "That's the sound of Jonny trying to fuck the song up. He really didn't like it
first time we played it, so he tried spoiling it. And it made the song."