Look around, and you will see
This world is full of creeps like me
You look surprised, you shouldn’t be
This world is full of creeps like me
Lyle’s late ’80s/early ’90s approach to his work had a huge impact on the way I view writing. He once said in an interview that there was something inherently satisfying about pairing richly orchestrated, “legit” music with absurdly contrasting lyrics… he was HiLoBrow long before it became hip, and it gave him lots of creative room to shift seamlessly from the funny to the macabre to the romantic, often within the same song.
Creeps Like Me isn’t the ideal example of his approach (that would be Here I Am from 1989’s Lyle Lovett and His Large Band), but it does make a nice theme song for this blog.