Theme
Songs about unrequited longing
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Radiohead
Creep (Acoustic)
A confession of inadequacy directed at someone the singer idealises from a distance, sung by a narrator who cannot believe he deserves to be in the same room
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BIG Naughty
Vancouver
A songwriter discovers, six years on, that he never actually moved past the person who moved to Vancouver, and that everything he writes is still a letter to her