Teenage Creature

If I ran a game store I would play Teenage Creature by Lord Luther.

I have days when people look at me like I'm a mutant. How, then, must Lord Luther feel? It seems he's plagued with every ailment known to make someone into a monster. Teenage Creature follows the plight of a teen boy who polymorphs from one Universal Monster into another as he tries to get girls to notice him. The poor fellow can't help but belch out spooky laughs and catcalls to make him even more of a turn off. The song is a 1958 doo-wop tune sometimes credited to Lord Luther and other times credited to "Lord Luther with The King’s Men". It plays like homage to horror movies of old. The song was originally released on 45. Nowadays it's typically found on Halloween compilation albums. I think that the playfulness of the song really unshackles it from being a seasonal song. I would certainly play it year-round in my game store, if I ran a game store.

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Teenage Creature lyrics

I was a teenage creature
I was a junior wolfman, at night there’s a werewolf moon
Come and hold my hairy hand down at the Black Lagoon

I was a teenage creature
I was a high school monster, a teenage Frankenstein
Let me take you in my arms and curse you one more time

Got a face like a dog, feet like a frog
I’m covered with a lizard scale
I got to cut a hole in my old blue jeans for my slimy tail

I was a teenage creature
I was a body snatcher, you’re so sweet agreeing
Do you think that you would dare go steady with The Thing?

I was a teenage creature
I was a teenage vampire, a rock and rolling ghoul
Won’t you let a Dracula walk you home from school?

Well I lived in a hole, I looked like a mole
A horrible sight to see
If you hear a growl I’m out on the prowl and hunting you for me

I was a teenage creature
I was a teenage spider and you’re a junior miss
So give a boy tarantula his very first kiss

I was a teenage creature
I was a teenage creature, I’m always scaring you
So point a stake straight at my heart, then darling drive it through

I was a teenage creature