Radiohead Say True Love Waits



       
       Radiohead have a new album out,  A Moon Shaped Pool. Released just this May, the album, typical of Radiohead, is great and Thom Yorke’s voice remains as haunting, distinct and gorgeous as ever. Curiously, the album tracks include “True Love Waits,” a song that’s been quite around for many years, and was allegedly first performed by the band as far back as 1995.

       After that, the song, inexplicably,  failed to land a part in any of Radiohead’s succeeding studio albums.

       A fan favorite, one of my fave Radiohead tunes and a stirringly beautiful song, “True Love Waits”  speaks of the things a true love can do.  This is my interpretation of the song: the song is sung from both the male and female POVs, the first stanza is from the female POV, where she says she’s ready to  forget all her beliefs and even dress like a child to please her partner.

       The second stanza is from a male perpective where he says that he’s been thoroughly distracted without her and that he almost can’t do anything now and that life’s just passing him by and that he badly misses her smile and her beautiful hands.

       The third stanza is both from their POVs, where they compare their love to a (real) boy’s love for his parents which remained steadfast even as his parents abandoned him in their house to go on a vacation for a week, leaving him with only lollipops and crisps to eat.

       See what love can do? Yes, it was invented to torture everyone. Do yourself a favor and try not to fall in love. Just kidding. Or am I?

"True Love Waits"
I'll drown my beliefs
To have your babies
I'll dress like your niece
And wash your swollen feet
Just don't leave
Don't leave

I'm not living
I'm just killing time
Your tiny hands
Your crazy-kitten smile
Just don't leave
Don't leave

And true love waits
In haunted attics
And true love lives
On lollipops and crisps
Just don't leave
Don't leave

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