"These Are My Twisted Words" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It was leaked via BitTorrent on 12 August 2009, possibly by the band, and released on 17 August as a free download from the Radiohead website.

Matthew Schnipper of the Fader described "These Are My Twisted Words" as a "simple song" with "a plodding, stubborn forward spirit". It opens with a motorik beat from drummer Phil Selway before Thom Yorke's vocal enters. Daniel Kreps of Rolling Stone noted a krautrock influence, likening the song to the In Rainbows track "Weird Fishes / Arpeggi".

On 12 August 2009, the song was leaked via on the tracker What.CD. A text file included in the torrent file contained ASCII art, a cryptic poem and a reference to a release date of 17 August. Commentators including the Guardian and Rolling Stone speculated that Radiohead had leaked the song themselves following the unconventional pay-what-you-want release of their seventh album In Rainbows (2007).

On 17 August 2009, Radiohead released "These Are My Twisted Words" as a free download from the Radiohead site or via a torrent hosted by Mininova. The download included several pieces of artwork by Yorke and longtime Radiohead collaborator Stanley Donwood, with the suggestion to print the images on tracing paper and put "in an order that pleases you."

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