True Love Waits (song)
| "True Love Waits" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Radiohead | |
| from the album I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings and A Moon Shaped Pool | |
| Released | 12 November 2001 (I Might Be Wrong) 8 May 2016 (A Moon Shaped Pool) |
| Length |
5:02 (I Might Be Wrong) 4:43 (A Moon Shaped Pool) |
| Label |
Parlophone, Capitol (I Might Be Wrong) XL (A Moon Shaped Pool) |
| Songwriter(s) | Radiohead |
| Producer(s) | Nigel Godrich (A Moon Shaped Pool) |
"True Love Waits" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. Its lyrics address love, ageing, and abandonment. Radiohead first performed "True Love Waits" in 1995, and singer Thom Yorke performed it alone on acoustic guitar or Rhodes piano numerous times in the following years. The band and their producer Nigel Godrich attempted to record it for their albums OK Computer (1997), Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), but struggled to find an arrangement that satisfied them, and it became one of their most famous unreleased songs. A live recording from the Amnesiac tour was released on I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (2001).
In 2016, a studio version of "True Love Waits" was finally released as the closing track on Radiohead's ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, rearranged as a minimal piano ballad. Both versions of the song received positive reviews, and several critics felt the long wait made the studio version more powerful. Though it was not released as a single, "True Love Waits" entered the French SNEP and US Billboard Hot Rock Songs singles chart, peaking at 181 and 43 respectively.
Radiohead first performed "True Love Waits" in December 1995 in Brussels while touring for their second album, The Bends. The arrangement saw singer Thom Yorke on acoustic guitar accompanied by an "airy" keyboard melody. It was performed again several times in the following years, becoming a fan favourite and one of Radiohead's most famous unreleased songs.
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