True Love Waits (track)
by Radiohead
Year: 2016
From the album A Moon Shaped Pool (track #11)
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True Love Waits appears on the following album(s) by Radiohead:
- I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (track #8) (2001)
- A Moon Shaped Pool (track #11) (this album) (2016)
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abit repetitive but so beautiful. another exemple of this band's choice to put the saddest song at the end of an ablum. like kid a with motion picture sound track, in raibows with video tape, the bends with street spirit fade out...
This song is so powerful, I can't even find the words to express it. Whenever I hear it, I'm just overcome with emotions. This, my friends, is ART.
I know a lot of diehard Radiohead fans are ambivalent toward this track because they'd grown to love the stripped-down live version, but this is one of the saddest and most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
After more than 20 years, TLW finally received a studio recording, and I think it is more than a worthy one.
*sniff* I-I'm not crying, y-you're crying...
makes you fink...
This is by far the saddest song I have ever heard.
corenfro 04/19/2017 21:29 | #189542
Good to have a song - with few layers driven by a monophonic piano line and Thom's vocals with minimal background instrumentation - as an album closer to "come down" from the rest of the majestic, haunting, deep, layered, and challenging album.
This song absolutely destroyed me.
Too personal for me, my ex is named Kat and we always loved to spend time with her 3 year old niece Caroline.
The specific lines
"Your tiny hands
Your crazy kitten smile"
caused me to literally break down for thirty straight minutes
I can't honestly justify calling this song anything besides a masterpiece because anything less would be selling it far too short
100/100
marklg 09/14/2016 15:23 | #174957
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SaulCortes1992 06/27/2016 06:21 | #169974
STUDIO VERSION>>>>>>LIVE VERSION
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