Reviews for True Love Waits Lyrics

Well to be honnest i'm a young parent. And what I hear in this song is not about unrequited love or abandoned child.

What I hear is :
Verse 1
the renouncement of a life style to become a family,
do anything for your loved one,
help her during pregnancy

Chorus.
Pregnancy can be very hard on some women and can put a couple through hardship.

Verse 2.
wether its about the nine months to wait or the few years as a baby or toddler I don't know but you kinda stop your life and put yourself aside for your child, waiting for him/her to grow up so you can be yourself again. And the cuteness of the baby is the only thing that keep you from breaking down.

Chorus
Parenting is hard stick on.

verse 3

and while you are waiting for your child to grow up, your couple awaits, and because it's true love, you keep it in a corner of your mind, but at the age you left it. So your true love, who was in his first years, like a child, remains a child, until you open the door for it again, or you let it die.

I might be wrong but to me that's what the song is about.

You don't have to be a pessimistic to assume something behind the actual words in this song. You do however need to be extremly naive to rule out the possibility.

I am not even close to getting to the bottom of this song, but this is a song I only listen to when depressed, and it's never for comfort. The mood in this song does in no way imply perfect, healthy love.

Sorry that doesn't live up to your naive and sugercoated standards.

You are all so pessimistic and ruined. This is love. When you lose that person, you are whiny and sad and desperate sounding. Sorry that doesn't live up to your intellectual standards. But that is it.

I dont think Thom is fully honest about what this song is about or why he wrote it. Just my opinion, but if it was indeed anger that fueled this song, then the lyrics might be a reflection of an "ideal situation" be it cliche or not. It doesn't matter how he describes love, but more that he is using it as a topic. I write songs as a hobby, and when people ask me what they're about, I dont spill my guts, I usually bullshit or provide more depth than necessary. Sometimes ur lonely, sometimes ur angry, sometimes ur happy, etc.. but when people ask, u might lie

This song pokes fun at people who perceive "true love" to be a meatball-processed version of Hollywooden romance or something corny like that. Just take at the look at some of the mawkish things our narrator says he'd do: Some are redundant and cliche "I'll drown my beliefs. To have your babies." Some are silly and childish, "I'll dress like your niece. And wash your swollen feet." Then he cranks up the whine-o-meter with the pathetic, sappy wail "Just don't leave. Don't leave."

"I'm not living
I'm just killing time"

More of that my-existence-is meaningless-without-your-gentle-arms-wrapped-around-me saccharine crap.

"Your tiny hands
Your crazy kitten smile"

Or "I know true love because I can compare your appearance and gestures to baby-like, animal-cute things, and airheads fell for my sweet talk before so I hope you do, too, oh wait you don't."

"And true love waits
In haunted attics
And true love lives
On lollipops and crisps"

Just found out about the story behind these lyrics, and I think there's a lot more to the literal meaning of what is said. A child is supposed to be the eternal bond between a man and a woman, a product of "true love" and the whole reference to the news story makes the lyrics all the more blisteringly painful and ironic when our "true love" finds himself in a damp and dark attic with only sweets and crisps to keep him alive. Although at first glance we seem to be looking at something sweet being said, the lyrics are actually a sarcastic, false, and simplistic version of the story that is stripped of all horrific details.

Were this song from their 2007 album "In Rainbows" I wouldn't find it to be that negative, but this was written back in the OK Computer era by a man who used to be a very angry, cynical Oxford lad.

I can relate to this song, and I don't think the lyrics are obscure at all. For whom you love, you will do anything just so they will be with you. In my case, she eventually did left, but at lease I have this song.

This song epitomoises the melodrama of unrequited love. I think Thom is trying at once to point out the immaturity, as well as, the painful realization that our concept of "true love" can be fickle. He uses many childlike symbols- dressing like your neice, tiny hands, kitten smile, lolipops and crisps to create a sense of immaturity in the narrator. Even the refrain "Just don't leave, don't leave" brings to mind a child whining out for a loved one to stay with him a little longer. It is painful because the emotions, though naive, are innocent and raw. He has not yet learned that there are no ghosts which haunt the attic, that nothing can survive forever on lolipops and crisps. True love is a romantic notion- all things grow and change and nothing is really forever. The beauty in the pain of this discovery is what tares at your heart strings.

The song is about the insecurity of committing to and having a relationship of unrequited love(love that is not openly reciprocated), hence a leap of faith on that persons part.

Verse 1..
I'll drown my beliefs
To have your babies

Is certainly not the thoughts of a child, abandoned or not.

The "On lollipops and crisps" quote I think is a personal British quote about sacrifice in the sense the person is prepared to live without luxury, accepting a lower quality of life just to be with the person being sung about.

He could have chosen any other combination of low staple/quality food to live on.

The "In haunted attics" quote is a metaphor for where you would be if you did not make the leap/sacrifice(financial or other) to be with that person.

Verse 2..

I'm not living
I'm just killing time
Your tiny hands
Your crazy kitten smile

I think is the relationships natural progression to having children, waiting for them to arrive.

All reinforced by the lines...

Just don't leave
Don't leave

The singers/partners insecurity about being left/losing that person they love unrelentingly.

Regards
Tony

To me, this is about unrequited love. I'll wait for you, I'll be whoever you want me to be, just love me back the way I love you . . . it's a sad song to me. The person can never be loved equally, because they will never be loved for who they are.

For the person who said the song was about a real life incident of a child abandoned. That seems to only apply to the last verse. Possibly the 2nd verse. However the 1st verse doesn't seem to make sense at all.

I personally think its about someone who starts off thinking that doing anythinng, like "drowning my own beliefs" or degrading yourself by "washing swollen feet" just to feel wanted/loved. The to realise as Thom says "I'm not living/ I'm killing time" sort of says it all. However I really love the last verse:

And true love waits
In haunted attics
And true love lives
On lollipops and crisps

All i see when I hear this is photographs of a "happy" couple locked away in an attic for someone to find and think that, that is a happy couple, and true love waits if you keep it locked away. Also the part about "lollipops and crisps" suggests a naive childlike love, when everything was simple.

Thats my thoughts anyway

i don't get it how nobody sees the sarcasm in this song.
"I'll drown my beliefs to have your babies. I'll dress like your niece & wash your swollen feet. Just don't leave". This is about how people forget their own ideals & beliefs & mold themselves to suit the needs of those they love, only because they are afraid of being left alone.
"true love lives in haunted attics, & true love lives on lollipops & crisps." this refers to the illusion of true love & what movies, books & songs make of it... in fact true love doesn't even exist, it's just a bunch of children's stories.
This is Radiohead, they don't write positive sunshine & roses love songs man!

Pretty much boy and girl meet, fall in love, something separates them and their one shot at making some beautiful work and they're forever torn apart, never knowing what potential they would've had if they were still together. That's how I see it at least, they only had one life together and it was as if fate brought the two together. nothing should ever come between the chemistry of two people, it's murder.

actually the song was written about a little boy in england whos parents abandoned him to go on holiday and he was discovered by authorities after a long time in his house surviving on loliops and crisps...

The whole reason I love Radiohead is because their artist and lyrics can be interpreted different ways. I feel like i had a different experience where I loved a girl and she loved me but because she was mormon and I wasn't her parents basically 6 months into it ended the relationship, by taking away everything she had till she gave in. As far as I know she was true love to me, and I still love her and she still loves me but we can't be together...Romeo and juliet story?...thats this song