True Love Waits

Album: I Might Be Wrong - Live Recordings (2001)
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  • 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 Writer/s: Edward John O'Brien, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Philip James Selway, Thomas Edward Yorke
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 4

  • Truelovewaits from Cambridge I know what Thom Yorke said about the Lollipops line… but I think this news article is much more likely to be the real source of inspiration:

    https://bit.ly/30VBQQB

    It’s about a boy whose mother dies, and he survives on lollipops and crisps until she is discovered and he is saved. He is convinced she is just sleeping until people arrive to lead him away. This fits the themes of the song, and the article was published at about the right time…
  • Oldpink from Farmland, InMagnificent lyrics, and Yorke's vocals perfectly convey them.
  • Bernard from Auckland, New ZealandA small correction, the release dat for this song was in the year 2003 in June
  • Bernard from Auckland, New Zealandthis is such a nice song,
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