The fact that thom fucks up the lyrics of this song everytime he sings it proves how deeply thom is connected to this song, how much feel he puts to it... gets absolutely oblivious singing it.. he is a legend !
Usually, when I listen to songs like that, a urning love song with Radiohead or some other band, It stirs my emotions because I identify with the lyrics, in relations to my own life. But now when I listen to this performance, it stirs my emotions, because I empathize with Thom, how he felt when he wrote that song.
+Jean Luc Bergman I feel like i'm definitley in the minority, but it doesn't really work for me. Thom's voice sounds strained to hit the high notes and i found Daydreaming to be far more impactful to me. I dunno, i'm sure it'll grow on me though.
Well, I'm living proof that true love waits. Widowed at 35 due to cancer in a very troubled marriage, with both of us at fault. Four years later met someone else, and here it is five years later, and it's only getting stronger. She really is my True Love, and all those years of wandering, the guilt, and pain only serve to make it that much better now that I've found her.
@@mariacamargo4394 Doing great! The only thing is that she has spent the last eight months getting chemo because she came down with ovarian cancer. She just had her ending PET scan, and it showed nothing in her entire body. She'll be taking some inhibitors to stave off a recurrence of the cancer, but she feels much better now, especially since she has been off her chemo for two weeks now.
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns @PinkOld I'm so happy for you, I saw your comment and because it is from 7 years ago so I was curious to know how are you doing now. I hope she gets completely better soon, have a nice day :)
its such a great song because its like that'll be the day when I find true love, like true love doesn't even exist, we just want someone to stay so that we aren't forever lonely
when I got to see this live I was planning on recording but this song is to beautiful so I just held my girlfriends hand and had one of the best moments to date. thank you Thom.
this is the most precious momment in music's history, everything is perfect, his voice, his guitar, the audience, the scenario, him... lyrics I love you Thom, this song is my life, nothing in earth compares to this song
This song captures that slipping feeling, desperation when you can tell the love for you is fading or already gone your left with 2 roads fight to preserve the little pieces that still hold meaning and connect you or recognize the inevitable, that these pieces will also break down and you will further be resented for using them......and holding on longer will only hurt more, if you truly love that person, do not keep them if they don't want to be with you.... Let go and walk away for yourself
I love how the two versions of this song (the one they played live and the one on AMSP) have such different meanings. This version is almost that rare happy Radiohead song, a swearing declaration of love, while the new one is a defeated, empty shell of what could have been and is one of the saddest songs ever in light of what’s happened with Thom. It’s almost “God Only Knows”-like in its duality, with one half being a declaration of forever loving someone and the other half being a statement of desperate defeat, with no hope of redemption. Truly a masterpiece. This is, in my opinion, the best song Radiohead has ever done, because we get to briefly see the beating heart of the band, and it’s so tender and beautiful it feels that any more would be excess but it manages to have the perfect amount of everything
This song is heart breaking. "Just don't leave". In the mid-90s, it's about a young man finding love and clinging to his own desire to trust it. By 2018, it's the song of a heart-broken man who left the love of his life in her lowest hour, and couldn't summon the strength to be with her while she was dying. It was he who abandoned her in the end. The young lover, who as a child was left routinely in an attic, only understanding love to be the lollipops and crisps that a negligent parent uses to balm the relationship with their child. He discovers real love - and impetuously is willing to abandon himself, and drown his beliefs, in order to feel like he deserves it. The song is as self-conscious as the young man - it's desperate. "Don't leave" is a cry to the parents abandoning him to his loneliness, but also becomes the cry to the new lover he can't trust to stay around. True Love Waits, not only for the parents to return, but for a young man to develop a more mature understanding of what love should be. And she did wait for him. She waited for him to mature. She waited for him during countless world-wide tours. The mother of his children, and a formidable artist in her own right. In 2016, Rachel Owen dies. They agreed he couldn't be the supportive partner she needed and parted amicably just one year before she passed. Now, the refrain "Don't Leave" takes on a double meaning. A cry for the loved one lost forever. But, also a cry from the grave to him "Just don't leave" - and yet he did. Lament. Now he waits, but for what?
Out of all the songs that I could've found, it was this one. Some centuries ago on some bootleg music site, this song popped up. No idea who Radiohead was and after listening, I became an instant fan!
this song sounds like a small beam of hope in full storm of sadness, hopeless and helpless, when all you can do is watching and hoping, but somewhere deep in heart you know that it's helpless
True Love Waits is the song that brought me to Radiohead. First piece of the band that I ever listened to. Gave me a totally different feeling compared to the popular Creep, Fake Plastic Trees or High and Dry( those are also masterpieces tho). This is that one song about yearning for love and the lover that caught me crying in the middle of the night. We all crave for the unconditional, protective love that we once had when we were a child. And indeed, the way the man in the song is taking care of the girl he loves, is by treating her as a child. The crazy kitten smile, the tiny hands, the lollipops, the dress-like- your-niece, all speak about that kind of love. And there he is, trying to give all the love he could just to beg her not to leave. But yeah that's just how I depict it.
Thom, when asked how he came up with the line lollipops and crisps, " i read an article about a child who was between 5-8 yrs old who was left on his/her own for a week in a house when his parents left on hoilday and he lived on lollipops on crisps. true." (01/04/00) Thom also commented on the meaning of the line "I'll dress like your niece," saying "the difference between young and old when people start to dress sensible and act their age
Amazing thom yorke, you will know her 12 years from now. She is a big surprise in Israel. You are loved by God for your love to the Jewish people. God bless you!!💋
Esta canción casa vez que la escucho, me recuerda a ella. No había escuchado esta canción cuando estaba con ella, nunca se la dedique, pero parece que no memoria se la dedica a la distancia cada vez que escucho esta canción. No le dije no te vayas, pues no tenía el derecho para hacerlo, después de todo no hice todo lo que debía hacer para que me eligiera...pero de igual forma mi corazón grito en un silencio todo lo que está canción dice...y aún la recuerdo aunque ya no esté a mi lado.
thanks for watching and commenting... this is such an incredible gig. And this is the 3rd (!) encore of it - thom came out and did this song... the crowd is totally transfixed...
that comment captures all the emotions i went through when breaking up with my last girlfriend!! some times true love just won't wait and you have to move on!!! this song always reminds me of that!!
Thom: "a song that really didn't see much of a light of day for a long time and then.. sort of did but.. kind of needs to do it more" also Thom: proceeds to not release the song for another 13 years
@PimpBrovasTV no pro, I only mentioned it because 'Best of' albums can sometimes slip under the radar if you've collected a bands stuff since they started. Tracks like this can be enhanced by the imperfections of a live show and audience participation. Having said that when Thom is on his game the quality of a live performance can seem like it's produced in a recording studio.
I think it's just about the lengths the narrator would go to to have his true love with him at that very second - up to and including the impossible. "I'm not living - I'm just killing time."
I'll drown my beliefs To have you be in peace I'll dress like your niece To 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 And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps
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My fiance' danced to this song every morning, untill he passed away 11-28-12. This is the one thing I can do to still feel him touching me.
Karen Bosta four years on..how are you doing?
I just had my heart broken. I hope you’ve found strength, Karen 🌹
Karen Bosta ok
:( ♥
The fact that thom fucks up the lyrics of this song everytime he sings it proves how deeply thom is connected to this song, how much feel he puts to it... gets absolutely oblivious singing it.. he is a legend !
cool to see radiohead is appreciated in india too where appreciating good music doesn't go beyond sucking up to coldplay nowdays
India India India here
Need need need friends with good music taste
Nah not every time
I love how with this song, the whole audience just shuts the fuck up and watches
"i'm not living, i'm just killing time" that verse is like an ice bucket on the face.
MrGalgo87 like a ton of bricks
Don't leave. Don't leave.
Ouch, really hits home
i know they have a ton of fans but i’ll never understand how so many people just don’t understand how important radiohead really is.
i shared this line when i stood up at my 1 year of being clean & sober… because that’s how i had felt so long .
now 12yrs ago 😉✌🏼
i'm happy to be sad.
Pagey91 That's what a guitar in a major key plus sad lyrics will do for you.
Pagey91 the most accurate comment I've read.
This song was always meant to be performed live. It's art.
Christopher I think radiohead doesn't need any more money mate...
Me too, at least I can feel something.
Usually, when I listen to songs like that, a urning love song with Radiohead or some other band, It stirs my emotions because I identify with the lyrics, in relations to my own life. But now when I listen to this performance, it stirs my emotions, because I empathize with Thom, how he felt when he wrote that song.
This is the song that realy didn't see much of light of a day for a long time, and it sort of did, but kind of needs to do it more.
nblBer such a thom thing to say
still accurate
this song makes me cry.
Thom's voice is simply amazing and beautiful.
hands down.
when you can't tell her that you love her,so you ended up listening to this all the time
i did... :(
How the fuck...
But I'd rather live in denial that I don't, and the fact that I really don't compliments my decision.
and mine just left, without telling her the words ‘I love you’.
...when you can't tell and show the man you love him...The same. Sad...It hurts like hell.
This is my favorite song of all time. Has been for many years now.
+Jean Luc Bergman I feel like i'm definitley in the minority, but it doesn't really work for me. Thom's voice sounds strained to hit the high notes and i found Daydreaming to be far more impactful to me. I dunno, i'm sure it'll grow on me though.
+Nathan Baldassero (referring to A Moon Shaped Pool version)
Nathan, I'm in agreement with you, this just leaves me wanting something more. Definitely not in my top 50 radiohead songs
So happy to have this on the new album
This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen and listened and felt in my whole life.
"im not klivin, not livinnn" lol
T____T
Happens to the best of us
Thomas is so amazing, one of the greatest artist of the millennium.
Well, I'm living proof that true love waits.
Widowed at 35 due to cancer in a very troubled marriage, with both of us at fault.
Four years later met someone else, and here it is five years later, and it's only getting stronger.
She really is my True Love, and all those years of wandering, the guilt, and pain only serve to make it that much better now that I've found her.
How are you doing now??
@@mariacamargo4394 Doing great!
The only thing is that she has spent the last eight months getting chemo because she came down with ovarian cancer.
She just had her ending PET scan, and it showed nothing in her entire body.
She'll be taking some inhibitors to stave off a recurrence of the cancer, but she feels much better now, especially since she has been off her chemo for two weeks now.
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns @PinkOld I'm so happy for you, I saw your comment and because it is from 7 years ago so I was curious to know how are you doing now. I hope she gets completely better soon, have a nice day :)
@@mariacamargo4394 Thank you so much!
Everything about this performance is Beautiful, from the vocals, the guitar playing to the sincere greeting in the end.
This song still pokes me right in the heart in 2024
its such a great song because its like that'll be the day when I find true love, like true love doesn't even exist, we just want someone to stay so that we aren't forever lonely
I agree and I think realizing that is essential to a long term relationship
hahahah watching 'til the end i understand. The "HQ" in the video title is not about the video quality, but the band itself.
I could watch it even if it had 1 pixel on the video. Thom Yorke is the Jesus of music.
i think it's about the audio quality? which is unexpectedly good compared to the poor video quality haha
A little tip
HD: image
HQ: sound
My tears cry for more.
when I got to see this live I was planning on recording but this song is to beautiful so I just held my girlfriends hand and had one of the best moments to date. thank you Thom.
My soul cries out for more.
This makes me cry so hard even when im not even sad.. ahgggg
this is the most precious momment in music's history, everything is perfect, his voice, his guitar, the audience, the scenario, him... lyrics
I love you Thom, this song is my life, nothing in earth compares to this song
There's a fragility in Thom's voice that I feel is unmatched on the live and amsp versions
Goose bumps all over and a tear in the eye - every version every time
aduh abang thom, masih merinding kudengar lagumu ini bertahun2
This song captures that
slipping feeling, desperation when you can tell
the love for you is fading or already gone
your left with 2 roads
fight to preserve the little pieces that still hold meaning and connect you
or recognize the inevitable, that these pieces will also break down and you will further be resented for using them......and holding on longer will only hurt more,
if you truly love that person, do not keep them if they don't want to be with you....
Let go and walk away for yourself
I love how the two versions of this song (the one they played live and the one on AMSP) have such different meanings. This version is almost that rare happy Radiohead song, a swearing declaration of love, while the new one is a defeated, empty shell of what could have been and is one of the saddest songs ever in light of what’s happened with Thom. It’s almost “God Only Knows”-like in its duality, with one half being a declaration of forever loving someone and the other half being a statement of desperate defeat, with no hope of redemption. Truly a masterpiece. This is, in my opinion, the best song Radiohead has ever done, because we get to briefly see the beating heart of the band, and it’s so tender and beautiful it feels that any more would be excess but it manages to have the perfect amount of everything
This song? Happy? Lol you must be deaf.
125barrato acoustic one is definitely more happy not that sad at all
@@Matthew-zv8qe you must be deaf.
125barrato still sad just less sad with hints of hope and some emotions which are not sad
How can I write songs to get love like this?😔
the cute little stuff up and recovery at the start of the second verse is so cute lol.
I'm not living, I'm just killing time - TY
This song is heart breaking. "Just don't leave".
In the mid-90s, it's about a young man finding love and clinging to his own desire to trust it.
By 2018, it's the song of a heart-broken man who left the love of his life in her lowest hour, and couldn't summon the strength to be with her while she was dying. It was he who abandoned her in the end.
The young lover, who as a child was left routinely in an attic, only understanding love to be the lollipops and crisps that a negligent parent uses to balm the relationship with their child. He discovers real love - and impetuously is willing to abandon himself, and drown his beliefs, in order to feel like he deserves it. The song is as self-conscious as the young man - it's desperate. "Don't leave" is a cry to the parents abandoning him to his loneliness, but also becomes the cry to the new lover he can't trust to stay around. True Love Waits, not only for the parents to return, but for a young man to develop a more mature understanding of what love should be.
And she did wait for him. She waited for him to mature. She waited for him during countless world-wide tours. The mother of his children, and a formidable artist in her own right.
In 2016, Rachel Owen dies.
They agreed he couldn't be the supportive partner she needed and parted amicably just one year before she passed.
Now, the refrain "Don't Leave" takes on a double meaning.
A cry for the loved one lost forever.
But, also a cry from the grave to him
"Just don't leave"
- and yet he did.
Lament.
Now he waits, but for what?
Damn
Out of all the songs that I could've found, it was this one. Some centuries ago on some bootleg music site, this song popped up. No idea who Radiohead was and after listening, I became an instant fan!
I loved you then and I love you just as much now. I will always love you, always and forever.
Forever and ever a fucking genious 😍
+Jean Luc Bergman Of course 😍
..for me Thom Yorke is the best singer/song writer that has ever lived...genius!
Only Thom York whit all his lyrics, can intensify my feelings. :(
Great !
In this live recording it definitely sounds like "I'll drown my beliefs, to have your babies."
One of the most beautiful lyrics, fate.
I think i got something in my eye
I got feelings in my eyes, ouch
Mommy thom yorke iz makin mi cri!
same here... haha
good night thom, and thank YOU very much
Prolly my fav, or second fav, cant decide on this or Fake Plastic Trees
Yes for me it’s between this and High and Dry
@@NicholasStulga another great classic :)
this song sounds like a small beam of hope in full storm of sadness, hopeless and helpless, when all you can do is watching and hoping, but somewhere deep in heart you know that it's helpless
True Love Waits is the song that brought me to Radiohead. First piece of the band that I ever listened to. Gave me a totally different feeling compared to the popular Creep, Fake Plastic Trees or High and Dry( those are also masterpieces tho). This is that one song about yearning for love and the lover that caught me crying in the middle of the night. We all crave for the unconditional, protective love that we once had when we were a child. And indeed, the way the man in the song is taking care of the girl he loves, is by treating her as a child. The crazy kitten smile, the tiny hands, the lollipops, the dress-like- your-niece, all speak about that kind of love. And there he is, trying to give all the love he could just to beg her not to leave. But yeah that's just how I depict it.
18 people (so far) haven't got their heart broken. Poor souls.
the song broke mine
Oh really? I guess we should envy those guys =/
omg so beautiful that i cant stop crying ♥
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa thanks for posting this!! most talented musician ever!!
beautiful and moving
Thom, when asked how he came up with the line lollipops and crisps, " i read an article about a child who was between 5-8 yrs old who was left on his/her own for a week in a house when his parents left on hoilday and he lived on lollipops on crisps. true." (01/04/00)
Thom also commented on the meaning of the line "I'll dress like your niece," saying "the difference between young and old when people start to dress sensible and act their age
Absolute brilliance!
“Beauty will save the world” Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+Karma Kombover I guess that the meaning of beauty is art.
@@natabirulite And art is personal. Soul digging expression will save the world.
But from whom
@@grocerewe1935 Ourselves
Almost 2020 and I'm still listening...
such a beautiful song
Sad to be happy!! Love it
Probably one of the best songs thom has ever made and somehow he has kept the lyrical sanity true to the emotion of the track
It's impossible to listen to something more beautiful than this.... I can die now!...
....BRilliant. Thank you for posting:)
moon shaped pool version is cool but this is how this song is meant to sound - "just, don't leave"
Baldanders Rocks ok
AMSP ends with Tinker, Tailor for me.
Idk i love the very melancholy mood the piano gives to the song
The Minidisk MD111 version is great.
Baldanders Rocks no the moon shaped pool version is much better
oh, you are so welcome! Makes me want to upload some more rarities... or videos for which only poor quality uploads were avail at the time...
no one can stop fate.
No one can stop time too. Please take me back to the 90's!
Amazing thom yorke, you will know her 12 years from now. She is a big surprise in Israel. You are loved by God for your love to the Jewish people. God bless you!!💋
For me, this is about not being alone and love melancholic -whatever that means-, for me, again. Great song.
AMAZING! thank you
Thank you
Pretty much sums up how I feel right now. Beautiful and breaking my heart.. 8¬(
dio mio, cosa possono fare un uomo e una chitarra
Esta canción casa vez que la escucho, me recuerda a ella. No había escuchado esta canción cuando estaba con ella, nunca se la dedique, pero parece que no memoria se la dedica a la distancia cada vez que escucho esta canción. No le dije no te vayas, pues no tenía el derecho para hacerlo, después de todo no hice todo lo que debía hacer para que me eligiera...pero de igual forma mi corazón grito en un silencio todo lo que está canción dice...y aún la recuerdo aunque ya no esté a mi lado.
thanks for watching and commenting... this is such an incredible gig. And this is the 3rd (!) encore of it - thom came out and did this song... the crowd is totally transfixed...
Just amazing
el verdadero amor no destruye; el verdadero amor construye; love this song... is so amazing; anybody could write best song¡
This is dedicated to my love... Forever beyond eternity.... I love you always. Xoxoxoxo
aw Thom wot-the-lyrics Yorke is my favorite Thom
'I'm not c-living'
I'd be waiting forever.
that comment captures all the emotions i went through when breaking up with my last girlfriend!! some times true love just won't wait and you have to move on!!! this song always reminds me of that!!
"i'm not living... i'm just killing time..."
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Fantastic.
Amazing一周回ってまたシンプルな音楽作って欲しいギター一本で
gets me all the time😳
The way his voice cracks actually makes it better.
Love this
Ich liebe diesen Song! Masterpiece♥️
Acoustic version's only version
wow, eyeseared, you are so right on. sad but true.....
Anyone know why the lyrics were changed to “kitten smile” instead of “kiss and smile”?
sounds so good live
Thom: "a song that really didn't see much of a light of day for a long time and then.. sort of did but.. kind of needs to do it more"
also Thom: proceeds to not release the song for another 13 years
I'm happy To bé Blessed
@PimpBrovasTV no pro, I only mentioned it because 'Best of' albums can sometimes slip under the radar if you've collected a bands stuff since they started. Tracks like this can be enhanced by the imperfections of a live show and audience participation. Having said that when Thom is on his game the quality of a live performance can seem like it's produced in a recording studio.
just enjoy it!
Todo en esta canción me recuerda a Daniel Johnston
Thom Yorke in New York
That is all....
@PimpBrovasTV The track appears in 'The Best of' well worth a look!!
I wanne be back home
Upvotes for everyone!
I think it's just about the lengths the narrator would go to to have his true love with him at that very second - up to and including the impossible. "I'm not living - I'm just killing time."
I'll drown my beliefs
To have you be in peace
I'll dress like your niece
To 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
And true love waits
In haunted attics
And true love lives
On lollipops and crisps
😭💗
pure song
it looks like he was struggling a bit in this perfomance, but the weird thing with him is that the more vulnerable it seems the harder it hits