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paranoid android. in a bar in hollywood* the centre of the western universe, standing at the bar (social drinking) after doing the talk show bit. do you want to know this ? this is what we aspire to is it ? it is dark, there is a woman opposite me o is as sociably anorexic as her poodle, she looks desolate in her make up and lost eyes, next to her her husband boyfriend is persuading a younger fleshed half his age stewardess to come back to the hills to their mansion to sample his wine. she looks t him like he’s a character in a hammer house horror. one of our friends spills a glass of wine over a vacuum packed gucci outfit complete with matching white hand bag. the witch goes crazy, we think it is fuunny. until we see the evil in her eyes. m friend is asked to leave. the gucci creature is the closest thing i have seen to the devil. the woman is possessed. i cannot sleep that night asking what we’ve got our selves into. voices talking like fax machines, hissing and spitting like demons, this is the master race. and now im part of it. anyway you didnt want to know that. motion picture the pulsing of a life support system . that’s as far as we’ve got. lull there is nothing more dull. than talking talkin about yourself. what i meant to say. im sorry that i lost control. distracted and irrelevant. the stress and the tension. coming through the keyhole when. im in lull. transport motorways and tramlines starting and then stopping taking off and landing the emptiest of feelings disapppointed peoople clinging onto bottles and when it comes its so so disappointing. True love waits are you a virgin ? every night we are haunted it paces up and down outside my room, it talks to me in its sleep. its in the tape going round and round. it stops and starts the tape machine. goes into record when it feels like it. just let it happen. just dont leave. dont leave. it waits patiently. mum left her 8 year old locked in for a week with lollipops and crisps. she had to work or forgot or something. stanley says. you, like everyone else need to feel important.

Ed est venu confirmer la chose en relatant dans le journal qu’il tenait en ligne en 2000, pendant l’enregistrement de KID A/Amnesiac, des moments de travail.
Les extraits :

January 10 - January 19, 2000
happy new year and many many thanks to all you lovely cardsenders.

i think we all arrived at the studio with that same dread of starting where we left off.to plough back into the old tracks seemed like a daunting task. nigel suggested a different plan of action to ease us back into it over the next couple of weeks. the idea was to spend this time working in a completely different way ; no acoustic instruments ie any guitars,drums or vocals......everything has to be electronically generated. it means that we can’t fall back on what we’ve done before and forces us to work this equipment. it’s actually an incredible amount of fun - which is not something we’ve had in abundance over the last year or in studios in general. we’ve been working on four ’bits’ and because they are fairly abstract it will be interesting to review it in a few weeks. the important thing is that you are constantly learning even if something doesn’t necessarily work out. and actually it’s something we’ve been meaning to do for a while. again it’s the need to change the methodology in how you actually make the music - only by doing this will we actually produce stuff that sounds any different. and conversely by finding another approach to recording, it enthuses us in the way that we’ve worked together as a ’live’ band. the rehearsals last week were fantastic precisely because we had not picked up those instruments and recorded them.

this week we have cast the experimental net further afield to include material like ’true love waits’ and ’feeling pulled apart by horses’. the former has been kicking around for about four years now and each time we approached it we seemed to be going down the same old paths.........it actually sounds like the start of something exciting now.

did an interesting band version of ’bombers’ which thom has attached to what i used to call ’the neil young’ song...we may play it some time later this evening.

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February 9, 2000
put ’true love waits’ up again....this is a song which has been kicking around for four years or so, in fact we recorded a version of it when we were making the last album and this is something like approach number 561. but it is a great song.....it’s simply trying to find a way of doing it which excites us. and we may have found a way, at the very least we’ve found a new approach ........ basically the track has the same vocal melody but the chords have changed underneath it. so we’ll come back to it and see how it sounds. it may of course be utter crap and we have so lost the plot on this song...............please don’t let that be the case........

Pas de version studio sur les 2 nouvels albums qui suivirent ces déclaration... juste une version live sur I Might Be Wrong Live Recordings.

En 2002, le 27 octobre, Thom l’a rejouée lors d’un concert de soutien, le Bridgeschool Benefit Concert :

En 2004, quelques artworks disséminés sur le site officiel rappelait toujours la phrase fétiche de beaucoup de fans de la chanson :

En 2006, Stanley Donwood semblait toujours avoir en tête cette magnifique chanson, puisqu’au détour d’une de ses illustrations pour Dead Children Playing, le catalogue de son exposition à Barcelone on retrouve des références à la chanson.

Durant le même été, le groupe s’est servi de la chanson comme intro pour « Everything In Its Right Place » (plutôt que la radio) à plusieurs reprises...

et depuis bah, on espère toujours !