We should be grateful that Yorke did the same with “True Love Waits.” [Listen to “True Love Waits” on Apple Music] Jill Mapes is a Brooklyn-based, Ohio-born culture writer and editor.

"True Love Waits" has always been a sad song, but the guitar version had a brightness that the studio version lacks. And that's a shame, given that this is the song many fans have been waiting for ...

the 1994 True Love Waits youth rally in Washington, D.C., where 210,000 commitment cards were displayed on the National Mall. “This was the moment,” Hester said, glancing at the photo.

But those legacies pale in comparison to that of the album's heartbreaking closer "True Love Waits," which the band first performed way back in 1995. Here's what happened over those 21 years.