I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
True love will find you in the end
You'll find out just who was your friend
Don't be sad, I know you will
But don't give up until
True love will find you in the end
This is a promise with a catch
Only if you're looking can it find you
'Cause true love is searching too
But how can it recognize you
If you don't step out into the light, the light
Don't be sad I know you will
Don't give up until
True love will find you in the end
You'll find out just who was your friend
Don't be sad, I know you will
But don't give up until
True love will find you in the end
This is a promise with a catch
Only if you're looking can it find you
'Cause true love is searching too
But how can it recognize you
If you don't step out into the light, the light
Don't be sad I know you will
Don't give up until
True love will find you in the end
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True Love Will Find You In The End Lyrics as written by Daniel Johnston
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Anyone else interpret this song to be pretty damn sad?
"True love will find you in the end You'll find out just who was your friend."
You'll know who your real friends were in the end (at your funeral) because they will be the only ones there.
"But how can it recognize you Unless you step out into the light?"
You wont find out until you step out into the light (go to heaven).
At least that's what I got out of the song. Totally amazing and sad...
I agree that this song is sad, if only because it illustrates the faulty 'black or white' reasoning of people with DJ's mental illness/attitude. You see it in many of his songs: his idealistic belief in true love, as in this song, on the one hand, and his pathologically negative view of the world, as in devil town, for example, on the other.
He can't take that boring middle path where everything is 'just ok' that for most of us makes life tolerable.
Luckily for us listeners, his take on the world makes for beautiful songs.
Agree Daniels inner beauty shines through his worldly and altered brain-mind. I think the combination of the extra sensory caused by his affliction and the power of his true self allowed for us to to peek into the fringes of another world perhaps the one we are from and return to. I can understand why Christians see Christ or perhaps a Hindu Krishna or A Bhodi Budda. For me I see the power of the Ineffible shining through our fellow human brother Daniel. As John Lennon sung. We all shine on every where all the time even before there was time and space.
This is so beautiful, the lyrics are wonderfully up lifting and challenging. I have heard several versions of this including covers and they all hit the spot. A wonderful song.
i think this is the most wonderful painful lonely overwhelming beautiful song i have ever heard
first time i heard it i thought it was a cool-naive song but far from my favorite from daniel, but after a couple of listens and reading the lyrics i just couldnt get it out of my head. Daniel is a good heart