Thom Yorke - The Present Tense (Latitude 2009)

[@PatrickCrawfordVideo]

For 15 years I keep coming back to this performance. It’s so fucking good. The debut, and Thoms best rendition of it. The final version on AMSP is nice, but this is better.

[@Detox4ua]

I guess the ones who might realize the meaning of this song have found it as a masterpiece..

[@c0olking]

i also liked the song before i learned about the whirl ahem i mean world

[@ericnickols9471]

@Amparo Miranda The start passes through our hard and heavy hearts with melancholy, and that's a brief moment before something great happens. He's dancing in chaos. lost in love, driven by it, and the meaning is ... being lost in love is beautiful ... it's everything.

[@jack-uv6mt]

@Amparo Miranda the song means whatever you want it to mean.

[@jakeyboy2929]

@@jack-uv6mtexactly. Like all good lyrics and songs should. They are left to interpretation

[@yohanesflores4515]

3:17 😊 beautiful moment 🥺 💛🌻

[@barnacleboy2957]

I teared up at just how amazing this song is

[@jared05]

This dance This dance It's like a weapon It's like a weapon Of self defense Self defense Against the present Against the present Present tense I won't get heavy Don't get heavy Keep it light and Keep it moving I am doing No harm As my world Comes crashing down I'm dancing Freaking out Deaf, dumb, and blind In you I'm lost In you I'm lost I won't turn around when the penny drops I won't stop now I won't slack off Or all this love Will be in vain Stop from falling Down a mine It's no one's business but mine That all this love Has been in vain In you I'm lost In you I'm lost In you I'm lost In you I'm lost

[@matthaze30]

Amazing song. But I'm pretty sure the first 2 lines are "Distance", not "This dance". But don't fret...even Google has the wrong lyrics posted. Also, I thought he was saying "This dance" for a while as well.

[@jared05]

@@matthaze30 It dose sound like either or I did take it from whatever was on google. Amazing song either way!

[@matthaze30]

@@jared05 couldn't agree more.

[@mehmetaliertorer5819]

@@matthaze30 im pretty sure it is "this dance"

[@realbanger]

@@matthaze30 Distance is like a weapon

[@suzycat2026]

Every time I hear this song I feel some type of deja vu. 💫 Maybe we've all been here before? In this song, like Thom was when writing it. All I know , is it hits me in a deeply primal memory sense, the bossa nova beat is beautiful, his voice , those lyrics! Every time it's better 💜💞🌹🐱♏♉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💫

[@suzycat2026]

Oh be still my beating heart 😥💜 First time I've seen Thom sing this alone ♡ He's in floods of tears at the end ♡ I just want to reach across space & time to hug him close, tell him it's ok to feel sad. His words & music have helped so many of us. I know he has gone thru some painful life experiences, so glad to know he's happily married to Dajana Roncione, beautiful Italian lady. > I wish them both many years of love & many children.x 🐱♏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💫

[@kllalal1130]

Es muy cálida está versión, tan linda y se pude sentir completamente. ☺️☺️

[@bobbyboykenyon4444]

very special. shows how immense song is stripped down! genius!

[@klaatubaradanikto1490]

he has such a lovely energy

[@originalangel_]

I feel this song in my soul

[@heisenrizz]

Do you feel its love to the core

[@malic6miz6r]

te kiero mucho tomas jorquera

[@user-vh3co7zc7o]

I wish they would release it like this

[@jonathansanchez9485]

We need to clon this man and show him all Yorke's videos so he can be the closest thing to ever have as Thom.

[@jacoboviola4383]

So so good sweet ,beautiful wow what an alien

[@carlos4886]

Simply masterpiece x

[@jeremycrichton1679]

This is so mental ❤

[@lourdescruz9753]

masterpiece 💞

[@isabelpalacios7372]

❤️ Hermosa version 😍

[@andrescortez3395]

Lo mejor que he visto

[@mikeprice25]

It's a shame no performance or the recorded version hasn't bested this

[@klowndogrock]

Cmon, don't get heavy. Keep it light. 💯

[@rzimer]

The CR-78 version is the best.

[@PawelPetrovith]

Если музыка это религия, то это Бог..

[@gregorykrug8034]

I contend that this is the greatest Radiohead song ever. Fight me!

[@kebab_boi]

I literally prefer this version over the album version. I love the rawness of this one, makes it feel more intimate and genuine. The studio version sounds way too polished but I get it, it has to work with the rest of the production from the album.

[@lekayro2170]

the thom jonny and cr78 version is one of the most beautiful thing i've ever heard

[@kebab_boi]

@@lekayro2170 funny enough my friend told me to check that one out (like a few days ago). And yeah I agree it’s absolutely beautiful

[@novaesdanni]

3:17 😪😪😪😪

[@AnaRamos-nu8gp]

I would like

[@Imnothere6366]

I'm doing no harm

[@AnaRamos-nu8gp]

🥰😍🤩❤

[@dylanplatas8869]

What did he say before start?

[@bHindOfficialTM]

Something about friends hahaha I don't know

[@max_mittler]

some guy from the crowd yells something annoying. thom says :do you do this to all your friends? that is, if you have any" boom roasted.

[@DanyalElia]

best version ..... probably the best it will ever be because when it reaches the studio, thom will messed the song up with all the loop and stuff..

[@relaxedphylax]

You are so wrong.

[@antoniocarvalho2730]

oldschool syndrome

[@habiburrahmanEQ]

Ahah. That actually did not happen this song. But then .. true love waits album version was a buzzkill:/

[@juliananicole1880]

habiburrahman EQ yeah I dislike the amsp version of true love waits:(

[@radiofloyd2359]

@@habiburrahmanEQ Yeah... Well the original never really stuck with me anyway... In any case, the one that made me saddest was Fog (again). It just doesn't sound good. Not when compared to the original versions (only listened the studio versions, to be fair...).

[@WestBronDon007]

When scientist

[@jessicabrum9200]

I thought this song was for rachel my life is a lie

[@ruilopes00]

Me too. Was absolutely convinced

[@jessicabrum9200]

@@sodoffbaldrick well I thought the song was about divorce but they only divorce in 2016 so I dont know 🤷‍♀️

[@fredmich6756]

Les poils se dressent sur l echine de l univers

[@ffsf739]

The most beautiful song he's ever written. Too bad they've fucked it up on the album.

[@julienz2024]

What are you on about mate? how did they fuck it up on the album?

[@radiofloyd2359]

Why does everyone like the vanilla version better than the one on album? The only difference is a small loop on certain phrases...

[@sliverbox271991]

dont get stuck in the past, old man

[@moonillusions832]

Awful opinion

[@bifecubano]

trash take